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Pricing Partners’ Stochastic Volatility Model to be Discussed at Scientific Conference
Pricing Partners’ latest research about the acceleration by a factor 100, calculating the price of financial options with a stochastic volatility model, has caught the attention of the scientific committee, the 33rd edition of the Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (SPA 2009) Conference, and will be presented during the week of this conference in Berlin…
TFX to Publish Markit iTraxx Japan Index Price Data on Website
Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has announced that it will publish Markit iTraxx Japan Index price data on its website from 27 July 2009. TFX has previously contributed to the development of the Japanese credit markets by publishing credit default swap (CDS) reference rates on its website. By publishing data on the Markit iTraxx Japan Index,…
CESR Elaborates on OTC Derivatives Identifiers for Transaction Reporting
The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has published a consultation paper recommending the adoption a set of identifiers and classifications for OTC derivatives for the purpose of including those instruments in the exchange of transaction reports amongst CESR members. These reports are currently exchanged between regulatory authorities via an IT system, dubbed the Transaction…
Provident Risk Management Selects Fincad’s Fair Value Insight for Valuations
Provident Risk Management is using Fincad’s Fair Value Insight as the foundation for its clients’ credit risk management and market valuations for interest rate derivatives and maximum potential credit exposure. Fair Value Insight is a secure web-based independent valuation solution built upon Fincad’s industry standard analytics and Icap’s market data. The solution enables corporate treasuries,…
Buy Side Participation for ICE Trust to be Enabled in October
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), an operator of regulated global futures exchanges, clearing houses and OTC markets, has developed a solution that provides segregation of customer funds and positions in credit default swap (CDS) clearing. The solution, which will enable buy side participation in CDS clearing, is expected to be introduced in October 2009, subject to regulatory approval….
Interactive Data Reports 4.6% Revenue Increase for Reference Data Biz in Q2 2009
Despite the difficult economic environment, Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data has experienced revenue growth of 4.6% in the second quarter of this year compared to last year’s figures. This is in contrast to a decrease for the vendor’s overall financial results for the second quarter ended 30 June 2009, US$185.0 million compared with…
Xignite Talks up Low Cost Approach to Corporate Actions Data
Although Xignite is best known in the market data world, last month it stepped into the world of reference data with the launch of its XigniteCorporateActions service. Joel York, chief marketing officer, and Chas Cooper, director of product marketing, speak to Reference Data Review about their proposition to provide low cost access to vital corporate…
Icap and Fincad Team up for Fair Value Insight Solution
Icap and Fincad have launched a new solution to address the growing need for increased transparency and independent valuations allowing better liquidity, counterparty and operational risk management. Fair Value Insight is a secure web-based derivatives valuation solution built on Fincad’s industry standard analytics and Icap’s market data. The solution enables corporate treasuries, banks, asset management…
GoldenSource’s Vanlint Discusses Kedrios Partnership for Italian Market
This month, EDM vendor signed a partnership agreement with SIA-SSB Group’s outsourcing subsidiary Kedrios to launch a new hosted data management service for the Italian market: Kedrios Data Management (KDM). Neill Vanlint, managing director of EMEA for GoldenSource, explains the details to Reference Data Review. The two vendors have been in discussions for over a…
DTCC’s Donahue Champions Single Trade Repository for OTC Derivatives
Donald Donahue, chairman and CEO of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), today stressed that a single trade repository for OTC derivatives contracts is essential to mitigating risk and enhancing transparency in the market. Donahue made his remarks as part of his keynote address at a US Chamber of Commerce discussion titled “Modernising Derivatives…