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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…

SEB UCITS III Platform Hosts Tungsten Capital Management UCITS Fund

SEB today announced that German equity investment specialist, Tungsten Capital Management GmbH, launched a new UCITS III fund via SEB Master KAG. SEB Master KAG is a one stop shop which facilitates the launch and marketing of German UCITS funds. It helps manage risks and fund administration, accounting and pricing as well as fund and…

Misys and Private Equity Firms Rumoured to be Circling SmartStream

Private equity giant Permira and risk technology firm Misys are two of the rumoured bidders that are circling the Dubai International Financial Centre’s (DIFC) SmartStream Technologies. Following the DIFC’s hiring of UBS to handle the potential sale of SmartStream back in October last year, around 10 firms are rumoured to have expressed an interest in…

DTCC Launches Corporate Actions ISO 20022 Test Pilot

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today announced it will launch a pilot program testing new ISO 20022 corporate actions announcement messages and its new browser-based user interface with five leading corporate action users on 25 April. The pilot is part of DTCC’s multi-year reengineering initiative that is changing the way corporate actions are…