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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…
Patrick Williamon Joins XSP as Quality Assurance Manager
XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions solutions, today announced that Patrick Williamon has joined the Company as a Quality Assurance Manager. This appointment has been further supported by new hires within its Quality Assurance and Development teams. Williamon joins XSP as the Quality Assurance Manager, responsible for running the day-to-day operation of…
Markit Boosts Index Business Scalability with XSP CA Platform Upgrade
Markit’s renewal and extension of its corporate actions processing platform deal with XSP will allow it to expand its operations to serve more customers and make more calculations while maintaining accuracy and timeliness. As part of the renewal, Markit has added XSP’s Headline Indices functionality to the XSP v5 platform it operates in-house. According to…
And the Winner Is….
It’s that time of the year again. No, not that time. It’s time for A-Team’s Valuations in European Buy-Side Institutions Performance Benchmarking survey! Now in its second year, our benchmarking survey is the industry’s opportunity to have its say on the performance of its suppliers. We recently published the results of the North American version…
MoneyMate’s Smyth Elaborates Further on the M&G Investments’ Implementation
M&G Investments first looked at establishing a new product master data solution for its 50-odd retail funds back in the summer of 2009 and, after a detailed and in-depth couple of years of background research and planning, it has finally rolled out the first phase of buy side data management specialist vendor MoneyMate’s DataManager solution….