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Kinetic Partners Recruits Szylar from RBS, Focuses on Modular Approach to Enterprise Risk Management
Kinetic Partners has added a new face to its team, ex-RBS Portfolio Risk Services MD Christian Szylar, to lead the vendor’s efforts in the risk modelling and valuations space. The vendor has been stepping up its approach to the market by touting its modular approach to risk management as a more practical way to meet…
Firms Being Forced to Invest in Counterparty Risk Systems Due to Business Concerns, Says Algorithmics
Rather than pressures related to regulation, the business concerns of the front office are driving a spate of investment into revamping firms’ counterparty risk systems, according to a recent survey conducted by risk solution vendor Algorithmics. The investments are focused largely on credit value adjustment (CVA), which allows for more dynamic pricing of counterparty credit…
CetrelSecurities Announces Today its First Customer in Asia
CetrelSecurities, a specialist in providing ASP services to financial institutions with more than 20 active clients using the service announced today that it has acquired its first customer in Singapore. Being a regulated company controlled by the Luxembourg Financial Markets Authority, CetrelSecurities, a subsidiary of the Luxembourg based Cetrel, focuses on the provision of outsourced…
UK FSA’s Huertas Talks up Practical Implications of Living Wills Legislation, Including Counterparty Data Requirements
Judging by the number of references that have been made to living wills legislation during reference data related events and conferences recently, the market is already well aware of the data challenge awaiting it. However, for those that may have been asleep for the last few months, Thomas Huertas, director of the banking sector for…
Pricing Partners Releases the Multi Curve Method to Account for Market Dislocation in Interest Rates
Pricing Partners announced that the Price-it Library now supports the Multi Curves Method on yield curves to account for market dislocation in interest rates. This announcement comes at a time when the spreads between EONIA, EURIBOR 1M, 3M, 6M and 12M have become major concerns, diverging from a few basic points to about a hundred…
Innovation Beats Regulation
By Penny Davenport, managing director, and Lansing Gatrell, director, Markit Document Exchange, Markit Group 2010 has carried on where 2009 left off with the spectre of regulation hanging over the financial markets. At the same time, government continues to get bigger, in education and healthcare as well as financial markets, in both the United States…
Fiserv Loses Harries to DST Global Solutions, Mulkeen Also Out the Door, But What of its eVent Business?
Following a rather disappointing end of year quarter for its financial segment and a dearth of wins for its corporate actions solution eVent over the last 12 months, it seems Fiserv has suffered yet another blow this month with the departure of two of its key staff members: former vice president of its Investment Services…
Thomson Reuters, Interactive Data 2009 Results Give Cause for Optimism in 2010
The market and reference data industry’s two largest publicly listed players – Interactive Data and Thomson Reuters – posted 2009 results last week whose resilience gave some cause for optimism. While neither set the world on fire, neither was expected to, given the ongoing weakness in the overall market, whose ‘recovery’ continues to be muted…
SuperDerivatives Chooses Fitch Solutions for CDS Pricing
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, is pleased to announce that SuperDerivatives (SD), the derivatives pricing benchmark and leading multi-asset front office system, has chosen Fitch’s CDS Pricing Service to further strengthen its existing credit derivatives valuation solutions. “As credit markets have evolved, CDS have become an integral part of the investment and…
SIFMA Carries Federal Agency Bond Prices for Free on investinginbonds.com
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association announced that it now carries price data for approximately 25,000 federal agency bonds on its investinginbonds.com website. The new data is available via a feed from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) following an expansion of its Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE) to include debt issued by…