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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…
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Interactive Data Provides Daily Evaluations for GNMA Serial Notes
Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data business has begun providing daily evaluations for Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) Serial Notes backed by 100 per cent Puerto Rico collateral, based on its experience in producing evaluations for global fixed income instruments. Interactive Data will initially provide evaluations for nearly 37,000 Serial Notes, and plans to…
Always look on the bright side of life…
2008 will be the year when we see how serious firms are about reference data. This is a phrase I’ve borrowed from a leading industry observer because I think it aptly sums up the general thinking of those involved in reference data as the new year kicks off. Without wishing to be unnecessarily gloomy, the…
Desjardins Cleans Up Entity Data, Deploys SunGard Adaptiv Credit Risk
Desjardins Group has signed a three-year deal with CounterpartyLink for the provision of legal entity data as part of a larger counterparty and issuer risk project that will also see Desjardins – the biggest co-operative financial group in Canada – implement SunGard Adaptiv Credit Risk. CounterpartyLink’s data will first be used by Desjardins to ensure…