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EDM Council Publishes Lengthy Update on Semantics Repository
The EDM Council has this week published a full update on its Semantic Repository project, following the completion of its initial development work on static data. The industry group has been working to make the repository more user friendly, says Mike Atkin, managing director of the EDM Council. The industry body is asking for members…
Reval Aims to Serve as Trade Repository for OTC Derivatives
In an effort to aid its corporate clients as well as the Obama administration’s plans to bring transparency to the US$592 trillion OTC derivatives market, Reval, a global provider of derivative risk management and hedge accounting solutions, has announced its intent to serve as a trade repository for OTC derivatives used by corporate end users….
FCAG Says Mark to Market Rules Not to Blame for Procyclical Nature of Market
The Financial Crisis Advisory Group (FCAG) has released its final report indicating that mark to market accounting standards did not fuel the procyclicality of the market. The group, which is the joint effort between the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), established to tackle accounting standards in the…
The ECB’s Reference Data Utility: Evidently a Controversial Topic…
The European Central Bank’s (ECB) proposed reference data utility seems to have caught the attention of a lot of Reference Data Review readers out there. While most are in support of standardisation in the reference data space in general, many are confused and, frankly, concerned about what the ECB is planning. On reader in particular,…
Aim Software and Interactive Data Launch Sixth Edition of the Aim Global Reference Data and Risk Management Survey
Aim Software today announced the launch of its sixth international reference data and risk management survey. It is designed to provide insights into the trends, challenges and planned investments for reference data automation and risk management in 2009. The survey is sponsored by Interactive Data (Europe). As the global financial markets become accustomed to a…
Baikal Rolls Out UnaVista for Reconciliations and Confirmation Matching
Baikal, the London Stock Exchange Group’s pan-European dark pool and liquidity aggregation service, this month began using UnaVista, the group’s generic hosted matching, reconciliation and data integration service. As part of Baikal’s phased roll out, solutions were needed for end of day exchange reconciliations with central counterparties, and for automation of post-trade client confirmations. UnaVista…
Pricing Partners’ Stochastic Volatility Model to be Discussed at Scientific Conference
Pricing Partners’ latest research about the acceleration by a factor 100, calculating the price of financial options with a stochastic volatility model, has caught the attention of the scientific committee, the 33rd edition of the Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (SPA 2009) Conference, and will be presented during the week of this conference in Berlin…
TFX to Publish Markit iTraxx Japan Index Price Data on Website
Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has announced that it will publish Markit iTraxx Japan Index price data on its website from 27 July 2009. TFX has previously contributed to the development of the Japanese credit markets by publishing credit default swap (CDS) reference rates on its website. By publishing data on the Markit iTraxx Japan Index,…
Provident Risk Management Selects Fincad’s Fair Value Insight for Valuations
Provident Risk Management is using Fincad’s Fair Value Insight as the foundation for its clients’ credit risk management and market valuations for interest rate derivatives and maximum potential credit exposure. Fair Value Insight is a secure web-based independent valuation solution built upon Fincad’s industry standard analytics and Icap’s market data. The solution enables corporate treasuries,…
Interactive Data Reports 4.6% Revenue Increase for Reference Data Biz in Q2 2009
Despite the difficult economic environment, Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data has experienced revenue growth of 4.6% in the second quarter of this year compared to last year’s figures. This is in contrast to a decrease for the vendor’s overall financial results for the second quarter ended 30 June 2009, US$185.0 million compared with…