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Interactive Data Partners with Korea’s Koscom for Pricing and Reference Data
Interactive Data’s Pricing and Reference Data business has signed an agreement with Koscom, under which the Korean IT solution provider will provide the data vendor’s international pricing and reference data to the Korean investment community. The data covered by the agreement includes international end of day pricing and corporate actions data. Koscom was established in…
3i Infotech Adds Data Provision and Modelling Features to Reporting to Clients Solution
3i Infotech has released a new version of its client reporting solution that includes new data provision and modelling features, which the vendor claims is aimed at reducing the burden on data providers and adding value to reporting. Reporting to Clients 2.0 is a response to the requirement for greater transparency in the market, says…
Standard Chartered Picks GoldenSource for Corporate Actions Golden Copy Creation
Standard Chartered Bank has chosen GoldenSource Securities & Products to automate the creation of its golden copy corporate actions notifications. The Asian bank began looking for a corporate actions validation solution in early 2008 and began talking to the vendor about the implementation before year end, explains Gert Raeves, senior vice president of strategic business…
SuperDerivatives Upgrades VolSurface Solution for Mark to Market Rules
Derivatives data specialist SuperDerivatives has upgraded and renamed its derivatives revaluation and risk management offering, VolSurface, to accommodate improvements to market data and risk reference data. The service, which is now called Mark-to-Market Data, has been altered to more adequately meet the requests of its customers following recent feedback, says the vendor. Dani Weigert, Mark-to-Market…
Kuwait’s Markaz Rolls Out Fincad Analytics for Derivatives Pricing and Analytics
Middle Eastern asset management and investment banking firm Markaz has completed the rollout of Fincad Analytics for its derivatives pricing and analytics. The firm, which is based in the Kuwait Financial Centre, has implemented the solution as part of its wider plans to build options trading and technology infrastructure for the Kuwait Stock Exchange. Hussein…
A-Team Group’s Valuations Vendor Directory 2009
An indispensable guide to valuations professionals seeking providers of services in the asset valuations market. A-Team Group’s latest release in its series of directories – available for FREE download – focuses on vendors of valuations data, models and analytics. But this is not just another list of firms with their telephone numbers – you can get that…
China Life Asset Management Opts for DSTi’s HiPortfolio/3 for Accounting
China Life Asset Management Corporation (CLAMC) has completed the rollout of DST International’s (DSTi’s) HiPortfolio/3 investment accounting solution. The firm, which is one of the largest institutional investors in China, opted to implement the solution with a view to increasing its STP and allowing its managers to more effectively monitor their portfolios. Zhang Feng Min,…
Cadis Integrates London Stock Exchange’s Datalect into its EDM Suite
EDM vendor Cadis has integrated the London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) Datalect product suite into its EDM Suite, including the exchange operator’s Sedol Masterfile service. According to the vendor, the data has been integrated via a new Cadis adaptor, which it claims will enable clients to maximise the value of the data that the LSE provides…
A-Team Group’s Valuations Vendor Directory 2009
An indispensable guide to valuations professionals seeking providers of services in the asset valuations market. A-Team Group’s latest release in its series of directories – available for FREE download – focuses on vendors of valuations data, models and analytics. But this is not just another list of firms with their telephone numbers – you can get that…
Mark to Market Discussions Continue at Financial Crisis Advisory Group, US Government Plans More Talks
The Financial Crisis Advisory Group, which was formed last year by the Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) to tackle the financial crisis, has this week discussed how best to solve the issues surrounding fair value pricing. The group discussed the problems to do with mark to market accounting…