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Bond Pricing Agency Malaysia To Market Interactive Data’s Fixed Income Evaluated Pricing
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business has signed an agreement with the Bond Pricing Agency Malaysia Sdn Bhd (BPA Malaysia), a leading national bond pricing agency, to make available international fixed-income evaluated pricing to the Malaysian market. Based in…
S&P Fixed Income Valuations Deal is Part of Wider Data Aggregation Challenge, GlobeOp’s Anderson Explains
Fund administrator GlobeOp Financial Services has signed a deal with Standard & Poor’s Valuation and Risk Strategies business (what was known as the Fixed Income Risk Management Services or FIRMS division until recently), under which the ratings agency’s subsidiary will provide GlobeOp with valuations for a range of fixed income securities. Jon Anderson, global head…
Reval Version 10.0 Continues to Shape Future of SaaS for Derivative Risk Management and Hedge Accounting
From its annual client conference in New York, Reval, the global leader in derivative risk management and hedge accounting solutions, announced today the spring release of its single-version, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, Reval 10.0. Updates in the new version provide the foundation for a go-forward platform planned since Reval’s acquisition of FXpress last fall. “In addition…
Standard & Poor’s Provides Independent Fixed Income Valuations to GlobeOp Financial Services
S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies, an independent and analytically separate business unit within Standard & Poor’s, has been selected to provide independent valuations for a wide range of fixed income securities to GlobeOp Financial Services, a leading independent provider of automated, integrated middle- and back-office, administration and risk reporting services to hedge funds and asset…
FRSGlobal Fine Tuning Fair Value Pricing Models for Emission Linked Derivatives, Says Brammertz
Risk and regulatory reporting solution vendor FRSGlobal is currently endeavouring to develop new valuation models in order to gauge the fair value prices of emission linked derivatives contracts, according to Willi Brammertz, senior risk advisor at the vendor. Although political concerns are holding back some degree of progress with regards to these new instruments, Brammertz…
UnaVista to Offer Transaction Reporting Service
The London Stock Exchange announced today that the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has given UnaVista Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) status for transaction reporting. In addition to providing the basic validation services required under MiFID, UnaVista will offer firms validation tools to monitor the quality of their transaction reports, significantly reducing the risk of providing incorrect…
Pricing Partners Provides Local Support in Hong Kong
Pricing Partners will provide local support to its Asian clients based out of Hong Kong and respond to the increasing requirements of independent valuations for financial derivatives and structured products. Following a distribution agreement in Hong Kong and a new office in Singapore, Pricing Partners continues to effectively provide permanent local support and quantitative expertise…
Interactive Data’s Pricing and Reference Data Biz Revenue up 3.8% in First Quarter 2010
Regardless of the long term future of its Pricing and Reference Data business (whether it is eventually spun off, merged with another business or remains exactly where it is), it has performed well so far this year for Interactive Data with a 3.8% increase in revenue for the business line over the previous year’s figures….
Majority of PRMIA Members Back the Establishment of a US-based Data Utility
US Republican senator Richard Shelby may be sceptical about the Financial Services Bill’s proposals for the establishment of a data collection agency, but US risk management professionals are seemingly keen for such a utility to be introduced. According to a recent survey of chief risk officers (CROs) by the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA)…
Kurtosys Systems Transforms the Way Asset Managers Deliver Enterprise Data with the Launch of the EDM Solution
Kurtosys Systems Limited, a provider of client communication solutions today announced the release of their Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform for asset management. Developed in partnership with Talend, a market innovator in open source data integration, Kurtosys EDM provides an integrated platform for managing an organisation’s information systems, with functionality for data extraction, modelling, capture,…