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StatPro Adds Regulatory Compliance Solutions to Revolution Cloud Platform
StatPro has added a global exposure and liquidity monitoring module to the StatPro Revolution App Store. The module is designed to help asset managers meet UCITS IV regulation and is the first in series of regulatory compliance solutions being developed for the StatPro Revolution portfolio analytics cloud platform. The exposure and liquidity monitoring tool is…
Big Data and Rising Internet Use Require Innovative Reference Data Management Solutions
Big data and internet proliferation are creating great opportunities in the financial sector, but firms must move quickly to develop innovative reference data solutions if they are to take advantage of these opportunities and remain competitive. Presenting at an ISITC Europe reference data briefing, Ken Price, vice president of sales at data management specialist Strevus…
Swift Enhances SwiftRef Reference Data Utility and Plans Managed Services
Swift is building on last year’s introduction of SwiftRef, its payments reference data utility, with plans to extend web and cloud data services and develop managed services around the data it collects, cleanses, consolidates and publishes. SwiftRef went live in January 2012 and is delivering 194 data files every day to about 1,000 subscribers worldwide….
S&P Capital IQ Adds Intelligence to Hosted Portfolio Risk Solution
S&P Capital IQ will roll out a new version of its Portfolio Risk solution this week packaging risk and scenario analytics with market data and fundament data to deliver real-time risk analysis for multi-asset class portfolios. The redesigned risk solution brings together the risk and portfolio analytics expertise acquired by S&P Capital IQ with R2…
Asset Control Builds Business Development with Return of Ian Cumberpatch
Ian Cumberpatch has rejoined Asset Control as associate director of business development EMEA. He was sales director for the Asia Pacific region at Asset Control from 2009 to 2012, before moving on to ICAP, where he was head of sales, financial institutions, in the My Treasury division. He left ICAP after a year, returning to…
Markit Integrates Quartet FS ActivePivot to Deliver Real-Time Decision Support
Markit has integrated the Quartet FS ActivePivot in-memory aggregation engine into its analytics platform to offer real-time, pre-trade decision support to the front office. The addition of ActivePivot extends an initial in-house development of real-time capability to calculate pre-trade counterparty exposures on the Markit platform and will support real-time visualisation of risk calculations including risk…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Valuations (Part 3)
Pressing on with our investigation of how high-yield corporate credit asset classes can best be valued and following discussion around leveraged loans and collateralised loan obligations over the past couple of weeks, our focus this week is on high-yield corporate bonds. In the third of a series of three webinars – published by A-Team and…
Temenos Rebrands ProDB as DataSource, Launches Packaged Data Management Solutions
Temenos has rebranded its ProDB enterprise data management solution as Temenos DataSource and set out a strategy to deliver pre-packaged data management solutions aimed at easing banks’ pain points. The solutions will combine the Temenos metadata model and rules engine with a financial instruments data model (FIDM) developed by Geneva-based Ecofin. The first packaged solution…
Xenomorph Lifts TimeScape into the Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud
Xenomorph has deployed its TimeScape analytics and data management solution in Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud, offering existing and potential users of the software an alternative to on-site installation. Some existing TimeScape users are expected to migrate to the cloud, while new customers can take immediate advantage of the short implementation time and reduced costs of…
Contextualising Your Data
By Simon Smith, Granger Smith Consultingwww.grangersmithconsulting.com The ever growing amount of digital data available poses a real challenge to current search solutions, because they could potentially lack relevance, timeliness and adaptability. BI systems have traditionally focused upon structured data, for example; costs, margins and sales, and it is now becoming essential for a reporting tool…