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Formicary Adds Focus on Back Office Requirements to Pricing Verification Solution
Technology integration solution vendor Formicary has released the latest version of its price verification solution, RiskSeer, with a view to improving its offering for the back office as well as those users in the front office. The vendor has traditionally pitched its solution at consumers of market data focused on pricing in the front office…
Interactive Data Extends Its Interest Rate Swap Valuation Service
Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data business has broadened the capabilities for its interest rate swap valuation service. This service assists clients by providing information they can use to help efficiently value their portfolios containing these OTC derivatives. The service now covers Canadian dollars and New Zealand dollars. It has also been expanded to…
Fiserv’s Third Quarter Results Down on Last Year, Vendor Focusing on Asset Management Community for Corporate Actions Solution
Fiserv has just released its figures for its third quarter results and it seems revenues are significantly down on last year: total revenue for the period was US$992 million compared with US$1.04 billion in 2008. However, although it has also been a quiet year for the vendor on the corporate actions solution side of the…
Fitch Solutions Partners with Pricing Partners on CDS Data Distribution
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group focusing on the development of fixed income products and services, and Pricing Partners, an independent valuation, today announced a strategic partnership allowing users of Pricing Partners’ Price-it Solution with Fitch Solutions market data license to access seamlessly Fitch Solutions’ market data on OTC credit derivatives. The partnership…
FTSE Group Extends Implementation of XSP v5 Corporate Actions Platform to Hong Kong
Following its rollout in both London and New York last year, FTSE Group has gone live with the XSP v5 Corporate Actions platform in a new location: Hong Kong. The corporate actions processing platform now covers the indices provider’s Asian operations and Neil Sheppard, managing director and chief operating officer of EMEA for XSP, reckons…
Aim Software’s Sommeregger Talks up CetrelSecurities Partnership
Following the signing of a partnership with Luxembourg-based, application service provider (ASP) specialist CetrelSecurities earlier this year, data management solution vendor Aim Software has acquired its first joint customer in the Luxembourg market. Josef Sommeregger, vice president business development and sales at Aim Software, explains that the joint offering is aimed at netting the vendor…
Enterprise Data Management, 2009 Edition
This year has truly been a year of change for the data management community. Regulators and industry participants alike have been keenly focused on the importance of data with regards to compliance and risk management considerations. The UK Financial Services Authority’s fining of Barclays for transaction reporting failures as a result of inconsistent underlying reference…
Schroders Goes Live with SimCorp Dimension in Asia Pacific
Schroder Investment Management has completed the implementation of SimCorp Dimension for valuation and settlement functions across four countries within its Asia Pacific operation. The system, which has been live since 6 July 2009, covers over 800 portfolios in Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Japan and processes more than 20,000 transactions a month. SimCorp Dimension replaces…
Derivix Names Industry Veteran Pierce President
Derivix, a financial software company providing options pricing, portfolio risk visualisation and analytics solutions, today announced that Carrick Pierce has joined the company as its new president. In this newly created position, Pierce will oversee business development, product strategy and global sales to support Derivix as it continues to grow in the dynamic US options…
Asset Control Officially Launches AC Invest, with Added Fanfare from Olympic Champ Gunnell
EDM specialist vendor Asset Control officially launched its new compliance focused solution, AC Invest, this week with a little help from former British Olympic champion Sally Gunnell. Reference Data Review first covered the news of the launch at Sibos, but the vendor decided to dedicate an evening of networking, cocktails and Olympic tales to elaborate…