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Asset Control Adds Telekurs Valordata Feed
Asset Control says it has added Telekurs’ Valdordata Feed (VDF) content to its centralised data management solution. VDF provides reference data, corporate actions information and pricing data on more than 3 million financial instruments, with up to 10 years of historical information and up to 1500 data fields related to each instrument.
Paladyne, Reuters Expand Offering to Include Hosted Reuters DataScope Onsite
Reuters and Paladyne Systems, solutions provider for the hedge fund industry, have announced the integration of Reuters DataScope Onsite with the Paladyne suite of products. Reuters DataScope Onsite provides pricing, factors, terms and conditions, corporate actions, cashflows and analytical data on the universe of asset-backed securities including MBS, Agency Pools, Whole Loans, TBA Pools and…
NumeriX, THEMA Forge Partnership for Integrated Analytics
NumeriX, provider of pricing and risk analytics for fixed income, credit, foreign exchange, hybrids, cross currency, commodities, inflation rate and equity derivatives, has entered a partnership agreement with THEMA Consulting, provider of risk management, treasury and trading services and software. THEMA’s MasterFinance 6.0 pricing engine now bundles the latest NumeriX math libraries, enabling financial institutions…
Moody’s Buys Price Discovery, End-of-Day Pricing Provider BQuotes
Moody’s Corporation has acquired BQuotes, global provider of price discovery tools and end-of-day pricing services for fixed income securities. Terms of the transaction will not be disclosed, and the financial impact to Moody’s is not expected to be material. This follows Moody’s recent acquisition of the assets of Mergent Pricing and Evaluation Service from Xinhua…
Microgen, NumeriX, IRML Team to Support Fund Managers in Derivatives Valuations
Microgen has launched a new Microgen Aptitude-based solution in partnership with NumeriX and Independent Risk Monitoring Limited (IRML), designed to support asset managers and their service providers as they tackle the challenges related to their increasing use of OTC derivatives. The solution – Microgen Independent Valuation and Risk (IVR) – is billed as an integration…
SEI’s Ventura Joins LakeFront’s Partner Programme
Edward Ventura has joined the LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV) data management partner programme as a LakeFront associate partner. He will be focusing on expanding the LDV reference data consulting business. Most recently Ventura was senior product manager of asset data services for SEI, where he led the strategy and sourcing for redistribution and consumption of…
Trepp, Markit Partner for Transparency on Synthetic CMBSs
Trepp, provider of CMBS and commercial mortgage information, analytics and technology, and Markit, supplier of independent data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing, have forged a partnership they say will bring greater transparency and accuracy to the valuation of synthetic Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBSs). Under the agreement, Markit’s valuation input template will be integrated…
Interactive Data Ties With Financial Express for UK Funds Data
Germany-headquartered Interactive Data Corporation says its Managed Solutions group has enhanced its funds data with information supplied by UK data supplier Financial Express. The offering, which comprises data for more than 15,000 funds licensed in the UK and covers all funds classes, is available via Interactive Data Managed Solutions’ Funds Suite product. Fact sheets and…
Data Management Software Provider Siperian Bags $25M in Expansion Funding
Master data management (MDM) platform provider Siperian says it has closed an oversubscribed $25 million Series E financing. Led by new investor, Investor Growth Capital (IGC), and with participation from 100 per cent of Siperian’s existing investors, the funding will be used to continue the company’s European expansion, accelerate channel development and further advance the…
Reuters Launches Bespoke Derivatives Pricing for Hard to Value Instruments
Reuters has launched a pricing service that delivers bespoke valuations for derivatives and complex securities – Reuters DataScope Derivatives Pricing Service. Using the service, customers can request a price for bespoke transactions, with completely transparent Reuters pricing and methodology behind each valuation. The service complements Reuters DataScope Select, which already provides prices for instruments that…