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Pricing Partners Provides Smoother and Faster Greeks for its PDE Engine
Pricing Partners announced today to enhance its derivatives pricing library with smoother and faster Greeks for its PDE engine. In an effort to provide faster and smoother Greeks for its generic PDE engine, Pricing Partners has recently enhanced its generic PDE grid engine equipped with on-the-fly Greeks calculations with a fixed grid. This accelerates substantially…
SEC Proposes Amendments to Remove Credit Ratings References in Several Rules Under the Exchange Act
In keeping with its ongoing crackdown on the credit ratings agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has this week voted unanimously to propose amendments that would remove references to credit ratings in several rules under the Exchange Act. This is all part of the requirements contained in Dodd Frank to remove references to credit…
SIX Telekurs’ Filanowski Highlights the Biggest Data Challenges of Dodd Frank
The Dodd Frank Act contains a whole host of new and different data requirements in terms of reporting formats and potential standards, but how will all of this impact the practitioner and vendor communities directly? Reference Data Review speaks to Paul Filanowski, US product development at SIX Telekurs, about the changing US regulatory scene and how it…
Interactive Data’s Williams Heads to Rival SIX Telekurs for Senior US Sales Role
Following the post-acquisition management shake-up at Interactive Data, former president of institutional sales Cort Williams has jumped ship to join data vendor rival SIX Telekurs as its new executive vice president for sales and business development in the Americas region. Williams, who has been with Interactive Data since 1996, will focus on direct and redistributor…
Euroclear’s Kuhnel on ANNA’s Potential as a Registration Authority, What to Expect this Year on Legal Entity IDs
As elaborated upon by WMDatenservice’s Markus Heer earlier this year, the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) is pitching itself as a suitable registration authority for the new legal entity identification (LEI) standard underlying the US Office of Financial Research (OFR). Dan Kuhnel, chairman of ANNA and director for primary markets and international fixed income…
Data Quality on the Brain
The last thing I expected to hear during a panel on low latency technology deployment at this week’s Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading (catchily dubbed BTLLT by fellow A-Teamers) conference in London was speakers talking about reference data quality. But that’s what happened. Everywhere I go people are talking about data quality. They might…
Quantifi to Provide Leading ASEAN Investment Bank Pricing and Analysis Solutions
Quantifi, a provider of analytics, trading and risk management solutions for the global capital markets, today announced that CIMB Group’s investment banking division has selected its pricing and risk analytics solutions, Quantifi XL, to support its expanding operations. CIMB Group is Malaysia’s second largest financial services provider and one of Southeast Asia’s leading universal banking…
Pricing Control and Data Governance for Valuations is High on Industry Agenda, Says PaceMetrics’ Severs
Given the regulatory focus on increased transparency, financial institutions are putting much more emphasis on “control and influence” of valuations data, according to Dick Severs, senior buy side consultant at EDM solution vendor PaceMetrics. Severs, who joined the vendor in 2009 from ING Investment Management, reckons investment in pricing control and data governance by fund…
S&P Increases Value Added Content on ABSXchange and Announces 25 New Clients
S&P’s structured finance analytics platform, ABSXchange, has undergone a number of improvements designed to aid market participants’ analysis of their ABS and RMBS portfolios. These improvements will allow clients to run projections against forecasted index rates; view the formulae used in calculated benchmarks including underlying values; aggregate asset valuation metrics such as price and yield…
ISDA Proposes to Use FpML to Link Unique IDs to Standardised Derivatives and a New Central Derivative Product Registry
In line with the recent regulatory driven study into derivatives instrument identification, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has released proposals to link unique IDs to these instruments and has called for the establishment of a new central derivative product registry infrastructure. The proposals are contained in a recent white paper, which suggests that…