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CME Credit Market Analysis Buy Gives Exchange Greater OTC Exposure, CMA New Sales Channel
The acquisition of credit derivatives data specialist Credit Market Analysis (CMA) by derivatives exchange CME Group is positioned as enabling CME to grow its activities in the OTC credit derivatives market, and as generating opportunities to combine the CMA data services with CME’s trade execution and clearing capabilities to create new offerings for the marketplace…
… And Adds Time Series to Valordata Feed
Telekurs Financial is introducing VDF Time Series as part of the Valordata Feed (VDF) data offering. Up until now, only daily valuation prices for various price types have been supplied through Telekurs Financial’s Valordata Feed. With the new VDF Time Series service, however, complete time series will now be included in VDF. With the time…
Telekurs Introduces Standard Interface Between VDF And Eagle’s EDM System…
Telekurs has introduced a standard interface between its Valordata Feed (VDF) and Eagle Investment Systems’ data management solution. Eagle’s solution is a data management platform that provides connectivity and data integration from numerous sources and consolidates it in one location. The Valordata Feed delivers information from Telekurs’ database of structured, encoded securities information. Covering 4…
Life’s not fair…
Well it had to happen eventually: the whinging by some of the financial institutions making significant write-downs that it’s the accounting standards that are to blame, not any shortcoming on their part in allowing themselves to become dangerously over-exposed to instruments they didn’t properly understand. Accusations that “fair value” accounting standards are making the credit…
Buy Side EDM Demand Holding Up, New-Look Cadis Software Claims
The evolution of the buy side EDM specialist formerly known as Citadel Associates that was set in train by the departure of managing director Jean Williams and the company’s acquisition by a group of seasoned financial technology investors mid-last year has culminated in its renaming as Cadis Software. As the vendor assumes the name of…
Capgemini Majors on Flexibility for Reference Data Outsourcing
Capgemini’s recently announced reference data management (RDM) services, which include business process outsourcing (BPO), are differentiated from competitive offerings by their flexibility, the consulting, technology and outsourcing provider claims. Capgemini will not be saying to clients, “here’s a solution – take it or leave it”, according to Saleel Nair, its global leader of reference data…
Petercam Live with Sterci’s KEYdata for Centralising Data Management
STP software vendor Sterci says Benelux-based private banking and asset management institution Petercam has been using its KEYdata solution for reference data management since January 2008. KEYdata is being used by the Petercam Group for centralising reference data on market instruments. The data received from various sources is controlled, validated and sometimes aggregated before being…
CME Acquires Credit Data Specialist CMA
The acquisition of credit derivatives data specialist Credit Market Analysis (CMA) by derivatives exchange CME Group is positioned as enabling CME to grow its activities in the OTC credit derivatives market, and as generating opportunities to combine the CMA data services with CME’s trade execution and clearing capabilities to create new offerings for the marketplace…
XSP Appoints Charles Watkins Managing Director, Chief Financial Officer
XSP, provider of corporate actions software, has appointed Charles Watkins managing director and chief financial officer. Prior to joining XSP, Watkins owned and operated Sylacauga Health & Rehab Services, a nursing home and assisted living facility.
Principal Global Investors Implements CADIS in 11 Weeks
Cadis Software, formerly Citadel Associates, the provider of enterprise data management (EDM) systems specifically targeting the buy side, says Principal Global Investors has gone live with the Cadis EDM suite, after an implementation taking just 11 weeks. This follows the announcement late last year that the investment manager had selected the solution. The data management…