Data Management Insight Data Governance & Standards The latest content from across the platform
Mackie Research Capital Goes Live on SunGard’s Fame for Pricing Data and Analytics
Mackie Research Capital, one of Canada’s largest independent full service investment firms, has implemented SunGard’s Fame for pricing data and analytics to help support the firm’s investment, research and trading strategies and activities. Providing live data and desktop tools for analysing investment results and opportunities, Fame helps Mackie Research Capital view and analyse accurate, aggregate…
PolarLake has Netted Eight New Clients This Year, Launches Reference Data Policy Engine
Commensurate with the current trend towards an uptick in investment in data management solutions this year, PolarLake’s CEO John Randles indicates that eight new clients have signed on the dotted line so far in 2010. The vendor has also just launched its PolarLake Reference Data Policy Engine, which Randles says is aimed at affording end…
Interactive Data Provides Independent Evaluations for GNMA Reverse Mortgage-Backed Securities
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business is now providing daily independent evaluations for fixed-rate reverse mortgage-backed securities (HMBS) issued under the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) programme. This programme is designed to provide liquidity…
UK Organisations Take Naive Approach to Data Centre Management, Nlyte Software Research Reveals
Nlyte Software, a provider of data centre performance management solutions, today released the results of its recent research that surveyed 200 UK CIOs on the importance of better managing and optimising the data centre infrastructure. The research, conducted by Vanson Bourne, shows a clear disconnect between reality and hype when it comes to implementing the…
Edgar Online Announces New Chief Operations Officer
Edgar Online announced today that Diana Bourke will be joining the company. Bourke will assume the title of chief operations officer and will join the company full time on 5 April 2010. Prior to joining Edgar Online, Bourke was most recently president and chief executive officer of Inveshare, formerly known as Swingvote. Inveshare delivers shareholder…
Hyman Beck & Co. Selects GFI Fenics Professional
GFI Group announced today that Hyman Beck and Company, one of the world’s most diversified alternative investment managers, has licensed FENICS Professional for the pricing and risk management of its FX options business. The agreement includes FENICS Pricing, Analysis, and Structuring. James Lubin, Principal and COO of Hyman Beck said: “We are very pleased to…
Northern Trust’s Chapman Appointed as Member and Custodian Representative to SWIFT (UK) Ltd Board of Directors
Northern Trust announces today that Justin Chapman, global head of process management at Northern Trust, has been appointed to represent the securities community on the UK board of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT). Chapman, currently the custodian representative appointed to the board of 12 directors, is also the co-chairman of the SWIFT…
Pine River Capital Management Selects Quantifi to Support Credit Strategies
Quantifi, a provider of valuation models and risk management software for the global credit and interest rate markets, today announced that Pine River Capital Management, a leading alternative asset management firm in the relative value space, has selected Quantifi XL for pricing and analysis of global credit products. Pine River, which has offices in Minnetonka,…
GoldenSource Partners with Xenomorph to Centralise Market and Reference Data
GoldenSource has partnered with analytics and data management specialist Xenomorph to offer the GoldenSource Market Data Solution (GSMDS), a single platform for market and reference data management that gives risk officers what GoldenSource describes as “a 360 degree view of all risk related data”. GoldenSource looked at a number of potential partners and considered the…
UK FSA’s SCV: If You’re a Deposit Taking Institution, it Applies to You
As noted by Reference Data Review recently), the UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) incoming Single Customer View (SCV) reforms, which are part of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), will require a significant amount of effort to create new data linkages in order for the institutions covered by the regulation to be ready to report…