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Recorded Webinar: Valuations – Toward Real-Time Evaluated Pricing
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Risk and regulatory imperatives are demanding access to the latest portfolio information. And the front-office increasingly wants up-to-date valuations of hard-to-price securities. The developments are driving a push toward real-time evaluated pricing capabilities, with pricing teams seeking to provide access to valuations on demand….
Valuations – Toward On-Demand Evaluated Pricing
Risk and regulatory imperatives are demanding access to the latest portfolio information, placing new pressures on the pricing and valuation function. And the front office increasingly wants up-to-date valuations of hard-to-price securities. These developments are driving a push toward on-demand evaluated pricing capabilities, with pricing teams seeking to provide access to valuations at higher frequency…
Change at the Top as Gross Exits SIX Group and Zeller is Elected Chairman
Thomas Gross, CEO of the Financial Information division at SIX Group, will leave the company tomorrow, Wednesday 5 June 2013, after four years in the role. Gross told a board meeting of his decision to leave the group last week. He will be replaced on an interim basis by Marcel Bättig, COO of the business….
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Valuations (Part 2)
As I mentioned last week, issues around establishing fair value for less liquid securities remain a focus for many in the financial data business. The marketplace has seen the emergence of highly specialised financial products over the past several years, and data practitioners are having to come to grips with how to deal with these…
Temenos Rebrands ProDB as DataSource, Launches Packaged Data Management Solutions
Temenos has rebranded its ProDB enterprise data management solution as Temenos DataSource and set out a strategy to deliver pre-packaged data management solutions aimed at easing banks’ pain points. The solutions will combine the Temenos metadata model and rules engine with a financial instruments data model (FIDM) developed by Geneva-based Ecofin. The first packaged solution…
SIX Financial Information Develops FundsFast Concept to Deliver Fund Income Data
SIX Financial Information is offering delivery of fund income information on a 15-minute frequency as part of a bespoke managed service that augments the functionality of its FundsFast current day fund prices service. The Fund Income Distribution service had a soft launch in the first quarter of 2013 and is now in production with many…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Valuations… But Were Afraid to Ask (Part 1)
Valuations are a hot topic in today’s increasingly regulated capital markets. Transparency is a prime concern, as are multi-sourcing of pricing data, timely delivery and the process for handling price challenges. And yet, getting to grips with the intricacies of the issues at hand remains elusive. Until now, that is. In the first of three…
Misys Builds Out Sophis Value with Version 5 and Ongoing Roadmap
Misys has released version five of its Sophis Value portfolio and risk management solution, increasing risk analytics and asset coverage, as well as providing a new user interface and compliance with Dodd-Frank and European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) requirements covering derivatives. Sophis Value v5 has been in development for two years and is in beta…
Stanley Young Departs Bloomberg
Stanley Young has left Bloomberg, where he was CEO of the company’s Enterprise Products and Solutions division. He was with Bloomberg almost a year, having joined in June 2012. A Bloomberg spokesperson offered this statement: “Stanley Young joined Bloomberg to help broaden our enterprise offerings and strategy. As part of that initiative, he helped us…
BNY Mellon Report Explores Big Data in Finance, in the 21st Century
A report recently published by BNY Mellon – it’s available to anyone who request it from them – takes a look at big data, its definition and its potential, and “sketches its transformational influence on the 21st century global financial system, mainly from an asset management perspective.” The report was written by Jack Malvey, chief…