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Data Quality on the Brain
The last thing I expected to hear during a panel on low latency technology deployment at this week’s Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading (catchily dubbed BTLLT by fellow A-Teamers) conference in London was speakers talking about reference data quality. But that’s what happened. Everywhere I go people are talking about data quality. They might…
Pricing Control and Data Governance for Valuations is High on Industry Agenda, Says PaceMetrics’ Severs
Given the regulatory focus on increased transparency, financial institutions are putting much more emphasis on “control and influence” of valuations data, according to Dick Severs, senior buy side consultant at EDM solution vendor PaceMetrics. Severs, who joined the vendor in 2009 from ING Investment Management, reckons investment in pricing control and data governance by fund…
Regulation is Driving the Industry Towards a Utility Approach to Market Data Infrastructure, Says HSBC’s Dean
Regulatory change is pushing the industry towards a central utility model for market and real-time data, according to Alan Dean, global head of cross asset FIX connectivity at HSBC Global Banking and Markets. Speaking at A-Team Group’s Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading (BTLLT) event in London this week, Dean indicated that the onslaught of…
Quantifi to Provide Leading ASEAN Investment Bank Pricing and Analysis Solutions
Quantifi, a provider of analytics, trading and risk management solutions for the global capital markets, today announced that CIMB Group’s investment banking division has selected its pricing and risk analytics solutions, Quantifi XL, to support its expanding operations. CIMB Group is Malaysia’s second largest financial services provider and one of Southeast Asia’s leading universal banking…
S&P Increases Value Added Content on ABSXchange and Announces 25 New Clients
S&P’s structured finance analytics platform, ABSXchange, has undergone a number of improvements designed to aid market participants’ analysis of their ABS and RMBS portfolios. These improvements will allow clients to run projections against forecasted index rates; view the formulae used in calculated benchmarks including underlying values; aggregate asset valuation metrics such as price and yield…
ISDA Proposes to Use FpML to Link Unique IDs to Standardised Derivatives and a New Central Derivative Product Registry
In line with the recent regulatory driven study into derivatives instrument identification, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has released proposals to link unique IDs to these instruments and has called for the establishment of a new central derivative product registry infrastructure. The proposals are contained in a recent white paper, which suggests that…
ISDA 2011 Operations Benchmarking Survey
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) released highlights from its 2011 Operations Benchmarking Survey today at its 26th Annual General meeting in Prague. The Survey shows the results of industry investment in infrastructure over the past several years. The confirmation process, for example, has been completely automated and 100 percent of eligible credit…
Stephen O’Connor New Chairman of ISDA
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) announced that its board of directors will elect Stephen O’Connor, managing director, Morgan Stanley, as the association’s new chairman. O’Connor will be elected with immediate effect at the Board’s regularly scheduled meeting on 14 April at ISDA’s 26th annual general meeting in Prague. O’Connor succeeds Eraj Shirvani, managing…
New Sybase Streaming Capability Conquers Challenges Facing Trade and Risk Analytics in Capital Markets
Sybase, Inc., an SAP company and industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, today announced the scheduled release of new and ground-breaking functionality connecting Sybase Replication Server to Sybase Aleri Streaming Platform. This new functionality will provide the capability for data events from heterogeneous databases to be propagated in real-time, via CEP, addressing key challenges…
Interactive Data Provides Tokyo Stock Exchange With Indicative Valuations For Exchange Traded Funds
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that it is providing indicative optimised portfolio values (IOPVs) for exchange traded funds (ETFs) to the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). Interactive Data will be calculating the IOPVs using its Basket Calculation Service on behalf of the TSE. The Basket Calculation…