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Hedge Fund CQS Selects OTC Valuations to Deliver Valuation Reports
Following OTC Valuations’ (OTC Val) acquisition by Tullett Prebon earlier this year, OTC Val has been selected by leading hedge fund CQS, to provide monthly independent valuation reports for their complex structured credit portfolio. Shaun Brick, head of product control at CQS, commented: “As part of CQS’s continuing process of enhancing control and pricing accuracy…
ECB Indicates Preliminary Price of 13 Cents Per Instruction for T2S Settlement with 30 CSDs on Board
The European Central Bank (ECB) has released its preliminary price estimates for settlement on its Target2-Securities (T2S) settlement system, due to be launched in September 2014, which indicate that if all 30 European central securities depositories (CSDs) join, settlement could be as low as 13 cents per settlement instruction. This will therefore essentially split the…
StatPro Evaluated Pricing Service Selected by BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research
StatPro, a global provider of portfolio analysis software and asset valuations, today announced that it will become the primary independent provider of evaluated pricing for BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research Bond Indices for Canada, Mexico and Brazil. StatPro’s fixed income methodologies incorporate bond terms and conditions, proprietary pricing models and real-time quotes from contributing dealers….
QuIC’s Record Growth Spurs Move to Larger UK Office
QuIC Financial Technologies, a risk management, pricing and analytic solutions vendor, has today announced the relocation of the company’s London office to a larger facility at the historic old Stock Exchange Building, situated at 125 Old Broad Street. The move enables QuIC to support the increasing global demand for its risk management solutions, and the…
DTCC Opts for Ex-Morgan Stanley Exec Garrison to Head up Technology Development
To support its ambitions to set itself up as utility provider and to ensure that it stays ahead of the technology development curve, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has recruited ex-Morgan Stanley managing director Robert Garrison to head up its IT division. Garrison will join as chief development officer for the division in…
Heads Will Roll
The sobering news this month that a number of financial services firms are already planning to (or likely to be compelled to) drastically reduce their headcounts in the back office could spell trouble for the data management job market, but good news for the vendor community. The profile of the data cause may have risen…
IMF Publishes Possible Revisions to its Data Quality Assessment Framework
Given the regulatory community’s crackdown on data quality across the financial services industry, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) recently published paper on the improvement of its data quality assessment framework indicators is judiciously timed. In the paper, the IMF’s statistics department suggests improvements to its current set of metrics against which to measure the quality,…
SmartStream Announces Partnership with Longtop to Distribute TLM Solutions Across China
SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist, today announced that it has formed a new partnership with Longtop, a software development and solutions provider targeting the financial services industry in China. Longtop will integrate SmartStream’s suite of Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) solutions to complement its existing technologies and services. Longtop’s expertise across the financial…
US SEC Charges Broker-Dealer Pinnacle Capital Markets with AML Related Customer Data Management Failings
In a move that mirrors some of the actions being taken across the pond with regards to customer data infractions, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged US-based broker-dealer Pinnacle Capital Markets with failing to comply with a key piece of anti-money laundering (AML) legislation and forced it to pay out a US$25,000 fine….
IPUG Ramps up Lobbying Activities, Targets Bloomberg as First on a Long List of Vendors Under the Spotlight
The Information Providers User Group’s (IPUG) last annual general meeting saw the confirmation of the main deliverables for the group over the next year, including the highlighting of a number of vendor solutions to come under the group’s scrutiny. One of IPUG’s key activities of late has been the lobbying of the vendor community and…