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Paladyne Integrates Reuters DataScope Onsite into Hosted Hedge Fund Suite to Meet Demand for ABS Data
Reuters and Paladyne Systems, provider of onsite and hosted hedge fund solutions, have completed the integration of Reuters DataScope Onsite with the Paladyne suite of products. The aim is to meet increased demand within the alternative investment industry for comprehensive data on asset-backed securities. Reuters DataScope Onsite carries more detailed data on these instruments and…
NYSE Euronext Acquires IVRS, Launches Prime Source To Capitalise on Market’s Transparency Focus
LIFFE (Holdings), a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext, has acquired Independent Valuation and Risk Services (IVRS) for some £700,000, plus a deferred consideration element. Hard on the heels of this acquisition, NYSE Euronext has also launched Prime Source, a new independent valuation service. IVRS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lombard Risk Management, provider of software and…
Reuters Aims to Price 100% of Customers’ Derivatives Holdings
Reuters’ recently announced service for delivering bespoke valuations for derivatives and complex securities (ReferenceDataReview.com, January 28 2008) formalises an activity the vendor has been testing for a couple of years, and reflects a recognition that firms increasingly want to offload the valuations burden on to a third party. Reuters has been providing bespoke evaluations to…
Credit Crunch Pushes Industry Mood in Favour of Third Party Valuations, OTC Val’s Blance Believes
The credit crunch may have put pressure on spending decisions by financial institutions, but the need for external sources of evaluated prices, particularly for asset backed securities, has been “starkly portrayed”, and the “mood is definitely swinging in favour” of making greater use of third party sources, believes Ian Blance, who recently joined derivatives specialist…
EDI Adds Structured Products to Corporate Actions Database
Exchange Data International (EDI), a specialist in the aggregation of reference and corporate actions data, has integrated structured products into its corporate actions database and Security Reference File services. Thus far EDI has integrated the following instruments into its database: Close Ended Funds, Investment/Income Trusts or Listed Investment Companies, Exchange Traded Funds, Principal Protected Notes,…
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Goes Live on ValueLink OTC Service
UK-based ValueLink has extended its provision of data services to BNY Mellon Asset Servicing to include OTC counterparty price collection and data reporting. The service for BNY Mellon, which ValueLink has been providing since the first week of December 2007, following extensive testing, is similar to that which the vendor has been providing to BNP…
Markit to Launch Multi-Dealer Valuations Platform
UK market data vendor Markit Group is working with six Wall Street banks to launch a global, multi-bank, cross-asset client valuations platform. The Markit Valuations Manager platform will provide electronic delivery of daily OTC derivative and consensus cash valuations from Citi, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch and UBS alongside Markit’s own independent valuations….
CRIS Consortium to Provide Platform for Independent Valuation, Risk Management of Credit Derivatives
A consortium comprising Zeliade Systems, OTC-Conseil, JPLC, Dexia CL, Evry University and Microsoft France and dubbed CRIS (Credit Risk Services) plans to develop a platform for independent valuation and risk management of credit derivatives. The consortium will have its first test client in the second part of the year and there will be ongoing developments…
LakeFront Adds Ian Mathers as Associate Partner
LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV) says Ian Mathers has joined the LDV Data Management Partner Program as a LakeFront associate partner. He will be concentrating his efforts on project management and implementation and process engineering and improvement. Mathers was most recently with Royal Bank of Canada and prior to that, he led the Project Management Improvement…
FISD Releases MDDL Open Source Licence in Further Bid to Encourage Take-Up
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software and Information Industry Association has released a new MDDL 3.0 Open Source licence for the financial information industry. MDDL, or Market Data Definition Language, is an open industry standard XML dialect for securities market data. The announcement of the new licence aims to remove possible ambiguity…