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XSP Shifts Corporate Actions Solution into the Cloud to Cut Client Costs
XSP has made its first move into the cloud with a lightweight version of its corporate actions processing solution. Called XSPrisa, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering is aimed at Tier 2 and top Tier 3 market participants that feel the company’s enterprise-scale software is beyond their reach. According to Daniel Retzer, chief technology officer at XSP,…
Efama Launches Complaint About S&P ISIN Pricing in Switzerland
The European Fund and Asset Management Association’s (Efama) complaint against Standard & Poor’s practice of making end users of its International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) in Switzerland pay a licence charge and fees for the numbers is in the hands of the Swiss competition authority Wettbewerbskommission (Weko). A small scale dispute, perhaps, but one that…
Interactive Data Increases Transparency of Evaluated Pricing to Decrease Risk
Interactive Data has upgraded its Vantage web application for evaluated pricing transparency to Version 2.0. The upgrade offers a significant expansion of instrument coverage, from 125,000 securities in Version 1.0 to 2.8 million in Version 2.0, and improved compliance and risk management through greater transparency of the firm’s evaluated pricing in the fixed income market.
Pricing Partners Meets Demand for Valuation of Proprietary Indexes
Pricing Partners is meeting growing interest in unstructured products with valuation services for proprietary indexes created by banks to support investment in risky and non-risky assets, while making trading rules transparent to investors. The company’s valuation services for proprietary indexes went live last month and it is already working with a handful of Tier 1…
S&P Capital IQ Invests to Bolster Valuation and Pricing Services
S&P Capital IQ has upgraded its fixed income transparency solution by reconfiguring and adding content and functionality to the platform behind its Valuation and Data portal. The upgraded service is intended to help users improve risk management while meeting accounting and regulatory requirements for independent and transparent valuations. The enhanced service was rolled out to…
Andrew’s Blog – It’s All About Risk (Data)
This week sees the release of an industry briefing we prepared for Sybase entitled ‘Managing Risk Data in the Siloed Enterprise’. I’ll be presenting the key findings at an event in London on Tuesday, where I’ll be joined by a group of risk managers and data architects – as well as Sybase’s Stuart Grant, IDC…
XSP Extends Market Reach of Automated Corporate Actions Solution
XSP is extending the market reach of its automated corporate actions solution through a deal with technology services provider Broadridge Financial Solutions and a cloud-based version of its software. Under the terms of the Broadridge deal, Broadridge will offer XSP v5 as an integral element of its hosted applications service provider platform, as a service…
Societe Generale Securities Services Supports Emergence Seed Capital Fund
Emergence, the first seed capital fund introduced in France with support from Paris Europlace, has selected Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) to provide valuation and trustee services to NewAlpha Asset Management, the fund’s financial manager and selector of small asset managers that will form the fund. Emergence was created on January 19 as an initiative…
Q&A: Interactive Data’s Scott Caudell on Co-Lo and Managed Services
Managed service delivery in the low-latency world is an increasing focus as trading firms begin to measure ROI for their IT investments. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Scott Caudell, vice president, IT Infrastructure, at Interactive Data, about its 7ticks business, and where it fits in. Q: To begin with, can you outline what the Interactive Data 7ticks…
S&P Capital IQ Bolsters CMBS Insight with Additions to ABSXchange
S&P Capital IQ has responded to customer demand for greater insight into commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) by adding functionality to its ABSXchange structured finance analytics platform and upgrading its Excel Add-in that can be used across asset classes. Additions to the CMBS model within ABSXchange are an improved loan assumptions editor that allows users to…