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Misys Integrates Markit’s Loan Pricing Service into Loan IQ
Misys has achieved certified alliance partner status under Markit’s certification programme and has integrated Markit’s loan pricing service into Misys Loan IQ, its commercial lending solution. The combined offering will enable mutual clients of the two companies to automatically price loans from the Misys Loan IQ platform. As a result of the integration mutual clients…
Carnegie Bank Picks SuperDerivatives for Equity Derivatives Valuation
SuperDerivatives, provider of options pricing and a multi-asset derivatives platform for revaluation and risk management, has been chosen by Nordic bank Carnegie Investment Bank AB to perform independent valuation services for its equity derivatives portfolio. Per Jutemar, group operational risk manager at Carnegie, says the choice to use SuperDerivatives Revaluation Center is part of a…
LakeFrontData adds former Capco Reference Data Executive to Advisory Board
Former executive vice president of Capco Reference Data Services, Predrag Dizdarevic, has joined LakeFrontData’s advisory council and his company, KonsultLab LLC, has joined LakeFront Data Ventures’ Data Management Partner Program. LakeFrontData has stated that it is collaborating with Dizdarevic, who is currently an independent consultant, on “a number of data management market opportunities and client…
Eagle Launches Version 9.0 with Improved Workflow And Data Management
Eagle Investment Systems has released a new version of its software aimed at improving workflow and usability in its data management offering. Eagle Version 9.0 includes a redesigned rules editor and features such as the ability to handle multi-leg swaps for derivatives, a pricing option for direct access to pricing information and the ability to…
Markit Launches Counterparty/Compliance Documentation Library
Data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing vendor Markit has launched a new documentation library that allows financial institutions to post, manage and share compliance, counterparty credit and regulatory documents securely. Called Markit Document Exchange, the new service automates KYC, anti-money laundering and compliance certification processes in order to reduce risk and lower operational…
Interactive Data Launches Class Actions Service Option Mapped to the ISO 15022 Format
Interactive Data has launched its class actions service mapped to the ISO 15022 format as an optional module of FTS, Interactive Data’s securities administration tool. The service is part of the vendor’s Pricing and Reference Data business and is designed to help institutions track, monitor and recover funds resulting from securities class action litigation. The…
SEC to Mandate Adoption of XBRL Financial Reporting For Large Publicly Listed US Firms
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued rules requiring large publicly held US companies to adopt extensible business reporting language (XBRL) for their financial reporting by 15 December. This follows the SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting’s report, released in February, which recommended that companies should use XBRL to tag their financial…
A question of semantics
It has been all go on the standards front this month, what with the release of the “industry roadmap”, ongoing discussions on the future of the business entity identifier (BEI) and a veritable cartload of progress updates from the EDM Council. The buzzword of the moment seems to have quietly become “interoperability”, rather than “convergence”,…
Introduction of BEI Beyond Industry’s Level of Maturity, Research Warns
Regardless of an understanding of the benefits of introducing a standard business entity identifier (BEI), the industry is as yet unconvinced that the cost of its introduction is justifiable. That is the message that the EDM Council, consultancy firm Bearingpoint and Swift heard loud and clear during interviews conducted with 15 international financial institutions as…
DIFC’s DClear Releases Plans for Reference Data Utility
DClear, the wholly owned subsidiary of the investment arm of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), has released plans for a reference data utility for the global financial market. The aim of the project is to provide a shared copy of reference data among financial market participants on both the buy and sell sides. It…