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Markit to Launch Multi-Dealer Valuations Platform
UK market data vendor Markit Group is working with six Wall Street banks to launch a global, multi-bank, cross-asset client valuations platform. The Markit Valuations Manager platform will provide electronic delivery of daily OTC derivative and consensus cash valuations from Citi, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch and UBS alongside Markit’s own independent valuations….
Standard & Poor’s to Provide Counterparty Data Feed to Siperian MDM Hub
Standard & Poor’s is providing a counterparty data feed to Siperian’s master data management (MDM) Hub, enabling Siperian customers to view relationships between securities, issuers, parents and subsidiaries for better risk analysis and operational management. With the combination of Siperian’s master data management platform and Standard & Poor’s security and legal entity data feed, Security…
NYSE Euronext Unveils Independent Valuation Service Prime Source
NYSE Euronext (NYX) has launched Prime Source, a new independent valuation service. This solution is designed to meet professional buy side market participants’ needs for valuation of large, global portfolios of complex structured products and illiquid securities. Prime Source enables users to access prices and valuations from different sources, including markets, dealer contributions and valuation…
Lombard Risk Sells Independent Valuation and Risk Services Subsidiary to Liffe
Lombard Risk Management, provider of regulatory, risk management and valuation software for the financial sector, has sold its wholly owned subsidiary Independent Valuation and Risk Services (IVRS) to Liffe (Holdings), the subsidiary of NYSE Euronext, for a consideration of some £700,000 plus a deferred consideration element to be calculated based on actual revenues that are…
Asset Control Adds London Stock Exchange, eMBS, Thomson Financial Coverage
Asset Control has expanded the data coverage of its centralised reference and financial data management solutions through additional data feed and normalisation library interfaces with the London Stock Exchange, eMBS and Thomson Financial. The new interfaces, which bring the number of Asset Control’s off-the-shelf interfaces to more than 30, provide additional data coverage for the…
B.I.S.S. Creates New Corporate Actions Systems Awards
B.I.S.S. Research, which provides benchmarking of services and systems in the financial services sector, has launched four new awards for the best corporate actions systems for broker/dealers, asset managers, custodians and overall sector winner. The awards will run in parallel to the existing B.I.S.S. Accreditation process for corporate actions systems. Gary Wright, CEO, B.I.S.S. Research,…
Asset Control Appoints John Mitchell to Lead North American Sales
Asset Control has appointed John Mitchell as North American sales director based in New York. In his new role Mitchell will be responsible for generating new business and expanding Asset Control’s regional presence for its centralised reference and financial data management solution for financial institutions. Prior to joining Asset Control, Mitchell was vice president of…
FISD Releases MDDL Open Source Licence
The Financial Information Services Division of the Software and Information Industry Association (FISD) has released a new MDDL 3.0 Open Source licence for the financial information industry. MDDL, or Market Data Definition Language, is an open industry standard XML dialect for securities market data. The announcement of the new licence aims to remove possible ambiguity…
DataSynapse, Informatica Partner on Joint Solution
DataSynapse and Informatica have released a joint solution which combines the DataSynapse FabricServer software with the Informatica PowerCenter software to create what is described as an agile, scalable and manageable data integration environment for global corporations. DataSynapse will also begin reselling Informatica’s PowerCenter Enterprise Grid Option.
Netik Targets Service Model with Capco Reference Data Services Buy, Symphony as New Majority Investor
Data warehouse provider Netik has completed a buyout of its business from The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and simultaneously acquired Capco Reference Data Services (CRDS) from Capco. Netik is now pursuing a vision of transforming from a purely software business into a software and service business, bringing together the CRDS capability to scrub…