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Liverpool Victoria Asset Management (LVAM) Selects Cadis Software
Liverpool Victoria Asset Management (LVAM) has signed a deal to implement Cadis Software’s EDM Suite. Due to go live in less than three months, Cadis will serve as the backbone of LVAM’s new technology infrastructure and play an instrumental role in the company’s growth strategy, according to the vendor. This client win is the latest…
F&C Becomes Latest To Join In Live Implementation of Cadis EDM Suite
Cadis Software’s flurry of client announcements continued this month with the news that F&C Investments had completed its implementation of the Cadis EDM Suite in support of its Charles River Development trading platform. The F&C news follows hot on the heels of last month’s announcement that Principal Global Investors had installed Cadis EDM to create…
Markit Announces Changes to Equities Team
The Markit Equities team is now led by Philippe Rivet, director and head of equity products in charge of sales, business development and client services and Paul Hodge, director and head of equity production, who takes responsibility for operations including dividend research, index management and reference data. John Price, managing director and founder of Markit…
SuperDerivatives Adds Liquidation ‘Exit’ Pricing Revaluation Services
Following developments over the past year, SuperDerivatives has released its new liquidation ‘Exit’ pricing to address the financial risk in OTC options in current market conditions. The firm made the move following growing client demand identified in discussions with customers, who are seeking more realistic pricing in light of current market conditions. Starting with initial…
Fitch Launches Pricing Service for Asset-Backed Credit Default Swaps
Fitch Solutions last month launched a new pricing service for asset-backed credit default swaps (ABCDSs). The new services is aimed at meeting what Fitch sees as growing demand for independent pricing that covers the ABS product spectrum. As such, the company is pitching the new service as complementary to its existing single-name credit-default swap and…
NYSE Euronext’s Liffe to Expand Use of Markit Dividend Forecasts in Pricing, Clearing Services
NYSE Euronext’s Liffe derivatives exchange is to broaden the range of consensus dividend forecasts from Markit it uses in its indicative options pricing model and in Bclear, its trade confirmation, administration and clearing service for wholesale equity derivatives. Liffe will expand the population of Markit dividend forecasts to cover predicted dividend amounts and due dates…
LaCrosse Global Fund Services Selects CMA DataVision for Independent Valuation Service
CMA, the credit information specialist recently acquired by CME Group, has signed LaCrosse Global Fund Services as a client for its consensus-based price verification data, DataVision, as a key component of LaCrosse’s valuation service for global clients. With 10 global offices in major and emerging markets, LaCrosse provides operations, middle-office and fund administration services to…
Invesco PowerShares Utilises Interactive Data
Invesco PowerShares is using Interactive Data’s Fair Value Information Service and Basket Calculation Service as inputs to the valuation processes for its exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The Basket Calculation Service provides the IOPVs for Invesco PowerShares’ new municipal bond ETFs. It uses Interactive Data’s real-time fixed-income valuations, real-time equity pricing and interest rate data to calculate…
Fitch Launches Pricing Service for Asset-Backed Credit Default Swaps to Meet Growing Demand
Fitch Solutions last month launched a new pricing service for asset-backed credit default swaps (ABCDSs). The new services is aimed at meeting what Fitch sees as growing demand for independent pricing that covers the ABS product spectrum. As such, the company is pitching the new service as complementary to its existing single-name credit-default swap and…
Disparate Markets and Complex Trading Call for Smarter Exceptions Management – Contributed by Coexis
Disparate markets and complex trading call for smarter exceptions management, argues Donal O’Brien, business development director of Coexis. If Societe Generale’s reference data systems had been a bit wiser to the activities of its users, could the actions of Jerome Kerviel and the French bank’s subsequent £3.7bn loss have been avoided? The need for increasingly…