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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…
Asset Control Adds Telekurs VDF Content to Centralised Data Management Solution
Asset Control has expanded its global data coverage by adding Telekurs Valdordata Feed (VDF) content to its centralised reference and financial data management solution. Several clients have already licensed the new capability and are in the process of implementing it, the vendor says. VDF provides reference data, corporate actions information and price data on more…
NYSE Euronext Unveils Independent Valuation Service Prime Source
NYSE Euronext (NYX) has launched Prime Source, a new independent valuation service. This solution is designed to meet professional buy side market participants’ needs for valuation of large, global portfolios of complex structured products and illiquid securities. Prime Source enables users to access prices and valuations from different sources, including markets, dealer contributions and valuation…
Lombard Risk Sells Independent Valuation and Risk Services Subsidiary to Liffe
Lombard Risk Management, provider of regulatory, risk management and valuation software for the financial sector, has sold its wholly owned subsidiary Independent Valuation and Risk Services (IVRS) to Liffe (Holdings), the subsidiary of NYSE Euronext, for a consideration of some £700,000 plus a deferred consideration element to be calculated based on actual revenues that are…
B.I.S.S. Creates New Corporate Actions Systems Awards
B.I.S.S. Research, which provides benchmarking of services and systems in the financial services sector, has launched four new awards for the best corporate actions systems for broker/dealers, asset managers, custodians and overall sector winner. The awards will run in parallel to the existing B.I.S.S. Accreditation process for corporate actions systems. Gary Wright, CEO, B.I.S.S. Research,…
Reuters Aims to Price 100 Per Cent of Customers’ Derivatives Holdings
Reuters’ recently announced service for delivering bespoke valuations for derivatives and complex securities 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 some clients for two…
Exchange Data International Adds Structured Products to Worldwide Corporate Action Service
Exchange Data International (EDI), specialist in the aggregation of reference and corporate actions data, has integrated structured products into its Worldwide Corporate Actions database. This is the latest addition made by EDI to its services since electing to go head to head with London Stock Exchange by sourcing its own corporate actions data. Jonathan Bloch,…
LakeFront Data Ventures 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 as a senior IT/data partner in Credit Risk, Ops Risk…