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Aegon Asset Management Extends Use of Markit’s Enterprise Data Management Platform
Aegon Asset Management is extending its use of Markit’s enterprise data management (EDM) platform beyond the UK with implementations of the software at other business operations in the US and the Netherlands. Initial plans show four separate installations of the software, one each in the UK and US, and two in the Netherlands. These will…
NYSE Euronext Subsidiary Takes Over Administration of Libor
NYSE Euronext subsidiary NYSE Euronext Rate Administration has been selected ahead of the London Stock Exchange as the new administrator of Libor. The transfer of administration of the benchmark from BBA Libor, a subsidiary of the British Bankers’ Association (BBA), follows an outbreak of attempts to manipulate Libor for financial gain last year and is…
OpenGamma Tackles Market Structure Change and Regulation with Platform 2.0 Risk Management
OpenGamma has responded to changes in OTC derivatives market structure and rising regulatory demand for advanced risk management with a second version of its open source analytics and risk management platform, OpenGamma Platform 2.0. The platform is available today and builds on the first version of the software that was released in April 2012. It…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Is Lance Uggla the New Michael Bloomberg?
No, he’s not running to be mayor of New York, as far as we’re aware. But he is leading a company that has pretensions for the No. 1 slot in financial information and infrastructure. That’s our conclusion from recent events at Markit, and the growing swell of talk about what’s to come in the not-too-distant…
SIX Financial Information and swissQuant Partner to Deliver Portfolio Risk Management System
SIX Financial Information has teamed up with swissQuant Group to deliver a portfolio risk management service for private banks and asset managers facing increasing regulatory requirements around risk reporting. The service is called ImpaQt and combines SIX Financial Information reference data and market data history with swissQuant’s proprietary calculation engine to provide on-demand quantitative risk…
Swedbank Robur Extends use of SimCorp Dimension to Cover Solvency II
Swedbank Robur has extended its use of SimCorp Dimension to include the software provider’s Solvency II solution. The asset manager was already using Dimension as its core investment management platform and its choice of the software for Solvency II was a natural move as the platform already includes most of the functionality required to meet…
Thomson Reuters Develops Accelus Governance, Risk and Compliance Platform
Thomson Reuters is building out its Accelus governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platform with an updated user interface for Accelus Risk Manager, additional workflow tools and further functionality including the company’s BoardLink portal, enhanced disclosure capabilities and e-learning. Thomson Reuters’ GRC business was established about three years ago, with the Accelus brand following about six…
SAS Integrates Technologies to Deliver Decision Manager Platform
SAS has pulled together existing and new technologies to deliver SAS Decision Manager, a platform that integrates predictive analytics, business rules and data management to support decision making. The platform is also being built into other SAS products with the first to host the technology being SAS High-Performance Risk. The risk solution uses the platform…
Volante Partners SwiftRef to Offer Users a Single Source of Payments Reference Data
Financial data integration specialist Volante Technologies has joined the SwiftRef partner programme, allowing its users to connect to the payments reference data utility and access datasets and query tools required to make timely and accurate payments. The companies have worked together for some years, with Volante technology offering transformation between messaging formats for over 70…
Razor Risk and Numerix Partnership Delivers Integrated Enterprise Risk Solution
TMX Group’s Razor Risk Technologies, the Australian enterprise risk provider acquired by TMX early last year, has teamed up with Numerix to strengthen its front-office capability and offer an integrated front-to-back risk solution. The Razor platform will call on Numerix’s pricing models for its credit risk, market risk and economic capital management solutions, supporting clients…