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One View on Transparency
By Douglas Long, executive vice president of business strategy at Principia Whether looking at structured finance operations within commercial banks, or the exposure of these portfolios on the wider enterprise, markets or economy, the crisis has demonstrated there is room for improvement for everyone at this time of transition. The current financial crisis has highlighted…
European Parliament and Council Approve Commission’s Ratings Agencies Regulations
The European Parliament and the European Council have both approved the recently proposed regulation on credit ratings agencies, tabled by the European Commission earlier this year. The new regulation will put in place a common regulatory regime for the issuance of credit ratings with a view to restoring market confidence in the sector and increasing…
JSCC and Tokyo Financial Exchange Plan Introduction of IRS and CDS CCP
The Japan Securities Clearing Corporation (JSCC) and the Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) have confirmed that they are both planning to introduce clearing for credit derivatives this year, in the form of interest rate swaps (IRSs) and credit default swaps (CDSs). Both parties have been planning the move for around six months and are currently in…
Charles River Development Integrates IMS with Thomson Reuters’ Market Data System
Charles River Development has integrated its Investment Management System (IMS) with the Thomson Reuters Market Data System, including its real-time exchange, contributed and reference data. Charles River has integrated the data to provide its clients with seamless access to the Thomson Reuters offering and thus allow for greater flexibility and choice of data providers for…
Markit Appoints Ex-NewOak Capital Exec McPherson as MD of Structured Pricing Services
Markit has appointed ex-NewOak Capital executive, Neil McPherson, as a managing director in its New York office to manage and expand its structured finance pricing services. Prior to working for the New York-based asset management firm, McPherson was head of ABN Amro’s asset backed securities syndicate desk and managing director at Credit Suisse First Boston,…
Avox Partners with Markit Document Exchange to Provide Combined Offering
Following the announcement of its partnership with EDM vendor Asset Control in February, business entity data specialist Avox has signed another partnership agreement, this time with Markit’s documentation management platform. Under the new agreement, Markit Document Exchange and Avox will work together to provide their mutual clients with a combined business entity data and documentation…
Hexaware Technologies Partners with Greenplum for Data Warehousing and Analytics Offering
Data management outsourcing vendor Hexaware Technologies has signed a partnership agreement with database software vendor Greenplum, under which the two will collaborate to produce a new data warehousing and large scale analytic processing solution. Greenplum will provide the database platform and Hexaware will focus on the migration, implementation, upgrades and maintenance services for the offering,…
Cadis Acquires Compliance Reporting Software Vendor C8 Software
EDM vendor Cadis has acquired management information and compliance reporting software provider C8 Software in a bid to combine the two vendors’ offerings and meet clients’ reporting and risk data requirements. Daniel Simpson, CEO of Cadis Software, explains that the new offering is aimed at cleaning up what he sees as often poor quality data…
Rigel Capital Rolls Out FundWorks Global’s FundReports6 to Automate Reporting Process
Seattle-based institutional asset management firm Rigel Capital has gone live with FundReports6, FundWorks Global’s enterprise client communications and reporting platform, to meet its institutional reporting requirements. The firm decided to replace its previously manual monthly and quarterly institutional reporting process in order to speed up report production and reduce the risks in the process, says…
GBST Adds Coexis’ Williams to Exec Team as Chairman of European Ops
Following the completion of its acquisition of Coexis last year, Australian securities services technology vendor GBST has appointed Coexis’ executive chairman, Terry Williams, to its executive team as chairman of its European operations. He will also act as an advisor to the board of directors and will focus on growing the vendor’s operations in the…