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EDI and Failstation Combine their Expertise to Meet Client’s STP Goals
Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of back office data, announced today a partnership with FailStation, the industry utility that aggregates real time failed trade and pre-matching trades for the industry. Middle Office Solutions (MOS) and Exchange Data International (EDI) have signed a partnership agreement to expand the products and services offered to their clients,…
US SEC: XBRL for Financial Statements
The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted rules requiring companies to provide financial statement information in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) to improve the information’s usefulness. This is an overview for companies that are required to begin submitting XBRL data during 2011 and summarises some of the main process issues, lessons learned to date and…
Omgeo Launches Hedge Fund Operations Forum
Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, announced today that it has launched the Hedge Fund Operations Forum (HOF), an industry peer group for UK-based hedge fund operations professionals. Members of the HOF will meet on a quarterly basis to exchange ideas and knowledge of operational best practice implementation that goes beyond current regulatory requirements….
Thomson Reuters Expands Fixed Income Valuation Offering with New CLO Pricing Capability
Thomson Reuters announced today the launch of a new Collateralised Loan Obligation (CLO) evaluated pricing service, delivered via DataScope Select, its strategic distribution platform for non-streaming global content and pricing. This new pricing capability will provide end-of-day valuations for global cash CLOs, including both broadly syndicated and middle market deals, and give investors greater transparency…
Stuffed with Standards
Last week witnessed the continuing evolution of a new standard for the identification of legal entities across the financial markets with the publication of the Sifma led coalition of associations’ feedback on the subject to the Office of Financial Research (OFR). But will it be just another standard to add to the many that the…
Hudson Bay Capital’s Black Discusses Bloomberg Vault Implementation, Cost Saving Benefits of Cloud-Based Data Storage
The expanded registration requirements under Dodd Frank for firms that once fell under exemptions have resulted in many more firms being compelled to invest in data storage solutions in order to ease the data retrieval process and keep costs down. One such firm is buy side firm Hudson Bay Capital Management, which has recently rolled out…
Sifma Led Financial Association Coalition Provides OFR with a Wish List for the LEI, Sets 30 May Deadline
The 13 strong, Sifma led coalition of industry associations involved in providing feedback to the regulatory community regarding the establishment of a new global legal entity identification standard has finally produced its comprehensive list of requirements for the ID. The group has also set a deadline of the end of this month (30 May) for…
Calypso Technology Releases Version 12
Calypso Technology Inc., the global capital markets platform provider, today announced the release of Calypso Version 12 (V12) of its cross-asset, front-to-back office platform. The new release improves on best practice standards with stronger seamless integration across asset classes and between functional layers. V12 also builds on Calypso Technology’s growing status as a single-source-of-truth for…
SIX Telekurs White Paper: Transparency in Evaluated Pricing
In an effort to help bring clarity and understanding about transparency in evaluated pricing, SIX Telekurs is pleased to announce the release of a new white paper that describes our thoughts and practices. The paper will be discussed publicly for the first time in a workshop at the upcoming A-Team “Data Management for Risk, Analytics…
More Formal Management of Instrument Valuation Needed, Says Xenomorph
Xenomorph, the analytics and data management solutions provider to global financial institutions, has today released its white paper “Instrument Valuation Management: management of derivative and fixed income valuations in a multi-asset, multi-model, multi-data source and multi-timeframe environment”. The white paper expands on the “Rates, Curves and Surfaces – Golden Copy Management of Complex Datasets” white…