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Syntel Launches Pricing Services for Capital Markets, New Service Offering Powered by Numerix
Syntel, a global information technology services and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) company, today announced that it will begin providing independent pricing services to the company’s global buy side and sell side clients. Syntel will utilise Numerix’s cross-asset pricing and risk analytic technology to power the new offering. Syntel will also combine Numerix CrossAsset models and…
$2.7 BILLION!
Is it the government debt of a small former Eastern European country? No. Is it the total value of the European financial information business? Depends on who you ask, but that’s not what we’re thinking. Is it Mike Bloomberg’s 2009 dividend from the activities of his eponymous market data vendor business? Nah, too low. No,…
GoldenSource Partners with Xenomorph to Centralise Market and Reference Data
GoldenSource has partnered with analytics and data management specialist Xenomorph to offer the GoldenSource Market Data Solution (GSMDS), a single platform for market and reference data management that gives risk officers what GoldenSource describes as “a 360 degree view of all risk related data”. GoldenSource looked at a number of potential partners and considered the…
UK FSA’s SCV: If You’re a Deposit Taking Institution, it Applies to You
As noted by Reference Data Review recently), the UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) incoming Single Customer View (SCV) reforms, which are part of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), will require a significant amount of effort to create new data linkages in order for the institutions covered by the regulation to be ready to report…
Ex-HSBC EDM Head Hinds Joins Credit Suisse as Programme Manager for Reference Data
Following her exit from HSBC at the start of this year, data management champion and regular FIMA speaker Sally Hinds has resurfaced as Credit Suisse’s new manager in charge of running the firm’s global reference data governance programme. At HSBC she spent more than four years as global head of EDM of the bank’s Global…
XBRL US Campaigns to Extend Tagging into ABS Markets for Source Documents
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may have mandated XBRL tagging for financial reporting but XBRL US is also keen to extend its reach into the asset backed securities (ABS) markets. In a recent testimony to the US Domestic Policy Subcommittee Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Mark Bolgiano, president and CEO of XBRL US, recommended…
Investec Asset Management Planning to Rationalise London and Cape Town Data Hubs This Year, Says Schoonraad
Following its implementation of the Netik InterView data warehouse in separate iterations at its Cape Town and London operations, which began back in 2004 and was completed last year, Investec Asset Management is now planning to rationalise these two data warehouses so that it can operate from a single global data warehouse. Waldi Schoonraad, UK…
Auris Gestion Privee Chooses Pricing Partners for the Independent Valuation of its Structured Products
Pricing Partners announced today that Auris Gestion Privée has selected the Price-it Online platform for the independent valuation of its structured products. Marc de Saint Denis, chairman of Auris Gestion Privée, commented: “Our company had been looking for a reliable and recognized solution for some time now. After carefully evaluating several tentative solutions, we have…
FactSet Research Systems Witnesses Revenue Uptick of 0.5% for Second Quarter
After a difficult first quarter of fiscal 2010, data and analytics vendor FactSet Research Systems seems to be experiencing a return to form with an overall revenue increase of 0.5% for the second quarter on previous year’s figures. Phil Hadley, chairman and CEO of the vendor, indicates that he believes the investment in its business…
IOSCO Elaborates on Data Template for Hedge Funds Risk Monitoring Purposes
Last month, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions’ (IOSCO) Technical Committee published the details of the new agreed template for the global collection of hedge fund data in order to better manage systemic risk. These new data requirements are aimed at bringing a new level of transparency to the traditionally opaque sector but will, in…