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Siag Consulting and Pricing Partners Team up for Broad Distribution in Iberia and LATAM
Pricing Partners and Siag Consulting International, a tier 1 consulting and systems implementation specialist based in Madrid, have announced today a partnership covering Iberia and LATAM. Siag’s expertise in Market and Credit risk management provides the deep domain expertise to partner with Pricing Partners in advising and supporting client valuation methodologies given the increased requirement…
SWIFT Looks to Fill “Payment Gap” Worth Billions of Euros, Caused by Poor Reference Data
SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,700 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, today announced the launch of SWIFTRef, a family of products that aims to eliminate costly payment errors arising from bad data, and increase straight-through-processing (STP). Thirty percent of non-STP payments are caused by bad reference data, and with manual…
Virginie’s Blog – Reference Data @ Sibos
Ahead of Swift’s annual conference later this month, here’s a quick roundup of the reference data related sessions on the agenda for those heading to Toronto (and a preview for those of you who will be waiting for A-Team coverage of the event). In keeping with Swift’s extended ambitions in the reference data standards space…
Pricing Partners Extends its Solution for Correlation and Dispersion Swaps
Pricing Partners announced today that it has extended Price-it language to price faster correlation and dispersion swaps. Correlation and dispersion swaps allow taking view on implied versus historical correlation. These products have been popular for a few years. Pricing them in a generic scripting language payoff framework could be very cumbersome. Hence, Pricing Partners developed…
SIX Telekurs Completes New Round of Expansion of its Global Real-Time Market Data Services
SIX Telekurs has added 35 sources of real-time market data from global exchanges, institutional contributors and financial news providers since the beginning of 2011. This expansion of services brings better access to market information in the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Northern Europe. The additional real-time sources, which include upgraded services…
BDO M&A Survey 2011 – Strong M&A Demand Hampered By “Valuation Gap”
BDO, the accountancy and business advisory firm, today released its annual M&A Survey, polling the views of CEOs and Financial Directors of mid-market companies1. Key findings included: 55% of companies that sought to make a transaction in the last 12 months failed to do so. On average one transaction has been completed for every eight…
EDI Open a New Branch in Montreal and Appoints David Mallette
Exchange Data International (EDI) the specialist provider of global Reference and Corporate Actions Data has opened a new branch in Montreal to service its existing and growing Canadian clientele. At the same time, EDI has appointed David Mallette to advise on the Canadian Equity and Fixed Income market. Prior to his appointment at EDI, David…
Asset Control Enhances Data Coverage and Flexibility with Thomson Reuters Content
Asset Control, provider of financial data management solutions and services, has expanded the data coverage of its AC Plus data management solution with the addition of request-based content from Thomson Reuters DataScope Select, the strategic data delivery platform for non-streaming, cross-asset, global content. By accessing Thomson Reuters static content through AC Plus, customers will be…
Murphy Departs ING for Product Owner Role at Asset Control in the Netherlands
Nick Murphy, who up until recently was a data specialist for pricing and evaluations at ING Investment Management in the Netherlands, has departed the investment management firm to join EDM vendor Asset Control as a product owner in its Dutch office. Murphy, who was with ING for a total of seven years, last year, spoke…
DataFlux Gains Solvency II Momentum with New European Insurance Customers
DataFlux, a leading provider of data management solutions, today announced that nine European insurance firms have selected its technology over the past few quarters to underpin their Solvency II data management initiatives. The DataFlux Solvency II data governance framework is being used by firms to take practical steps to adhere to a wide range of…