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EDI and the Commodities Research Bureau Team up to Deliver the Best Quality Commodity Pricing Data
Exchange Data International (EDI), a well established provider of Securities Corporate Actions and Reference Data, today announced a new commodity pricing service in collaboration with the Commodities Research Bureau (CRB), the world’s leading commodity and futures research, data and analysis firm since 1934. With this partnership, EDI is now able to offer its clients comprehensive…
Fitch Solutions Launches Global CDS Indices
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, has today launched a new family of global CDS indices – including 15 regional sovereign indices, over 40 industry level corporate indices and a further 70 sub-sector corporate indices – which are designed to provide portfolio and risk managers with a comprehensive insight into the direction of…
Interactive Data Adds Ex-Omgeo and GoldenSource Exec McCormick to Ref Data Team
In line with its ongoing restructuring under the watchful eye of its private equity owners, Interactive Data has hired ex-Omgeo and GoldenSource exec Fritz McCormick to act as a senior product director for its Pricing and Reference Data segment. McCormick joins from Aite Group where he was a senior analyst with a focus on enterprise…
Broadridge Financial Solutions Today Acquires Palaydyne Systems for Approximately $76.5 Million
To significantly expand its services to buy-side clients, Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced the acquisition of Paladyne Systems for approximately $76.5 million in consideration subject to various adjustments. Paladyne is a rapidly growing provider of a market-leading set of solutions to enable global, multi-asset class investment managers and service providers to work more effectively, minimize…
New Research from MSCI on Integrating ESG into the Investment Process
In recent years, many institutional investors have been increasingly recognizing that the long-term sustainability of their investments matters. Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors are becoming important considerations for investors to focus on given their influence on a portfolio’s risk and return profile. Some asset owners are starting to embrace the concept of “Universal Ownership”,…
Interactive Data Survey Highlights Importance of Fair Value Practices During Volatile Markets
Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of independent pricing and valuation services, today announced key findings from its recent survey of mutual fund firms on fair value procedures for international equities. The survey findings revealed that using “triggers” to invoke fair value procedures continues to be a common practice for mutual funds. These triggers may…
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…