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Standard & Poor’s Adds IVRS OTC Derivatives Valuations
In line with its strategy to extend its valuations offering into the OTC derivatives area, Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations (SPSE) has entered into an agreement with Independent Valuation and Risk Services (IVRS) under which the two companies will provide their valuations to each other’s clients. To date, SPSE has provided its asset-backed securities (ABS)/mortgage-backed…
Omgeo Releases Alert Plus For Bulk SSI Upload Capability
Post-trade, pre-settlement trade management services provider Omgeo, the joint venture company of DTCC and Thomson Financial, has released and signed up the first users for Omgeo Alert Plus. This new feature set within the Omgeo Alert web based database for the maintenance and communication of standing settlement and account instructions is designed to give high…
New Head of ICMA Ltd Milne Predicts Data Aggregation Role
As a collector of data, the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) will play an important role in helping the industry deal with the increased reporting requirements, need for greater transparency and greater requirement for accurate data in a post-MiFID/Basel II European marketplace, believes the new managing director of ICMA Ltd, Kevin Milne. The changes to…
Raymond James & Associates Takes DTCC’s Scrubbed CA Data
Raymond James & Associates has signed up for DTCC’s Global Corporate Action Validation Service (GCA VS), its centralised source of corporate actions announcements for equities and fixed income instruments traded in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. The firm becomes one of the more than 20 users of GCA VS, which in 2006 provided almost 900,000…
Trio of Ex-SunGard Data Experts Offers EDM Consulting
In a reunion of ex-SunGard executives, data veterans Marc Odho and Rob Ord have joined Dale Richards to launch the LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV) Consulting Group. Richards is CEO of the company, which he says is already engaged in enterprise data management assignments in both the vendor and client spaces. Odho and Ord, made redundant…
DSEL Picks FinArch Over GoldenSource for Positions
Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe Limited (DSEL), the UK based investment banking joint venture owned by Daiwa Securities Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, has begun the implementation of the Financial Studio finance resource planning software from Financial Architects (FinArch). The implementation of the financial database is the second phase of DSEL’s far reaching project to…
Emirates Bank Deploys Quantifi XL For Structured Credit Pricing
US analytics vendor Quantifi has signed up its first Dubai based client. Emirates Bank has taken Quantifi XL as a front office tool for pricing and analysing structured credit products. Quantifi XL is designed to provide access to pricing and risk analysis of credit products from within Excel, and is targeted at banks, hedge funds,…
Lewtan Technologies Signs DBRS to ABSNet
Credit rating agency Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS) is to use Lewtan Technologies’ ABSNet and ABSNet Cash Flows services to help strengthen its presence in the European structured finance market. “ABSNet Cash Flows gives us the ability to accurately model the asset cash flows and note payment rules, which allows us to test each tranche…
Xcitek Completes Swift Testing For Corporate Actions
Xcitek has successfully completed testing of ISO messages submitted by its flagship software, XSP, to Swift’s Corporate Actions Test and Certification Proof of Concept (POC) programme. In an effort to improve the quality of FIN Corporate Actions messages and overall STP, the Swift POC tested the validity of ISO messages submitted by participants to comply…
Telekurs Financial Bridges the Gap between Europe and Asia
Telekurs Financial has signed a cooperation agreement with Telenet Systems of Dubai to service clients in the Arabic-speaking markets in the MENA (Middle East & North Africa) regions. Up to now, clients in the MENA region were covered by a number of different Telekurs subsidiaries. Under the terms of the agreement with Telekurs Financial, Telenet…