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New Implementation of Massive Grid Computing Empowers Pricing Partners’ Valuation Service
Pricing Partners (www.pricingpartners.com), the independent valuation expert and a world leader in mathematical models and analytics for derivatives and structured products, announced today that its impressive pricing tool, Price-it Valuation, is now empowered with massive grid computing to significantly accelerate the pricing speed for its flagship independent valuation service, Price-it® Online, delivered as a SaaS…
RDR Poll This Month: Are Chief Data Officers the Norm?
Reference data issues may be rising up the industry agenda as a result of risk management and regulatory considerations, but how much of a priority does your firm place on the data function. There has previously been a lot of talk about the increase in the number of chief data officers (CDOs) in the market,…
The Centre for Research in Security Prices Selects XSP v5 Corporate Actions Platform
XSP, a global provider of corporate actions software, announced today that the Centre for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) at the Booth School of Business has selected the XSP v5 solution to automate its corporate actions processing. CRSP, a highly specialised provider of market data to hundreds of academic, commercial and government institutions for nearly…
NRI Partners with Numerix for Valuation Services
Numerix, a provider of cross asset analytics for the structuring, valuation and risk analysis of derivatives and structured products, today announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement with Nomura Research Institute (NRI), Japan’s largest consulting and IT consulting firm, to provide valuation services for NRI’s Japanese client base. The partnership announcement marks a…
Swift’s New UK-based Recruit Aggarwal and Leibbrandt Talk up 2015 Potential Strategies
As indicated during Sibos week earlier this year, Swift is currently sizing up its future potential in the market as part of its new 2015 strategy discussions. Arun Aggarwal, Swift’s recently appointed managing director for the UK, Ireland and the Nordics, and Gottfried Leibbrandt, head of marketing, explained the four potential strategies that are being…
Pricing Partners to Present its Latest Work on Variable Annuities (GMxB) at the Paris Finance International Meeting
Pricing Partners announced today that Pierre Gauthier will be presenting the company’s latest work on Impact of Stochastic Interest Rates and Stochastic Volatility on Variable Annuities at the 7th Finance International Meeting in Paris on December 17 and 18, 2009 at the Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci. During his presentation, Gauthier, co-head of quantitative research…
Bloomberg’s BSYM Open Symbology Seeks Gain from Rivals’ Regulatory Travails
To suggest Bloomberg’s introduction this month of its Bloomberg Open Symbology (BSYM) initiative is in no way connected to the recent regulatory activity in this space would be naive. Bloomberg clearly has one eye on the travails of rivals Standard & Poor’s and Thomson Reuters, both of which are having trouble with EU anti-competition investigators….
XBRL US On the Hunt for Partners to do Legwork Around Corporate Actions Taxonomies
Given that it’s being touted as the next big thing for the financial services community, it’s no surprise that XBRL US is looking for partners to lend a hand in covering some of the groundwork for its spate of new projects. The not for profit consortium is currently working with Swift and the Depository Trust…
European Commission Finally Releases S&P ISIN Fees Judgement, Considers Vendor to be Abusing its Dominant Position
Following 10 months of deliberation, the European Commission has finally released its preliminary findings on its inquiry into Standard & Poor’s pricing practices concerning International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs). According to its recent memo, the Commission considers the vendor to be “abusing its dominant position” as the sole appointed National Numbering Agency (NNA) for US…
Harnessing Data for Better Valuations
A-Team Group, a publishing and research company specialising in financial information technology, was commissioned by enterprise data management specialist GoldenSource to conduct research into the challenges of managing pricing and valuations data. Throughout the course of October 2009, A-Team Group researchers interviewed senior-level specialists closely aligned to market data or valuations. Several spanned multiple responsibilities…