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SuperDerivatives Adds Liquidation ‘Exit’ Pricing Revaluation Services
Following developments over the past year, SuperDerivatives has released its new liquidation ‘Exit’ pricing to address the financial risk in OTC options in current market conditions. The firm made the move following growing client demand identified in discussions with customers, who are seeking more realistic pricing in light of current market conditions. Starting with initial…
Fitch Launches Pricing Service for Asset-Backed Credit Default Swaps
Fitch Solutions last month launched a new pricing service for asset-backed credit default swaps (ABCDSs). The new services is aimed at meeting what Fitch sees as growing demand for independent pricing that covers the ABS product spectrum. As such, the company is pitching the new service as complementary to its existing single-name credit-default swap and…
NYSE Euronext’s Liffe to Expand Use of Markit Dividend Forecasts in Pricing, Clearing Services
NYSE Euronext’s Liffe derivatives exchange is to broaden the range of consensus dividend forecasts from Markit it uses in its indicative options pricing model and in Bclear, its trade confirmation, administration and clearing service for wholesale equity derivatives. Liffe will expand the population of Markit dividend forecasts to cover predicted dividend amounts and due dates…
Brewin Dolphin Opts for Zoomix Accelerator for Instrument, Client Data Management
UK private client investment manager Brewin Dolphin has implemented Zoomix’s Accelerator enterprise data management platform to automate the matching, standardization and classification of hundreds of thousands of customer and financial data records. Accelerator is a so-called ‘self-learning’ data management platform that analyzes the relationships and meanings relevant to any data domain by observing decisions made…
Counterparty data just got more interesting…
Although financial institutions have had teams of people managing and cleansing entity data for decades, when CounterpartyLink was founded in 2005 the practice of turning to external sources for cleansed entity data and verification of one’s own data was a relatively new concept. Identified by backers Investors Guaranty and data platform provider Cicada as a…
F&C Becomes Latest To Join In Live Implementation of Cadis EDM Suite
Cadis Software’s flurry of client announcements continued this month with the news that F&C Investments had completed its implementation of the Cadis EDM Suite in support of its Charles River Development trading platform. The F&C news follows hot on the heels of last month’s announcement that Principal Global Investors had installed Cadis EDM to create…
Cicada Spins Off CounterpartyLink to Investors Guaranty Global Alliance
Following several months of market speculation, CounterpartyLink has been sold by parent Cicada Cos to a group of investors led by Andover Capital, part of the Zurich-based specialist fund Investors Guaranty Global Alliance (IGGA). The deal places CPL among a number of financial content and technology investments already owned by IGGA and the Investors Guaranty…
FactSet Acquires a Copy of Thomson Fundamentals Database
Thomsom Reuters is to sell a copy of the Thomson Fundamental database to FactSet Research Systems, provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications to the global investment community. The deal will include copies of the database, source data, collection software, documentation and collection training materials, as well as the potential for FactSet to acquire…
LaCrosse Global Fund Services Selects CMA DataVision for Independent Valuation Service
CMA, the credit information specialist recently acquired by CME Group, has signed LaCrosse Global Fund Services as a client for its consensus-based price verification data, DataVision, as a key component of LaCrosse’s valuation service for global clients. With 10 global offices in major and emerging markets, LaCrosse provides operations, middle-office and fund administration services to…
SuperDerivatives Names Baker Head of Sales, UK, Ireland, Middle East and Africa
SuperDerivatives has appointed Stephen Baker as head of sales for the UK, Ireland, Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining SuperDerivatives, Baker served as head of the Hedge Fund Consulting Practice at Accenture, which he established in the UK. His experience also includes senior sales management positions at Bloomberg in London and New York. Baker…