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J.P. Morgan Investor Services Unveils Valuations for OTC Derivatives
J.P. Morgan Investor Services has launched a valuation service for over-the-counter derivatives. The new service will allow the custodian’s clients to value instruments ranging from vanilla interest-rate swaps to the most exotic structured derivatives. The service is based on Reech FastVal, a derivatives valuations and risk management system from SunGard Reech.
GSTPA Technology Assets to Be Auctioned Off Next Month
The technology assets of the failed GSTPA post-trade processing consortium are to be auctioned by liquidators in Switzerland on September 10. The auction will be handled by Buergi & Naegeli, and interested parties are invited to contact the firm’s Zurich offices. Developers of centralized trade processing utilities, including Financial Models Co., Omgeo and SunGard have…
ValueLink to Offer EuroMTS Delayed Price Data
ValueLink Information Services is to offer delayed price information from the EuroMTS trading platform for European benchmark government bonds. The company has become the first to secure a delayed data license for from EuroMTS.
NFS Unveils Data Interface for Pricing Services
Nordic Financial Systems (NFS), a provider of technical and business integration services to the treasury industry, has launched Market Information Interface, which allows users of its Finance KIT to receive end-of-day pricing data from vendors including Reuters and Bloomberg for portfolio valuation and risk measurement purposes. According to NFS, MII – developed in conjunction with…
Pool-Side Reading for Reference Data Ravers
Your publisher and editor are honoured this issue to be carrying contributions from two of the leading lights of the reference data community. In what will become a regular feature, Tony Kirby, founder of the Reference Data User Group (RDUG) brings us completely up to date with the workings of the various standards working groups….
U.K. Asset Manager Insight Set to Go Live with Citadel’s Data Management Platform
U.K. asset management firm Insight Investment is about to go live with a reference data management infrastructure from Citadel Associates. The implementation will make Citadel’s Cadis the data management infrastructure underpinning Insight’s growing derivatives operations. Insight – formed through a merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and the subsequent acquisition of Rothschild Asset Management…
ADP Brokerage Services Teams with Xcitek for Corporate Actions
ADP’s Brokerage Services Group (BSG) has launched an automated corporate actions processing system based on XcitekSolutionsPlus’s XSP platform. The new system is part of BPS’s back-office processing offering, and features a data-scrubbing engine for exception-handling. The engine compares announcement data from multiple sources and identifies exceptions, publishing them to BPS and offering managers an overall…
Nicholas-Applegate Opts for XSP Platform
Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management has licensed XcitekSolutionsPlus’s XSP platform for corporate actions processing, its corporate actions data, its Swift messaging functionality and the Electronic Tracking Response and Notifications system for notification and response capture. “After evaluating the software vendors in the marketplace,” Christopher P. Siriani, director of operations at Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management, “we found that XcitekSolutionsPlus…
Cicada Upgrades Rules Management on Composer
Cicada has upgraded the validation rules management capabilities of its reference data management platform, adding a graphical user interface allowing users to create, modify, delete or add business rules to data sources, both internal and external. The upgrade also adds a rights system for security, permissioning and modifying existing business rules. Finally, a new rules…
In Search of the King of Holy Grails: ROI
Return on investment is a recurring theme in reference data management. And the reason seems to be that no one can figure out how to measure it. Recent issues of Reference Data Review have been littered with references – excuse the pun – to the importance of managing expectations with respect to ROI on enterprise-wide…