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Royal Bank of Scotland Selects SmartCo for Centralized Securities Reference and Price Data Management
SmartCo, a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management software solutions for the financial industry, is pleased to announce that the Royal Bank of Scotland Global Banking & Markets (GBM) has gone live with its innovative data management software solution, SmartCo DataHub. GBM intends to use SmartCo DataHub to centralize and manage all the security reference…
Pricing Partners Strengthens its Commodity Module with Automatic Seasonality Computation
Pricing Partners, the independent valuation expert and a world leader in mathematical models for valuations of derivatives and structured products, announced today that its commodity pricing library, Price-it, now contains automatic detection of seasonality in commodity module. Commodity futures prices especially on energy exhibit strong seasonality. The Pricing Partners library now automatically detects and calculates…
DataArt Announces its Role in Completing Development for XSP
DataArt, a high-end software development company headquartered in New York with R&D centers in Eastern Europe today announced it has completed enhancements for XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions software. The XSP v5 platform is the state-of-the-art solution from XSP developed to automate each step in the processing of global Corporate Actions….
Royal Bank of Scotland Centralises Reference Data Using SmartCo DataHub
Royal Bank of Scotland’s Global Banking & Markets (GBM) group has gone live with SmartCo’s DataHub enterprise data management platform. GBM is using the system to centralise and manage all the security reference data and end-of-day pricing, creating a hub that will serve all bank departments. GBM selected DataHub after a period of extensive market…
StatPro Discovers Solution to the Liquidity Risk Paradox
StatPro Group, a leading provider of portfolio analysis and asset valuation services for the global asset management industry, announces a major breakthrough in its risk measurement research. StatPro has designed an innovative approach to measuring market liquidity risk that does not rely only on observed bid, ask and volumes. Instead, factors such as market capitalisation,…
DTCC and SWIFT Launch ISO 20022 Corporate Actions Messaging Pilot Program
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,500 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, announced today that Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) has agreed to participate in a new ISO 20022 corporate actions messaging pilot program. The pilot program being run by DTCC will…
XSP and Decillion Group Has Been Selected by Daiwa Capital Markets for Global Corporate Actions Processing
XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions software, announced today at SIBOS 2010 that Daiwa Capital Markets has selected the XSP v5 solution to automate its Corporate Actions processing via the Decillion Group platform. Decillion Group, a banking software solutions provider and operator of the largest SWIFT Service Bureau in the APAC region,…
SIX Telekurs Corporate Actions Available Through ValueLink
ValueLink Information Services Ltd. and SIX Telekurs are pleased to announce the extension of their data partnership relationship to include corporate actions information. SIX Telekurs and ValueLink have enjoyed a long and successful history providing price validation services to major fund managers and fund administrators. Adding industry-leading corporate actions data into the service builds on…
And So it Begins…
Sibos 2010 kicked off this morning to a rather drizzly but promising start; with around 8,000 odd delegates registered for the annual Swift user conference in Amsterdam, it’s set to be a busy week. The securities market infrastructure session began proceedings by debating the benefits of competition versus consolidation in the evolving global market: a…
More Buy Side Firms Turning to Third Party Valuations Than Ever Before, Indicates A-Team Group Valuations Benchmarking Study
More and more buy side firms are turning from proprietary and broker-supplied pricing to third party valuations and this is set to rise even further, according to a recent A-Team Group benchmarking study. The majority, at 82%, of the asset management and securities services firm respondents indicated that they rely on third party external sources…