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Phatra Securities Public Company Limited Selects the Charles River IMS to Manage Private Funds in Thailand
Charles River Development, a front- and middle-office investment management solutions provider, today announced that Phatra Securities Public Company Limited, one of Thailand’s leading securities companies for institutions and high-net-worth individuals, has selected the Charles River Investment Management System to support its new project to establish a private fund department in Bangkok. Phatra’s users will benefit…
DataFlux Targets Firms’ Semantics with New Data Management Platform
DataFlux’s release of version 2.2 of its DataFlux Data Management Platform introduces its so-called Business Data Network, a framework that allows data managers to set semantic terms across business areas. By adopting a common set of terms for securities, counterparties and activities, BDN can help institutions take a significant step toward a robust approach to…
London Capital Group Selects ITRS Geneos for its Entire Application and Infrastructure Monitoring
Leading UK retail and professional spread betting provider, London Capital Group (LCG), is to use Geneos from ITRS Group, to monitor and manage all elements of their trading room technology to optimise speed, latency and reliability across their data and trading technology. LCG specialises in providing online trading services for private, professional and institutional customers….
BTG Pactual Signs with Calypso Technology for OTC Derivatives and Securities Support
Calypso Technology, Inc., a global application software provider of an integrated trading, risk and processing platform to financial institutions, announced today that the firm has signed with BTG Pactual, Brazil’s leading investment bank. The Calypso system will support their full range of portfolio assets including OTC derivatives and securities. BTG Pactual was seeking a solution…
Opinion: LEI – Persistent or Unique Identity?
By Chris Pickles, Head of Industry Initiatives, BT Global Banking & Financial Markets I’ve been struggling to understand the details behind the current initiative to create a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) – particularly an LEI as an ISO standard. One of the problems that we all often face when we get deeply immersed in a…
Thomson Reuters Addresses Valuations Transparency with TV Channel
Thomson Reuters is launching a video channel on its Reuters Insider TV service that will explain the methodologies it uses to underpin its Thomson Reuters Pricing Service for OTC valuations. The channel – the Evaluated Pricing Market Update – seeks to address market calls for greater transparency in evaluated pricing of hard-to-price or illiquid securities….
Opinion: Big Data Solutions to the Problem of Volume
By Amir Halfon, Senior Director for Technology, Capital Markets, Oracle Financial Services With the latest developments in the European debt crisis reverberating across the globe, the importance and necessity of managing the large amounts of data related to risk exposures is apparent more than ever. As I mentioned in my previous blog post, the ability…
Eagle Sees 2012 Focus on Globalisation, EDM and Cloud
Following a record year of revenue and profitability growth in 2011, Eagle Investment Systems expects to continue the trend in 2012, backed by significant investment in R&D and personnel as it expands particularly outside of its US base. According to president John Lehner, the company has added a record number of new clients in 2011…
A Model for Data Governance – Does Your Organization Really Have One?
The current focus on new regulations, and their impact on risk management practices, has turned the attention of financial institutions to data. It is increasingly evident that accurate and consistent data is key both to compliance with incoming regulations and to reaping the benefits of a robust risk management strategy. Business managers have come to…
Stop Press: Glocer Out as Thomson Reuters Swoops to Flatten Organisation
Just when you thought it was safe, and Thomson Reuters had seen the worst of the organisational turmoil that has beset it since the departure of Markets CEO Devin Wenig in the summer, the company has announced the new, flatter organisation it will adopt on January 1. There is no place for CEO Tom Glocer,…