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Reval’s Okochi Appointed to CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee
Jiro Okochi, chief executive officer and co-founder of Reval, a global derivative risk management and hedge accounting solutions provider to over 375 publicly traded companies, was voted a member of the Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC) by the five members of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Okochi will participate in the next meeting of…
SEC Launches New XBRL Website to Speed Compliance with New Data Requirements
There can be no doubt that XBRL is big news in the US with regards to financial reporting and investor and issuer communications. The decision to mandate the use of XBRL tagging for public company statements by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this year raised its profile and the regulator has this month added…
DST Global Solutions Poaches Hogan from HCL, McKenna from Temenos and Lord from Thomson Reuters
Adding to its catalogue of new hires this year so far, investment management solution vendor DST Global Solutions has poached three new executive team members from vendor rivals to add to its Investment Management Solutions business. The vendor has hired ex-HCL Technologies executive Philip Hogan, ex-Temenos marketing director Peter McKenna and ex-Thomson Reuters data executive…
RiskVal Opens Taiwan Office For Follow the Sun Support, Development
RiskVal Financial Solutions, a provider of fixed income and structured credit trading and risk management platforms, has opened a permanent office in Asia. The new office in Taipei, Taiwan will enhance 24 hour support operations for RiskVal products, as well as adding additional software development resources. “RiskVal is pleased to provide follow the sun support…
Fitch Solutions Launches CDS Pricing Asia Close Service
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, has today extended its CDS Pricing Service to now include consensus pricing data which captures Asian market closing prices. This will provide enhanced transparency on the credit default swap (CDS) pricing of entities traded in Asian markets and further improve both users’ risk management processes and their…
Princeton Financial Systems Launches New Compliance Focused Data Management Module
In line with the current trend towards new vendor launches around targeted data management solutions related to compliance and regulatory reporting, Princeton Financial Systems (PFS) has added a new compliance data checking module to its MIG21 solution. The new module, MIG21 Data Manager, is aimed at reducing data related errors before the compliance checking process,…
Interactive Data Now Delivers Intraday Fixed Income Valuations
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that it now delivers intraday fixed income valuations to help clients around the world more closely monitor portfolio value changes and provide European and Asian domiciled funds with new inputs to their fair value procedures. Employing a variety of advanced…
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…