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iPads, Apps and Tweets, Oh My!
One of the most notable things about this year’s Sibos, on both the exhibition floor and in the sessions, was the prevalence of mobile technology. Many of the vendors and banks in attendance were touting their new apps to bring the middle and back office into the 21st century. Whether it was the ability to…
CQG Integrates with FOW TRADEdata Xymbology
FOW TRADEdata announced today the integration of CQG instrument codes into its Xymbology product for the futures and options market. Xymbology is an identifier mapping service for exchange-traded futures and options contracts. CQG is a provider of integrated order execution, charting, and analytics for global, electronically traded futures markets. CQG offers real-time and historical data…
Strategic Acquisitions, Cost Cutting and Corporate Actions Top the Bill at Sibos
Last week’s annual Swift user conference in Amsterdam saw the messaging network operator focus on a range of items central to its new 2015 strategy (see our video interview with Swift’s managing director for the UK, Ireland and the Nordics Arun Aggarwal on the subject earlier this year), including cost saving opportunities, strategic acquisitions of…
Interactive Data Provides Wide Range of US Bond Data to iPortfolio Solutions
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that it is delivering a wide range of US bonds data to iPortfolio Solutions. iPortfolio (formerly MuniWorks) provides portfolio analytics and ancillary information on bonds issued in the US to investment product professionals, advisors and individual investors via a secure…
GoldenSource RiskHub to Help Financial Firms Achieve a Holistic View of Market, Credit, Liquidity and Counterparty Risk
GoldenSource, a provider of data management solutions for risk mitigation, today announced RiskHub, a suite of products to help risk professionals implement highly automated, timely and cost effective risk management strategies. With firms pushed to increase transparency of their risk and data governance and meet more stringent regulatory requirements, GoldenSource RiskHub provides a flexible and…
Taking a Stand on Standards
This year’s Sibos was certainly not short of discussions about standards, but the actual physical location of the Standards Forum sessions (next to the Swift booth and beside the equally noisy Innotribe stand) was representative of the danger that Swift faces in this space: getting its message drowned out by background noise. The communication about…
StatPro Discovers Solution to the Liquidity Risk Paradox
StatPro Group, a leading provider of portfolio analysis and asset valuation services for the global asset management industry, announces a major breakthrough in its risk measurement research. StatPro has designed an innovative approach to measuring market liquidity risk that does not rely only on observed bid, ask and volumes. Instead, factors such as market capitalisation,…
DClear Reference Data Services Gain Significant Momentum a Year on From their Launch
SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist, today announced significant progress for its DClear business, a year after its launch. With reference data on the agenda again at this year’s Sibos conference, a utility service model providing clean, consistent reference data as a service has come to the fore as the industry wrestles with data…
Cadis Solvency II Risk Platform Answer to Group-Wide Compliance
Cadis, the global EDM specialist, today announced its Solvency II risk platform. The platform will provide insurers with the confidence of complete data governance lineage and the level of transparency, visibility and data quality being demanded by tough regulator scrutiny. Daniel Simpson, CEO of Cadis said: “The capital adequacy requirement of Solvency II is the…
DTCC and SWIFT Launch ISO 20022 Corporate Actions Messaging Pilot Program
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,500 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, announced today that Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) has agreed to participate in a new ISO 20022 corporate actions messaging pilot program. The pilot program being run by DTCC will…