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PaceMetrics’ Giblin and Boon Talk up the Benefits of a Lean EDM Model
It may have been a quiet start for PaceMetrics in the enterprise data management (EDM) space when it bagged its first EDM client back in 2004, but the vendor is hoping to raise its profile in the space over the course of this year, according to CEO Gerry Giblin and director of global sales and…
Pricing Partners Selected by Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking to Provide Independent Valuation of its Derivatives
Pricing Partners announced today that its platform Price-it Online has been selected by Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking to provide independent valuations on their equity, fixed income and credit derivative products. The topic of double valuations on financial derivatives has been of increasing importance in recent times. Eric Benhamou, CEO of Pricing Partners comments:…
FISD Launches Financial Information Associate Certification
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announces the launch of its new “Financial Information Associate” certification – the very first offering of its kind in this industry sector and the first to come out of the FISD Professional Certification program. As of May 2010, early adopters from…
BNP Paribas Fund Services Australasia Signs Multi-Year Proxy Services Agreement with Broadridge
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced that BNP Paribas Fund Services Australasia Pty has signed a multi-year agreement to use Broadridge’s Global Proxy processing services for its clients in the Australasia region. BNP Paribas, already a user of Broadridge’s proxy processing services through its France-headquartered global securities services business, has now agreed to use the Broadridge…
Interactive Data Provides Probate Valuation Service To Title Research
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data Business is providing its Probate Valuations service to Title Research, an estate administration and specialist probate research company. Launched in 2006, the service can help clients to value UK and international securities for probate…
Another One Jumps Ship at Fiserv: Hopcroft Joins XSP as Senior Sales Exec
Following the exit of ex-Investment Services head Geoff Harries and ex-marketing head Irene Mulkeen earlier this year, Fiserv has lost yet another corporate actions focused executive in the form of former sales exec Ben Hopcroft, who has joined eVent rival XSP. Hopcroft is now senior sales executive and account relationship manager for the EMEA region…
LSE’s Husler Explains Decision Behind the Move of its Transaction Reporting Service onto UnaVista
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has offered a transaction reporting service, dubbed the Exchange Reporting Service (ERS), since 2002, but has recently moved the service onto its web-hosted platform UnaVista. According to Mark Husler, head of information services business development at the LSE, the exchange operator decided to move the service onto the platform in…
Fitch Solutions Provides CDS Pricing for Korean Won
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, has extended its CDS Pricing Service to offer derived CDS pricing for Korean Won (KRW) CDS contracts, bringing transparency to this highly illiquid market to improve users’ investment and risk management decisions. Covering the Korean corporate and financial sectors, the new service is based on a proprietary…
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…