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A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Drivers

Intro to the event and valuations performance benchmarking by moderator Angela Wilbraham, A-Team’s CEO, introduction to our panellists, and discussion about the drivers for valuations data spend that our buy-side institutions and securities services firms’ survey participants are responding to. In particular, a focus on the types of regulations and the type of impact they…

A-Team Group Interview about Valuations Data Benchmarking Results

A three minute overview about the valuations data seminar, organised by Interactive Data and moderated by A-Team Group, and the findings from A-Team’s recent performance benchmarking survey on valuations data. Andrew Delaney discusses the focus with A-Team’s CEO Angela Wilbraham. Running time: 3 minutes 4 seconds

DTCC’s Lancaster Joins Swift as MD of Securities for the Americas

Following more than six years as vice president of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) Global Corporate Actions (GCA) business unit, earlier this year Brett Lancaster joined industry network operator Swift as its new managing director of Securities for the Americas region. In line with his work alongside Swift and XBRL US in the…

GoldenSource’s Vanlint Elaborates on Heightened Focus on Risk Data Management

EDM vendor GoldenSource’s recent risk data management focused launch is reflective of the requirement in the market for increased transparency around the data used to make risk management decisions, explains Neill Vanlint, managing director of Europe and Asia at the vendor. Regulatory developments such as Basel III and Solvency II are driving firms to adopt…

SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Exfeed Publish Consultation Paper on Reference Markets

SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Exfeed have published their questionnaire to consult with market participants and regulators on the significance of reference markets for securities and the rules which should govern them. All stakeholders are invited to give their valuable input until 30 November 2010. Link: http://www.six-swiss-exchange.com/download/participants/consultation.pdf The issues raised can broadly be split into…

Information Mosaic’s O’Donnell Talks up ING’s Deployment of IMConnecting

Information Mosaic used this year’s Sibos as the platform to launch its new IMConnecting solution, which purports to provide a next gen interface to the post-trade environment for front office users and clients with its handheld device compatibility. Custody bank ING is the first to implement the solution in beta form and will install it…

SuperDerivatives and Algorithmics to Deliver Exceptional Risk Management Across OTC Derivatives to the Buy and Sell Side

SuperDerivatives (SD), the derivatives benchmark and multi asset front office system, has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Algorithmics, a provider of risk solutions, to offer banks, funds and asset managers a comprehensive solution to improve their risk management capabilities. The collaboration, which is subject to final contract, includes two elements: integrated data for…

Data Infrastructure and Corporate Actions Sibos Panels Highlight Barriers to Standardisation, Appetite for Regulatory Compulsion

The numerous challenges standing in the way of establishing industry wide data infrastructures such as data repositories for the OTC markets and achieving greater standardisation of the corporate actions space were elaborated upon by a number of speakers at this year’s Sibos. The challenge of standardising this data on a firm wide level is multiplied…

iPads, Apps and Tweets, Oh My!

One of the most notable things about this year’s Sibos, on both the exhibition floor and in the sessions, was the prevalence of mobile technology. Many of the vendors and banks in attendance were touting their new apps to bring the middle and back office into the 21st century. Whether it was the ability to…

CQG Integrates with FOW TRADEdata Xymbology

FOW TRADEdata announced today the integration of CQG instrument codes into its Xymbology product for the futures and options market. Xymbology is an identifier mapping service for exchange-traded futures and options contracts. CQG is a provider of integrated order execution, charting, and analytics for global, electronically traded futures markets. CQG offers real-time and historical data…