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Princeton Financial Optimizes Data Management of Hauck & Aufhaeuser in Record Time
Hauck & Aufhäuser Investment Gesellschaft S.A. (HAIG), a service provider for the conception and administration of funds, needed to replace their fund accounting system while maintaining operation of all business-critical systems. Due to Princeton Financial® Systems? (PFS) extensive experience in this area, they successfully supported HAIG in this project and simultaneously established a system architecture…
Rates, Curves and Derived Data Management Remains a Neglected Area Following the Crisis, Says Xenomorph
Xenomorph, the analytics and data management solutions provider to global financial institutions, has today released its white paper ‘Rates, Curves and Surfaces – Golden Copy Management of Complex Datasets’. The white paper describes how, despite the increasing interest in risk management and tighter regulations following the crisis, the management of complex datasets – such as…
Daewoo Securities Selects Pricing Partners’ Financial Analytics Solutions
Pricing Partners announced today the signing of Daewoo Securities, the largest stock brokerage and investment banking firm in South Korea, as the its first South Korean client. The agreement was signed through its regional partner Belatos. Under this groundbreaking agreement, Daewoo Securities will deploy Pricing Partners’ entire financial pricing and analytics solutions, Price-it Library suite…
‘New’ Interactive Data Starts to Shake Institutional Trees
Six months after the completion of its acquisition by venture capitalists Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus, Interactive Data’s new corporate structure is beginning to emerge. As it puts the new management lineup in place, the company is undergoing a technology revamp, kicking off in its Real-time business, which itself is starting to attract significant institutional…
CITIC Prudential Fund Management Company goes live with HiPortfolio
DST Global Solutions, a provider of investment management software and services, today announced that CITIC Prudential Fund Management Company has gone live with the HiPortfolio Asset Servicing solution, to strengthen its fund accounting operations. CITIC Prudential Fund Management Company is an asset management joint venture between the UK’s Prudential Group and China’s CITIC Group. Rock…
Pricing Partners Extended Multi-Curve Pricing to Major Currencies
Pricing Partners, a derivatives independent valuation and mathematical models and pricing analytics provider, announced today to improve its multi-curve pricing to major currencies. This announcement comes at a time when the market dislocation between the three month and the six month curves for all major currencies widen from a few basic points to a few…
The Industry Needs a Global, Unique Legal Entity ID with No Embedded Logic, Says HSBC’s Serenita
The adoption of a global, unique legal entity identifier that has no embedded logic will have the biggest impact on the data management space, according to Peter Serenita, global head of entity and account data management for Global Banking and Markets at HSBC. However, the industry will also need to take into account the wider…
First Derivatives Hires MD, Global Sales for Reference Data Solutions
First Derivatives, a provider of software and consulting services to global investment banks and hedge funds this morning announced the addition of Bret Bange to its management team. Based in NY, Bret will head global sales and marketing of FD’s suite of reference data solutions, which are marketed under the Group’s “Delta” product brand. As…
Aiming for Omgeo’s Lunch?
The announcement this week that Swift will be launching a new “range of initiatives” targeted at the standing settlement instructions (SSI) space is obviously part of the network operator’s new 2015 strategy to get into the reference data space, but it also represents yet another competitive bid to eat rival Omgeo’s lunch. The planned SSI repository…
SWIFT Launches SSI Initiatives to Reduce Settlement Errors and Increase Automation
SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,500 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, today announced the roll-out of a range of new initiatives designed to reduce costly settlement errors and improve the rates of automation of Standing Settlement Instructions (SSIs). SWIFT’s initiatives are a response to the industry need for greater efficiency…