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S&P and SuperDerivatives Partner to Create Largest Valuations Portal

Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations, a global provider of independent securities evaluations and derivatives specialist SuperDerivatives have established a sales and marketing alliance to target the fixed income securities and OTC and exchange-traded derivatives market. The resulting combined offering represents the largest independent valuation portal in terms of both geographic and asset class coverage. The…

A-Team Report: Complex Instruments Demand Overhaul of Data Management by Buy Side

Following last month’s webinar on derivatives and data management, A-Team Group and EDM vendor GoldenSource have released a report on the specific challenges faced by global reference data managers in buy side firms, with a particular focus on the impact of OTC derivatives. The report involved discussions with a sample of senior individuals directly involved…

Consistency in Valuations is Vital for Dealing with Derivatives, Says Lepus and Asset Control

Accurate documentation surrounding valuations is growing in importance in the area of complex derivatives, according to a recent panel discussion held by Lepus Consulting and sponsored by Asset Control. The panel, which included representatives from a number of Wall Street banks and US mutual funds such as TIAA-CREF, agreed that knowing the ultimate parent for…

GoldenSource Promotes Version 8 of its EDM Suite as More Tailored Solution For Managing Risk

GoldenSource has released version 8 of its EDM platform, which the vendor says offers a more tailored approach for clients and advanced functionality for managing business risk, particularly in high risk areas such as corporate actions, pricing and data quality. “The new version is based on user group feedback and is set to tackle specific…

Interactive Data Makes Pricing Data Available Through ValueLink’s PriceValidation, Adds Valuations for ETNs

Interactive Data Corporation had a busy Sifma with regards to its pricing and valuations business lines, as well as signing a deal with ValueLink to make data from its Pricing and Reference Data business available through ValueLink’s PriceValidation service, the vendor also announced that it will now deliver indicative intraday valuations for exchange traded notes…

Interactive Data Introduces Earlier Delivery Time for Global Reference Data

Interactive Data Corporation now delivers start of day reference data for North American equities at 1am EST for its Pricing and Reference Data business. This is seven hours earlier than previously available and is in advance of the opening of trading in Europe. Marty Williams, vice president of reference data product development at Interactive Data…

Interactive Data Makes Pricing Data Available Through ValueLink’s PriceValidation Service

Interactive Data Corporation(IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, is making data from its Pricing and Reference Data business available through ValueLink’s PriceValidation service, the company is announcing on booth # 1405. Through PriceValidation, ValueLink acts as a service facilitator taking raw data from customers’ chosen data vendors and subjecting…

Interactive Data Delivers Indicative Valuations for Exchange Traded Notes and Values for Market Indices

Interactive Data Corporation (booth # 1405) a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, today announced that it can now deliver indicative intra-day valuations for exchange traded notes (ETNs) and values for market indices. Interactive Data’s Basket Calculation ServiceSM, which also offers intra-day indicative optimized portfolio values (IOPVs) for equity and fixed income…

GoldenSource Releases Version 8 of its EDM Suite

GoldenSource, booth # 3109 has released version 8 of its EDM platform, which the vendor says offers advanced functionality for managing business risk, particularly in high risk areas such as corporate actions, pricing and data quality. Version 8 is built around a standards-based J2EE application server framework, thus making it easier to configure, integrate and…

APG Investments US Picks Fidelity ActionsXchange for Corporate Actions Processing

The US subsidiary of Dutch asset manager APG Algemene Pensioen Groep NV, APG Investments US Inc, has signed up for US domestic fixed income corporate actions information from Fidelity ActionsXchange, via its ActionService product. APG Investments US Inc is the wholly owned subsidiary of APG Algemene Pensioen Groep NV, which provides asset management services to…