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Xenomorph CEO Brian Sentance Spearheads North American Expansion
Xenomorph, the leading analytics and data management solution provider to global financial markets, has today announced that founder director and CEO Brian Sentance has moved to New York to spearhead the company’s North American growth and further boost its presence in the market. The company, which first opened a sales and support operation in North…
FRSGlobal Hires Founder of STB Systems and Makes Further Hires in Asia Pacific and Japan
FRSGlobal, part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, the industry-recognised leader in content-rich solutions for unified global regulatory reporting and risk management, today announced that it has appointed Michael Thomas as Head of Business Development and Operations for North Asia. FRSGlobal has also made a number of additional new hires in the region to boost its…
CSB Faces Lobbying on Cusip ID Fees from Three US Industry Associations
Reflecting the general desire within the user community for lower costs and easier access to instrument identifiers, this week, three US-based industry associations have sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asking the regulator to step in and limit the fees that Standard & Poor’s’ Cusip Service Bureau (CSB) charges for its…
Euroclear’s de Pauw Talks up Corporate Actions Standards, T2S’ Ongoing Impact
International central securities depository (ICSD) Euroclear has been spending a lot of time recently consulting with its user groups about market best practices and standards and how it can improve its servicing of the corporate actions space, according to Edwin de Pauw, director of product management at the ICSD and CSD. This is only natural…
Fidelity ActionsXchange Captures Corporate Actions Faster/Closer to Source
Fidelity ActionsXchange, a Fidelity Investments company and leading provider of global corporate actions and related security events, today introduced an enhanced version of its ActionService platform, which automates and customizes the delivery of corporate actions, such as stock splits and corporate restructurings, on more than 2.5 million securities to some of the world’s largest financial…
CECA Extends Use of SunGard’s FastVal Analytics for Valuing Complex Derivatives
Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros (CECA), the National Association of Spanish Savings Banks, is expanding its use of SunGard’s FastVal Analytics, a comprehensive suite of derivatives pricing models used by international financial institutions for derivatives pricing and structuring, risk management, model validation and benchmarking. The extended use of FastVal will help the association’s financial…
A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Systems
We’ve evolved: Spreadsheets are no longer the primary method for managing valuations pricing! So how are financial institutions managing pricing validation? Video 4 of 5 from the Interactive Data valuations data seminar, moderated by A-Team Group. Running time: 5 minutes 39 seconds
A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Valuations Frequency
A look at the current frequency of valuing assets and why there is a trend toward increased frequency and a move towards intraday valuations. Video 3 of 5 from the Interactive Data valuations data seminar, moderated by A-Team Group. Running time: 6 minutes 21 seconds
A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Vendor Requirements
What do institutions want from their vendors, and what do they think about how they are stacking up? A discussion of the survey scores, with focus on data quality and transparency. Video 2 of 5 from the Interactive Data valuations data seminar, moderated by A-Team Group. Running time: 7 minutes 33 seconds
A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Drivers
Intro to the event and valuations performance benchmarking by moderator Angela Wilbraham, A-Team’s CEO, introduction to our panellists, and discussion about the drivers for valuations data spend that our buy-side institutions and securities services firms’ survey participants are responding to. In particular, a focus on the types of regulations and the type of impact they…