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DataFlux Targets Firms’ Semantics with New Data Management Platform
DataFlux’s release of version 2.2 of its DataFlux Data Management Platform introduces its so-called Business Data Network, a framework that allows data managers to set semantic terms across business areas. By adopting a common set of terms for securities, counterparties and activities, BDN can help institutions take a significant step toward a robust approach to…
Thomson Reuters Addresses Valuations Transparency with TV Channel
Thomson Reuters is launching a video channel on its Reuters Insider TV service that will explain the methodologies it uses to underpin its Thomson Reuters Pricing Service for OTC valuations. The channel – the Evaluated Pricing Market Update – seeks to address market calls for greater transparency in evaluated pricing of hard-to-price or illiquid securities….
Opinion: Big Data Solutions to the Problem of Volume
By Amir Halfon, Senior Director for Technology, Capital Markets, Oracle Financial Services With the latest developments in the European debt crisis reverberating across the globe, the importance and necessity of managing the large amounts of data related to risk exposures is apparent more than ever. As I mentioned in my previous blog post, the ability…
Eagle Sees 2012 Focus on Globalisation, EDM and Cloud
Following a record year of revenue and profitability growth in 2011, Eagle Investment Systems expects to continue the trend in 2012, backed by significant investment in R&D and personnel as it expands particularly outside of its US base. According to president John Lehner, the company has added a record number of new clients in 2011…
Latest Release of DataFlux Data Management Platform Expands Support for MDM and Data Governance
DataFlux, a leading provider of data management solutions, today announced the general availability of the DataFlux Data Management Platform 2.2, a single platform for data management, data quality and data integration. The product also provides enhanced master data management (MDM) capabilities and adds features to allow business analysts and data stewards to initiate and manage…
CFTC’s Gary Gensler: Shining a Light on Swaps Transparency
CFTC chairman Gary Gensler has urged market practitioners to rally behind the Dodd-Frank regulatory reforms that will boost transparency in derivatives markets and outlined the steps the derivatives regulatory agency has taken to improve transparency in the swaps markets it oversees. Speaking at a conference hosted by the Office of Financial Research and the Financial…
MoneyMate Releases Enhanced DataManager and Rebrands as Fund ProductMaster
MoneyMate, a specialist provider of investment data quality management solutions, today announced the release of several major enhancements to their flagship platform, DataManager, and the rebranding of the platform as Fund ProductMaster. Fund ProductMaster offers several enhancements via a cloud platform that enables global asset managers to oversee and control the quality, accuracy and timeliness…
Pricing Partners Offers New Methods to Generate Large Volatility Surface for Thomson Reuters Market Data Users
Pricing Partners, the world leader in OTC derivatives pricing analytics, mathematical models and independent valuations, announced today that its award winning Price-it has been upgraded to provide analytical tools to compute large volatility surfaces from option data provided by Thomson Reuters 3000 Xtra or Eikon solution. Indeed, one of the difficulties when pricing structured products…
Moscow Based Bank Implements Quantifi XL for OTC Pricing and Analytics
VTB Capital, the investment banking business of Moscow based VTB Group, has implemented Quantifi’s OTC analytics, pricing and portfolio valuation solution to support its recently established credit derivatives and hybrids trading desks, and to reduce risk. The client and supplier started talking early this year after a Quantifi user from another financial institution joined VTB…
Andrew’s Blog – The Hard Slog That Is Valuations
Great session on transparency in OTC securities at Andaz this week at a breakfast hosted by Interactive Data and featuring a practitioner panel moderated by our own Angela Wilbraham. It’s always refreshing to hear a frank exchange of views, and the panel – including BNP Paribas’ Peter Nowell and HSBC’s Chris Johnson – gave an…