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CrossBorder Capital Selects SunGard’s FastVal for UCITS Compliance
CrossBorder Capital, a London-based independent investment advisory firm, has implemented SunGard’s FastVal, an independent valuation service for vanilla and complex over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. CrossBorder Capital expanded into alternative investments in 1999 and the FastVal solution, a cost-effective service provided on an ASP basis, is helping the firm comply with UCITS directives covering the independent valuation…
The Connected World of Connectivity
What is connectivity? How to define connectivity in the high-performance trading infrastructure segment depends on where you sit in what’s increasingly viewed as the financial ecosystem. At the FISD’s recent Low-Latency Roundtable event in London, I asked a group of esteemed supplier panellists how financial markets users should decide on which application type is the…
JWG’s Di Giammarino Highlights the Potential Cost of the OFR for Individual Systemically Important Firms
The Office of Financial Research represents a “game of chicken” between the regulatory community and the industry, said PJ Di Giammarino, CEO of think tank JWG, at this week’s event on the regulatory data radar in 2011. “If you don’t provide feedback and get your act together by 15 July deadline, it could get pretty…
FPGAs, Established for Market Data, Now Being Leveraged for Transactions, Pre-Trade Risk
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) – providing hardware-based acceleration for processing typically performed in software – are being increasingly adopted for financial markets applications, with signs that their use is moving beyond boosting market data delivery, to address transactional performance as well. Fixnetix and Wall Street FPGA are providing two such examples, as hardware acceleration…
Bloomberg and Information Mosaic Partner on Corporate Actions
Bloomberg Data Solutions and Information Mosaic executives today announced a strategic partnership to provide a new service that will streamline corporate actions processing and reduce operational risks and costs. For the first time, financial institutions will be able to use the same Bloomberg corporate actions data for investment decisions in the front office, as well…
Broadridge Introduces the First Mobile ProxyVote Platform
Proxy voting moves to the next generation of advanced technology with today’s announcement by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) that its ProxyVote.com platform will be available on mobile data devices such as smart phones and tablets in early 2011. The announcement and demonstration was made at Broadridge’s annual Investor Communications Conference, held today in New…
Sharefunds Appoints ValueLink for Price Validation and Corporate Actions
ValueLink Information Services, the supplier of validated financial data solutions, has announced a major new client win. Following a comprehensive period of analysis, Sharefunds Limited, (part of the Share plc group) selected ValueLink’s Price Validation and Corporate Actions service for their mid-day valuations. ValueLink provides Sharefunds with global pricing data across all instrument types. They…
Xtrakter’s New Reference Data Capabilities Attract First Client
Xtrakter, a provider of capital markets data, trade matching and regulatory reporting, welcomes TFG Fund Services as the first client to access Xtrakter’s recently launched reference data product, known as XREF. Xtrakter, part of the Euroclear group since 2009, now offers a rich and detailed source of static data on over 300,000 different fixed income…
Paul Capital Selects SunGard’s Investran Data Exchange for Investor Reporting
Paul Capital, a global private equity firm, has selected SunGard’s Investran Data Exchange solution to manage the firm’s investor reporting processes. Investran Data Exchange is a web-based, multi-directional portal that provides document management, reporting and workflow solutions to assist alternative investment firms in their fundraising, investor relations, portfolio monitoring and M&A processes. Investran Data Exchange…
Avox and GoldTier Partner on Enhanced ‘Know Your Customer’ System
Avox, a supplier of legal entity data on financial entities globally, announced today that it has partnered with GoldTier, a compliance software provider, to create an enhanced system to help the financial industry comply with increasingly strict regulatory “Know Your Customer” (KYC) requirements. GoldTier is a leading provider to financial firms of software for onboarding…