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SmartStream’s North American Growth Continues with Toronto Office Opening and New York Expansion
SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist, today announced further investment across North America as it continues to win new clients in the region. SmartStream’s North American operations have experienced significant growth over recent years with leading US investment banks, hedge funds and asset managers becoming clients. This latest investment reflects both the company’s…
OFI Asset Management Selects Quantifi XL as its Pricing Tool for Structured Products and Distressed Markets
Quantifi, a provider of analytics, trading and risk management solutions for the global capital markets, today announced that OFI Asset Management has selected Quantifi XL for the pricing and analysis of their structured products and distressed market portfolios. OFI is one of Europe’s leading asset management firms, with deep experience in structured products and distressed…
Bloomberg Extends BVAL to Cover Derivatives Valuations: Open and Transparent?
First it claimed to be “open” and now it’s looking to be transparent: data giant Bloomberg has this week extended its valuation service to include pricing services for OTC derivatives. As part of its wider push in the financial services data space this year and in line with the efforts of its main competitors in the…
Eagle’s Chairman Maiuri Adds Customer Focused BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Role to his Remit
Eagle Investment Systems’ chairman Lou Maiuri has added another role to his CV in the form of head of US financial institutions for the vendor’s owner BNY Mellon Asset Servicing’s new Global Financial Institutions (GFI) group. In this new role, which adds to his global head of outsourcing responsibilities for BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, Maiuri…
Broadridge Announces New Tax Forms Plus Solution
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced the rollout of Tax Forms Plus, a new application providing automated tax form processing for securities broker-dealers throughout Canada. With the Tax Forms Plus system, the creation, amendment, duplication and cancellation of a client’s tax forms has been dramatically streamlined, simultaneously offering enhanced scalability, security and flexibility. In addition, the…
JPMorgan’s D’Angelo Adds Reference Data Role to His CV
After more than seven years with investment banking group JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services, Ludwig D’Angelo has added a new reference data string to his financial services bow. D’Angelo, who has been focused on the front office as North American regional manager for trading technology for the last five years, is now in charge of the…
The Ripple Effect
The news last week that entity and counterparty data specialist provider Avox had been snapped up by a willing party in the form of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) comes as no surprise on either front. But what does the sale mean for the other main entity data focused vendor on the scene,…
Advent Enters into Agreement with SuperDerivatives to Provide Pricing and Analytics Services to Geneva Clients
Advent Software, a provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with SuperDerivatives, to offer their multi-asset web analytic system and revaluation services to clients of Geneva, its portfolio management and fund accounting solution. SuperDerivatives provides real-time pricing for simple and complex derivatives…
FactEntry Targets Vendor Community with Data Search and Rescue Offering for Fixed Income Markets
Following two years of development and investment in its flagship and three subsidiary solutions, new data vendor on the block FactEntry is finally ready to begin pitching its wares in earnest, according to Sandeep Dhingra, director of the Indian-based start-up. Thus far, FactEntry has bagged two vendor clients for its Fixed Income Database Objects (FIDO)…
Avox’s Price and DTCC’s Kirby Explain Integration Plans and Utility Potential
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) acquisition of Avox has given the UK-based counterparty and entity data vendor the ownership structure it has long needed to establish itself as an industry utility, according to CEO Ken Price. As noted by Reference Data Review, the appeal for DTCC was in adding the final piece of…