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Misys and Numerix Expand Global Partnership to Bring Further Innovation in Financial Instrument Creation
Misys, a global application software and services company and Numerix, a provider of cross-asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management, today announced the expansion of their global partnership and distribution agreement. The two companies have been working closely together as partners since 2001 with more than 50 shared customers as a result. The extended…
EDGAR Online and UBmatrix to Merge, Creating Global XBRL Leader
EDGAR Online and UBmatrix today announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement that would create the first global end-to-end provider of solutions for the creation, validation and analysis of XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) content. UBmatrix is one of the original inventors of the XBRL financial standard, which is being mandated worldwide by many…
Bombay Stock Exchange Opts for Swift’s Corporate Action Service, Four Custodians Already on Board
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has rolled out Swift’s corporate actions service to provide custodians in the Indian and international market with automated data on Indian corporate actions events. Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank, Citibank and HSBC have thus far signed up for the service, which went live in May, and a number of other…
Interactive Data Expands Evaluated Pricing Offerings
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics, and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business has broadened its evaluated pricing offerings for clients. Recent enhancements to the evaluated pricing coverage include: New evaluations coverage: for more than 10,000 fixed income instruments in the past month, including newly-issued securities…
RBC Dexia Survey Indicates That 64% of Italian Asset Managers Planning to Invest in Risk Management
The Italian asset management community is well apprised of the risk management challenges it faces as a result of the incoming Bank of Italy rules relating to these firms’ governance structures, but it still has a long way to go before it is ready, according to a recent survey conducted by custodian bank RBC Dexia….
GoldenSource’s Stock and Meriton Discuss Potential to be a Direct Technology Provider to the Office of Financial Research
Given that the Office of Financial Research has been a hotly debated topic within the industry of late (even if the regulatory community has been rather quiet on the subject), it is no surprise that vendors are keen to offer their services to those charged with establishing such a data utility. One such vendor is…
BNL Vita Selects SunGard’s FastVal for Independent Valuation of Complex Derivatives
BNL Vita, an Italian banking insurance company that specialises in the life sector, has selected SunGard’s FastVal, an independent valuation service for vanilla and complex over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, to independently value its client’s portfolios. FastVal 3.0, which is delivered on an ASP basis, will help BNL Vita increase its operational efficiency when valuing complex OTC…
Volante Extends Messaging Support in FX Data and Settlements
Volante Technologies today announced its expansion in the foreign exchange messaging world with the availability of high-speed integration technology for price data from the Currenex ESP, as well as an integration model for the CLS settlement environment. Originally developed to integrate Currenex Executable Streaming Price (ESP) data into the low-latency data management architecture of a…
GlobeOp NAV Transparency Report Offers Independent Governance Data to Hedge Fund Investors
GlobeOp Financial Services, has launched the GlobeOp NAV Transparency Report to help fund managers provide investors with greater visibility into the monthly calculation of a portfolio’s net asset value (NAV). “Fund managers recognise that good governance attracts further investment,” said Tony Glickman, global head of Risk Services at GlobeOp. “Pension funds and other institutional investors,…
FINCAD Responds to Customer Needs for Greater Risk Management and Transparency
With the recent US Senate approved bill that means sweeping overhaul of financial regulation and calls for more transparency and prudent risk management, FINCAD, the industry standard for financial analytics, announced the launch of F3 Excel Edition. In a recent FINCAD survey, financial professionals revealed a greater need for detailed risk management models and better…