Data Management Insight Data The latest content from across the platform
MSCI Expands Family of ESG Indices
MSCI, a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, announced today the launch of 25 new MSCI ESG Indices, including: · MSCI Global ex Controversial Weapons Indices Nine new MSCI ESG Indices have been developed for use by institutional investors, including pension funds, and Universal Owners who wish to avoid investments in cluster bombs,…
J.P. Morgan Completes Industry’s First Two ‘Second Generation’ Outsourcing Transactions for Asset Managers
J.P. Morgan’s Worldwide Securities Services business (J.P. Morgan WSS) today announced it has successfully completed the industry’s first two migrations of assets from an existing middle and back office services provider to its own strategic platform, on behalf of fund managers Artemis Investment Management (Artemis) and J.P. Morgan Asset Management. The range of services WSS…
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken Extends Relationship with SunGard’s FastVal
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB), one of Europe’s leading banks, has extended its relationship with SunGard’s FastVal, an independent valuation service for vanilla and complex over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. SEB’s prime services offering will now broaden its instrument type coverage through its use of FastVal, when offering its clients an outsourced service for the valuation and risk…
Thomson Reuters Launches Cost Effective Workflow Solution for Hedge Funds
Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of a fully integrated workflow solution bringing together the best in class capabilities including Thomson Reuters Eikon and Elektron to provide the content, portfolio tools and connectivity hedge fund managers need to systematize their operations and drive returns. In an increasingly competitive marketplace hedge funds have been under greater…
Fitch: Solvency II Set to Reshape Asset Allocation and Capital Markets
Fitch Ratings says in a newly-published report that Solvency II, the new regulatory regime for European insurers from 1 January 2013, is poised to transform how insurers allocate their assets, leading to shifts in demand and pricing for several asset classes. The report, entitled “Solvency II Set to Reshape Asset Allocation and Capital Markets”, highlights…
Oracle Introduces Oracle Financial Services Hedge Management and IFRS Valuations
· Oracle Financial Services Hedge Management and IFRS Valuations is now available to help financial institutions easily comply with regulatory requirements for International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). · New IFRS requirements for documentation and transparency make manual and siloed hedge accounting and valuation processes impractical. Given market volatility, hedge accounting must be a fully automated…
MSCI ESG Research Launches New ESG Manager Platform with Impact Monitor
MSCI, a leading provider of investment decision support tools, announced today MSCI ESG Research’s launch of MSCI ESG Manager, a new integrated platform designed to provide asset managers and owners with an integrated suite of tools to efficiently manage research, analysis and compliance tasks across the spectrum of ESG factors. With the launch of MSCI…
Pricing Partners Speeds up General Callable Range Accrual Computation Leveraging Closed Form Solutions
Pricing Partners announced today to have implemented specific closed form solution for general callable range accrual products speeding up the computation by a factor of 100. End users are interested in computing their derivatives books at a portfolio level. Traditionally, the callable range accrual on CMS Spreads takes long time to price when using a…
ANZ Selects Serisys to Implement the Syn~ Platform Across its Global Markets Business
Serisys Solutions, a provider of IT solutions and services to the capital markets, announced today that it has signed a global agreement with ANZ for the implementation, roll out and 24×7 support of the Syn~ platform across its Global Markets business. Serisys will implement Syn~ as ANZ Global Markets’ unified post-trade transaction processing system for…
Natixis Further Reinforces Coverage
Laurent Capes appointed Senior Banker Laurent Capes started his career with the World Bank in 1997. In 1999, he joined the Emerging Markets division within the Treasury Directorate at the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry. In 2001, in the Financial Markets office of the Treasury Directorate, he worked on several privatization transactions. He…