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Andrew’s Blog – Joyeux Noel FISD Style

The FISD’s European Holiday Party last night was – as it always is – a fun affair, and a great way of doing the rounds of the market and reference data set before the Christmas Break. Less jolly was the General Meeting’ flagship regulation panel, which saw panellist after panellist express frustration, confusion and downright…

CFTC’s Gary Gensler: Shining a Light on Swaps Transparency

CFTC chairman Gary Gensler has urged market practitioners to rally behind the Dodd-Frank regulatory reforms that will boost transparency in derivatives markets and outlined the steps the derivatives regulatory agency has taken to improve transparency in the swaps markets it oversees. Speaking at a conference hosted by the Office of Financial Research and the Financial…

MoneyMate Releases Enhanced DataManager and Rebrands as Fund ProductMaster

MoneyMate, a specialist provider of investment data quality management solutions, today announced the release of several major enhancements to their flagship platform, DataManager, and the rebranding of the platform as Fund ProductMaster. Fund ProductMaster offers several enhancements via a cloud platform that enables global asset managers to oversee and control the quality, accuracy and timeliness…

Shell Cuts Legacy Dependency with Rollout of Cadis EDM

Shell’s rolling deployment of the Cadis EDM enterprise data management platform will give the petrochemicals giant a centralised repository for collection, normalisation and distribution of all foreign exchange rates and curves globally. The treasury department deployment, initially in London but soon to be at a series of overseas locations as well, will support all treasury…

Shell’s Global Treasury Department Goes Live with Cadis EDM Platform

Shell has gone live with the Cadis EDM platform for its global treasury department. The success of the London-based implementation provides a consistent, real-time view of relevant data to all global treasury applications and over 30 different ERP systems across the entire company. “As global reform heightens, including more rigorous international regulatory controls, data governance…

Pricing Partners Offers New Methods to Generate Large Volatility Surface for Thomson Reuters Market Data Users

Pricing Partners, the world leader in OTC derivatives pricing analytics, mathematical models and independent valuations, announced today that its award winning Price-it has been upgraded to provide analytical tools to compute large volatility surfaces from option data provided by Thomson Reuters 3000 Xtra or Eikon solution. Indeed, one of the difficulties when pricing structured products…

MoneyMate’s Smyth Elaborates Further on the M&G Investments’ Implementation

M&G Investments first looked at establishing a new product master data solution for its 50-odd retail funds back in the summer of 2009 and, after a detailed and in-depth couple of years of background research and planning, it has finally rolled out the first phase of buy side data management specialist vendor MoneyMate’s DataManager solution….

M&G Investments Selects MoneyMate’s DataManager

MoneyMate, a leading provider of investment data management solutions to the global asset management industry, today announced that it has been selected by M&G Investments to implement DataManager to ensure the accurate, efficient and controlled delivery of M&G’s fund product data to internal departments, external agencies and external clients. DataManager will host M&G’s range of…

Steve Davey Joins RIMES as Head of IT Infrastructure & Information Security

To support the company’s continued growth, RIMES today announced that Steve Davey has joined the company as Head of IT Infrastructure and Information Security, effective immediately. Reporting jointly to the CEO and the CTO, Davey will be responsible for maintaining RIMES’ global IT infrastructure and data centers in order to further enhance the delivery and…

BNY Mellon Agrees $125 Billion Outsourcing Mandate with Bridgewater Associates

BNY Mellon, the global leader in investment management and investment services, has been selected by Bridgewater Associates to provide middle- and back-office outsourcing services for approximately $125 billion of assets. BNY Mellon will support Bridgewater’s strategy of delivering diversified alpha and beta strategies for clients via its dedicated outsourcing platform – BNY Mellon OnCoresm. Services…