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Reval Poll Shows Most End-User Costs Would Increase to Comply with Dodd-Frank
In a live webinar poll last week hosted by Reval, the premiere Software-as-a-Service provider for financial risk management, 68 percent of non-financial end-users of derivatives said that they do not have a Credit Support Annex (CSA) in place with counterparties to their OTC derivative contracts, indicating potential cost impacts for key compliance requirements expected under…
SimCorp Releases IFRS 9 Guide for Investment Firms
SimCorp, a leading provider of highly specialised software and expertise for the investment industry, announced today its guide to the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 9. The guide examines how investment firms can benefit from new measurement models and how they can leverage their IT platform to ensure compliance with the new regulation. The IFRS…
Latest SAS Risk Management Offerings for Banking, Insurance Help Address Regulations, Risk
To address evolving risk management practices and regulatory requirements, such as Basel III and Solvency II, SAS has ramped up risk management solutions for both banking and insurance with enhancements to SAS Risk Management for Banking and SAS Risk Management for Insurance. Leading organizations relying on enterprise risk solutions from SAS, the leader in business…
Standard & Poor’s VRS and Sapient Global Markets Alliance
Sapient Global Markets and Standard and Poor’s Valuation and Risk Strategies (S&P VRS) have today announced a formal alliance to provide clients with in-depth valuation and analysis of structured finance securities including asset- and mortgage-backed securities (ABS/MBS), and covered bonds. The agreement will address the need for transparency and risk management for large volume portfolios,…
Asset Control to Deliver Enriched Price Construction, Curves Leveraging FINCAD’s Analytics Library
Asset Control, the world-wide leader in financial data management solutions, is partnering with FINCAD to offer mutual customers enhanced valuation and analytics for fixed income, derivatives and curves firm-wide through integration between Asset Control’s AC Plus data management platform and FINCAD’s industry leading financial analytical library. Accurate and consistent financial valuation analytics alongside prices are…
Reval’s Okochi and Trozzo Highlight Valuations and Data Impacts of US Swaps Market Reforms
It seems everyone’s talking about the data impacts of the Dodd Frank reforms at the moment. Last week, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) hosted a public roundtable on the subject of the new recordkeeping requirements and related standards efforts, and derivatives risk and valuations solution provider Reval also hosted its own webinar on the…
SIX Telekurs and FinancialCAD Extend Data and Analytics Partnership
SIX Telekurs, a leading financial information provider, and FINCAD, a provider of industry standard financial analytics, are pleased to announce that they have signed agreements to extend their long-standing partnership. The extended relationship allows FINCAD’s customers to take advantage of SIX Telekurs’ rich database of global securities prices in FINCAD’s online derivatives valuation service,…
ISMAG’s Gubert Promotes Voluntary Corporate Actions Standardisation and a “Bottom up” Approach in Europe
Earlier this year the International Securities Market Advisory Group (ISMAG) released its Operational Market Practice Book, which details the roles and responsibilities of the participants in the end to end corporate actions chain. John Gubert, chairman of the association, explained at this week’s Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) seminar why his association has taken…
PolarLake Announce Support for Bitemporal Data
Today PolarLake announces support for Bitemporal Data in the PolarLake Data Management Platform. This will allow clients to make changes to Historic Data, view the changes to Historic Data over time and also look at the detailed history of the Data updates. This extends PolarLake’s capabilities in processing Financial Data such as Pricing, Trade and…
Virginie’s Blog – Guess Which Country in Europe is Furthest Ahead with Corporate Actions Standardisation…?
When I found out this week which European country is furthest ahead with regards to the adoption of the Corporate Actions Joint Working Group’s (CAJWG) standards it certainly surprised me. But when you realise the role and the approach that the central securities depository (CSD) in the country has adopted, it all makes sense… And…