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NumeriX, THEMA Forge Partnership for Integrated Analytics
NumeriX, provider of pricing and risk analytics for fixed income, credit, foreign exchange, hybrids, cross currency, commodities, inflation rate and equity derivatives, has entered a partnership agreement with THEMA Consulting, provider of risk management, treasury and trading services and software. THEMA’s MasterFinance 6.0 pricing engine now bundles the latest NumeriX math libraries, enabling financial institutions…
Moody’s Buys Price Discovery, End-of-Day Pricing Provider BQuotes
Moody’s Corporation has acquired BQuotes, global provider of price discovery tools and end-of-day pricing services for fixed income securities. Terms of the transaction will not be disclosed, and the financial impact to Moody’s is not expected to be material. This follows Moody’s recent acquisition of the assets of Mergent Pricing and Evaluation Service from Xinhua…
Interactive Data Ties With Financial Express for UK Funds Data
Germany-headquartered Interactive Data Corporation says its Managed Solutions group has enhanced its funds data with information supplied by UK data supplier Financial Express. The offering, which comprises data for more than 15,000 funds licensed in the UK and covers all funds classes, is available via Interactive Data Managed Solutions’ Funds Suite product. Fact sheets and…
Reuters Launches Bespoke Derivatives Pricing for Hard to Value Instruments
Reuters has launched a pricing service that delivers bespoke valuations for derivatives and complex securities – Reuters DataScope Derivatives Pricing Service. Using the service, customers can request a price for bespoke transactions, with completely transparent Reuters pricing and methodology behind each valuation. The service complements Reuters DataScope Select, which already provides prices for instruments that…
Microgen, NumeriX, IRML Team to Support Fund Managers in Derivatives Valuations
Microgen has launched a new Microgen Aptitude-based solution in partnership with NumeriX and Independent Risk Monitoring Limited (IRML), designed to support asset managers and their service providers as they tackle the challenges related to their increasing use of OTC derivatives. The solution – Microgen Independent Valuation and Risk (IVR) – is billed as an integration…
SEI’s Ventura Joins LakeFront’s Partner Programme
Edward Ventura has joined the LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV) data management partner programme as a LakeFront associate partner. He will be focusing on expanding the LDV reference data consulting business. Most recently Ventura was senior product manager of asset data services for SEI, where he led the strategy and sourcing for redistribution and consumption of…
Trepp, Markit Partner for Transparency on Synthetic CMBSs
Trepp, provider of CMBS and commercial mortgage information, analytics and technology, and Markit, supplier of independent data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing, have forged a partnership they say will bring greater transparency and accuracy to the valuation of synthetic Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBSs). Under the agreement, Markit’s valuation input template will be integrated…
Existing Regulation Could Spur On Corporate Actions STP, Aite Predicts
The lack of an explicit regulatory imperative to address the efficiency of corporate actions processing is often cited as a reason for the industry’s lack of progress towards this goal. While it’s true that efforts like Giovannini do include corporate actions, there is no specific directive or legislation that demands firms meet a standard for…
Reuters Adds Hourly Corporate Actions Updates to Meet Algo Trading-Driven Need for Timely Event Data
Reuters has added an enhancement to Reuters DataScope Select which will see its corporate actions data updated hourly, rather than once a day. Users will be able to monitor portfolios more actively by choosing how often they receive updates and paying according to the quantity of data they use, Reuters says. The release of the…
Interactive Data’s Ian Blance Takes OTC Derivatives Valuations Experience to OTC Val Strategic Sales Role
Vancouver-based provider of independent valuations for derivatives and complex products OTC Valuations Limited (OTC Val) has marked a concerted push into the European marketplace and an ambition to grow worldwide with the hire of Ian Blance, recently ex of Interactive Data (Reference Data Review @ FIMA, November 5 2007), as vice president of strategic sales….