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Invesco PowerShares Utilises Interactive Data
Invesco PowerShares is using Interactive Data’s Fair Value Information Service and Basket Calculation Service as inputs to the valuation processes for its exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The Basket Calculation Service provides the IOPVs for Invesco PowerShares’ new municipal bond ETFs. It uses Interactive Data’s real-time fixed-income valuations, real-time equity pricing and interest rate data to calculate…
Fitch Launches Pricing Service for Asset-Backed Credit Default Swaps to Meet Growing Demand
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…
The Sun Sets For Larry, Rises For Others?
It’s been a while I know, but this blogging business just keeps getting pushed to the bottom of the list. My thanks then to “Uncle” Tom Groenfeldt for alerting me on his blog to the recent departure from Sun Microsystems of Larry Scott, where he was vice president for financial services. Larry is going somewhere,…
Disparate Markets and Complex Trading Call for Smarter Exceptions Management – Contributed by Coexis
Disparate markets and complex trading call for smarter exceptions management, argues Donal O’Brien, business development director of Coexis. If Societe Generale’s reference data systems had been a bit wiser to the activities of its users, could the actions of Jerome Kerviel and the French bank’s subsequent £3.7bn loss have been avoided? The need for increasingly…
Fitch Solutions Launches ABCDS Pricing
In order to meet the growing demand for an independent source of pricing data that covers the global ABS product spectrum, Fitch Solutions has launched Fitch ABCDS Pricing to complement its existing single name CDS and Loan CDS services. Fitch ABCDS Pricing includes coverage of over 7,500 ABCDS combining consensus pricing for liquid issues with benchmarking…
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…