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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…
ICBC Asia Moved to Pricing Partners’ Derivatives Pricing Analytics to Enhance its Flow Derivatives Activities
Pricing Partners announced today that Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited (ICBC (Asia)), the flagship of Hong Kong banking business of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited, the world tier one bank, selected Pricing Partners’ derivatives analytics, Price-it Excel to enhance its flow derivatives desks activities. The agreement was signed through its…
Omgeo Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, today announced that it is celebrating 10 years of successful partnerships with its global community in automating trade lifecycle events, streamlining operations and reducing counterparty risk. Founded in 2001 by Thomson Financial (now Thomson Reuters) and the DTCC, Omgeo has become a key partner in trade lifecycle automation….
ISDA Raises Concerns About Representation of Liabilities in Recent FASB/IASB Exposure Draft
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has raised its concerns about the representation of an entity’s financial position, solvency, and exposure to credit and liquidity risk in the proposals in the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) recent exposure draft on the offsetting of financial assets and financial liabilities….