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Reuters Aims to Price 100 Per Cent of Customers’ Derivatives Holdings
Reuters’ recently announced service for delivering bespoke valuations for derivatives and complex securities formalises an activity the vendor has been testing for a couple of years, and reflects a recognition that firms increasingly want to offload the valuations burden on to a third party. Reuters has been providing bespoke evaluations to some clients for two…
Avox, GoldenSource Forge Strategic Alliance
Avox, the business entity data specialist, and GoldenSource, provider of enterprise data management solutions, have entered a strategic partnership that they say will allow firms to utilise fully verified and ‘’stress-tested’’ business entity data across their entire organisations. Mutual clients will now be able to easily integrate the Avox business entity data service with the…
Enterprise Data Management Top Core Technology Implementation Project for 2008, Aite Says
A new report from Aite Group that examines IT spending by capital markets firms says operational efficiency remains the top priority for the year among technology executives allocating budgets for IT initiatives. While risk management, systems integration, back office settlement and front office workstations will be the top systems priorities, enterprise data management projects will…
Exchange Data International Adds Structured Products to Worldwide Corporate Action Service
Exchange Data International (EDI), specialist in the aggregation of reference and corporate actions data, has integrated structured products into its Worldwide Corporate Actions database. This is the latest addition made by EDI to its services since electing to go head to head with London Stock Exchange by sourcing its own corporate actions data. Jonathan Bloch,…
LakeFront Data Ventures Adds Ian Mathers as Associate Partner
LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV) says Ian Mathers has joined the LDV Data Management Partner Program as a LakeFront associate partner. He will be concentrating his efforts on project management and implementation and process engineering and improvement. Mathers was most recently with Royal Bank of Canada as a senior IT/data partner in Credit Risk, Ops Risk…
Vaerdipapircentralen (VP) Transfers Nordic Clients to Telekurs Financial
Telekurs Financial has signed an agreement with Vaerdipapircentralen (VP), Denmark’s Central Security Administration, to take on the clients of VP Financial Information products in the Nordic markets. VP has so far acted as a partner of Telekurs Financial in the Nordic markets. This will now be handled by Telekurs-owned SIX AB. Since 2002, Vaerdipapircentralen (VP)…
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…