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Siag Consulting and Pricing Partners Team up for Broad Distribution in Iberia and LATAM

Pricing Partners and Siag Consulting International, a tier 1 consulting and systems implementation specialist based in Madrid, have announced today a partnership covering Iberia and LATAM. Siag’s expertise in Market and Credit risk management provides the deep domain expertise to partner with Pricing Partners in advising and supporting client valuation methodologies given the increased requirement…

SWIFT Looks to Fill “Payment Gap” Worth Billions of Euros, Caused by Poor Reference Data

SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,700 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, today announced the launch of SWIFTRef, a family of products that aims to eliminate costly payment errors arising from bad data, and increase straight-through-processing (STP). Thirty percent of non-STP payments are caused by bad reference data, and with manual…

Virginie’s Blog – Reference Data @ Sibos

Ahead of Swift’s annual conference later this month, here’s a quick roundup of the reference data related sessions on the agenda for those heading to Toronto (and a preview for those of you who will be waiting for A-Team coverage of the event). In keeping with Swift’s extended ambitions in the reference data standards space…

Pricing Partners Extends its Solution for Correlation and Dispersion Swaps

Pricing Partners announced today that it has extended Price-it language to price faster correlation and dispersion swaps. Correlation and dispersion swaps allow taking view on implied versus historical correlation. These products have been popular for a few years. Pricing them in a generic scripting language payoff framework could be very cumbersome. Hence, Pricing Partners developed…

SIX Telekurs Completes New Round of Expansion of its Global Real-Time Market Data Services

SIX Telekurs has added 35 sources of real-time market data from global exchanges, institutional contributors and financial news providers since the beginning of 2011. This expansion of services brings better access to market information in the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Northern Europe. The additional real-time sources, which include upgraded services…

BlueBay Asset Management Goes Live with Vermilion KIID Solution

BlueBay Asset Management Ltd (‘BlueBay’), a market leading asset management company, went live with Vermilion Software’s outsourced Key Investor Information Document (‘KIID’) reporting service, VRS KIID, in July 2011. This followed an extensive selection process, including the review of the other KIID reporting offerings in the market place. BlueBay selected Vermilion in April of this…

Cloud Industry Forum Joins Third Party Assurance Initiative

The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) today announced it has partnered with the Third Party Assurance Centre (TPAC), a business assurance initiative, formed to help minimise outsourcing risks. Other industry bodies partnering with TPAC include the Information Security Forum, Cloud Security Alliance, Common Assurance Maturity Model, and the Payment Card Industry board of advisers. A recent…

BDO M&A Survey 2011 – Strong M&A Demand Hampered By “Valuation Gap”

BDO, the accountancy and business advisory firm, today released its annual M&A Survey, polling the views of CEOs and Financial Directors of mid-market companies1. Key findings included: 55% of companies that sought to make a transaction in the last 12 months failed to do so. On average one transaction has been completed for every eight…

EDI Open a New Branch in Montreal and Appoints David Mallette

Exchange Data International (EDI) the specialist provider of global Reference and Corporate Actions Data has opened a new branch in Montreal to service its existing and growing Canadian clientele. At the same time, EDI has appointed David Mallette to advise on the Canadian Equity and Fixed Income market. Prior to his appointment at EDI, David…

Asset Control Enhances Data Coverage and Flexibility with Thomson Reuters Content

Asset Control, provider of financial data management solutions and services, has expanded the data coverage of its AC Plus data management solution with the addition of request-based content from Thomson Reuters DataScope Select, the strategic data delivery platform for non-streaming, cross-asset, global content. By accessing Thomson Reuters static content through AC Plus, customers will be…