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SIX Telekurs in Partnership with TFG Systems
SIX Telekurs is partnering with TFG Systems, a provider of real time risk and portfolio management software, to deliver real-time and historical financial data to their trading and risk management platform TFG Complete. SIX Telekurs will provide real-time and pricing data via their apiD product to TFG Systems’ flagship product TFG Complete which allows real…
Pricing Partners Released a First Version of the Generic Malliavin Weightings for Greeks in MC and AMC
Pricing Partners announced today to provide a first version of the generic Malliavin Weightings for Greeks in Monte Carlo and American Monte Carlo. Pricing Partners is the first company to provide a generic Malliavin weighting for Greeks in Monte Carlo and American Monte Carlo. This should allow its clients to use less simulation paths to…
CMA Launches Bond Pricing Service for Corporate and Emerging Market Government Bonds
Today CMA launched CMA Datavision Bonds, a service providing daily independent pricing and market metrics for corporate, convertible and emerging market government bonds. CMA Datavision Bonds brings much sought after quality and transparency to bond pricing data, particularly valuable for illiquid bonds, where there can be large variations in pricing. CMA achieves this by applying…
Asset Control’s AC Plus Adopted by Scotiabank for Reference Data Management and Pricing
Asset Control today announced that Scotiabank – headquartered in Toronto, Canada – is going live with the AC Plus financial data management solution for managing security reference data and end of day pricing. Scotiabank selected AC Plus to centralise security master and end of day pricing data content to support core business applications. The Phase…
Chinese Insurance Market Represents a Lot of Potential, Says DST Global Solutions’ Harries
As well as working on its Anova platform offering, DST Global Solutions will be focused on expanding its reach in its core Asian markets this year, including China, according to Geoff Harries, global head of asset servicing for its Investment Management Solutions (IMS) business. Harries, who joined the vendor from Fiserv last year, indicates that…
UBS Global Asset Management is Seeking Synergies Between Data Management and the NAV Calculation Process
As well as working towards a centralised EDM solution, UBS Global Asset Management is also seeking synergies between its reference data management process and its net asset value (NAV) calculation function, according to Markus Kohn, head of data management for the EMEA region at the buy side firm. Speaking at last week’s TSAM conference, he…
Deutsche Bank’s Walker Expounds on the Benefits of an MDM Warehouse
When it comes to the rather “unsexy” problem of tackling a firm’s master data challenges and ensuring that as much point to point architecture has been eliminated as possible, there is nothing better than a master data management (MDM) warehouse, said Shannon Walker, business architect for Finance Change at Deutsche Bank, to delegates at this…
BVI’s Koop Talks up the Potential of FundsXML Standard in Europe, ISO Compatibility, Data Dictionary
Since its initial release in 2001, the FundsXML open standard has gained traction in a number of markets including Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and France for the electronic exchange of funds data. However, Thomas Koop, associate in research and market analysis for German investment fund and asset management industry association BVI, reckons it has the…
Information Mosaic’s New Recruit Wiley on Her Experiences at Swift, Corporate Actions Standards and Career Highlights
Earlier this month, post-trade focused solution vendor Information Mosaic added ex-Capital Group exec Sigrid Wiley to its team as a product specialist for the Americas region. Wiley speaks to Reference Data Review about her career highlights thus far, including her time at Swift, and how she hopes to bring her experience as a practitioner to bear…
Broadridge Launches Mobile Voting on Major Mobile Platforms
Broadridge Financial Solutions announced today that Mobile ProxyVote.com is now live and available for proxy voting and compatible with an array of market-leading mobile devices, including Verizon’s new Apple iPhone 4, as well as the BlackBerry, Android, Microsoft , tablets and other smartphone platforms. “The availability of ProxyVote on thousands of mobile devices is in…