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PolarLake and Capgemini Form Alliance for Financial Services

The Financial Services Global Business Unit of Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, and PolarLake, a leading software vendor providing a platform for Reference Data Management (RDM) and distribution for financial institutions, today announced they have entered into an alliance to improve comprehensive enterprise data management for financial…

Bravura Solutions Appoints Global Strategy, Risk and Planning Manager

Bravura Solutions (Bravura) – a leading global supplier of transfer agency and wealth management software applications and professional services – has appointed Mr Jason Wilby as its Global Strategy, Risk and Planning Manager. Based in the Sydney office and reporting to Rebecca Norton, Bravura’s Chief Financial Officer, the new role was created to enable effective…

SIX Telekurs & Eagle Investment Systems Deliver Enhanced Data Management Solutions

To showcase its newly enhanced interface with Eagle Investment Systems, SIX Telekurs is pleased to be a “Gold” sponsor of the 2011 Eagle Client Conference. Eagle’s Data Integration Services and SIX Telekurs have worked together to map the SIX Telekurs flagship Valordata Feed (VDF) to Eagle’s data management platform. Eagle is an advanced solution that…

Moody’s Corporation Elects Kathy Hill to Board of Directors

Moody’s Corporation announced today that Kathy Hill has been elected to its board of directors. The election is effective immediately. She will serve as a member of the Governance & Compensation Committee and Audit Committee. Ms. Hill, 55, has over 30 years of experience in the management and leadership of operations and engineering organizations. Since…

Thomson Reuters Integrates DataScope Pricing and Reference Data with Black Mountain Systems’ Everest

Thomson Reuters has just completed the integration work involved in allowing Black Mountain Systems’ portfolio management system Everest clients to access the data giant’s DataScope Select pricing and reference data. Brian Buzzelli, head of pricing and reference data for the Americas region at Thomson Reuters, explains the details of the customised data integration process, which…

CMA Releases New Parsing System for Credit Options

CMA Parsing Credit Options is the first parsing solution available for the credit options market. The solution builds on CMA’s extensive parsing technology for OTC markets, which includes CDS, bonds and loan runs. The product extracts pricing data from emails, enabling users to capture and compare a full set of pricing information with volatility surfaces…

SunGard adds Fitch Solutions CDS Data to its FastVal Service for Independent Valuations

SunGard has chosen Fitch Solutions consensus CDS pricing service to enhance SunGard’s FastVal, an independent valuation service for vanilla and structured OTC derivatives. Fitch’s CDS Pricing Service covers up to 3,000 single name CDS contracts using independent pricing data from the member banks of Fitch’s global pricing services consortium. It also includes Fitch CDS Benchmarking…

ISDA Leads Industry Effort to Standardize the Credit Support Annex

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) today outlined key provisions to the Standard Credit Support Annex (SCSA) proposal as part of its continuing efforts to increase efficiency and improve standardization in the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets. The SCSA proposal addresses three primary objectives. The SCSA seeks to standardize market practices by removing embedded…

New Interactive Performance & Risk Reporting from BNY Mellon Improves Transparency for Institutional Investors

BNY Mellon, the global leader in investment management and investment services, has introduced a number of enhancements to its Performance & Risk Analytics reporting that offer dynamic, new interactive capability enabling clients to customize, drill-down, and gain greater insight into their portfolio returns. The company’s new Interactive Performance Report (IPR) makes these new features available…

PolarLake Opens German Office

Today PolarLake, a global leader in applying Semantic Web and Big Data Technologies to the challenges of Financial and Reference Data Management, announced the opening of its office in Frankfurt, Germany. Marcus Behrend has joined PolarLake as Business Development Manager for Central Europe. Marcus has over 10 years’ experience in the Financial Services industry and…