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Thomson Reuters Joins Fatca Fray with Modular Compliance Solution

Thomson Reuters has joined the growing group of vendors providing compliance solutions for the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) that came into effect on January 1. Its offer is a modular, yet holistic, solution that can flex in response to elements of the legislation that are still to be determined or may change…

Volksbank Employs MXG Team for Misys to Murex Migration

Volksbank ?sterreich is working with Murex system integrator MXG Team to migrate its trading and risk management activities from Misys Summit and Kondor+ platforms to a single Murex 3.1 MXpress platform. Phase 1 of the project was completed at the end of November 2012 and migrated a Summit front-to-back office system to the Murex platform…

Gjensidige Selects Moody’s Analytics’ RiskIntegrity Solvency II Solution

Norwegian insurance company Gjensidige is working with Moody’s Analytics’ RiskIntegrity Solvency II solution to improve risk management and support compliance with the forthcoming regulation. The company chose RiskIntegrity on the strength of its out-of-the-box regulatory capabilities and ease of use. Thomas Bichard-Breaud, leader of Gjensidige’s Solvency II reporting, explains: “Moody’s Analytics offered us the best…

MoneyMate Proposes Solution to Holdings Data Issues of Solvency II

MoneyMate’s introduction of a look-through and reporting utility, which will provide data connectivity between insurance companies, asset managers and third party administrators, is aimed to support insurers that must comply with Solvency II and asset managers that want to protect the investment strategies they are using while providing necessary holdings data to insurers and their…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Spreadsheet Wars Reprised

In an interview with the excellent Robert Elms on BBC Radio London the other day, author and autistic savant Daniel Tammet said something along the lines of: “Mathematics is more about how you came up with the answer than the answer itself.” Tammet was promoting his forthcoming new book, Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates…

MSCI Opens Office in Seoul, South Korea

MSCI, a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, including indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics and corporate governance services, announced today that it has opened a new office in Seoul, South Korea. This announcement reinforces MSCI’s commitment to the growing South Korean market with a local office, a local team and products tailored…

GoldenSource Opens Singapore Office, Hires New APAC Sales Director

GoldenSource, a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solutions, has announced that it has opened an office in Singapore, its fifth office in the APAC region. David Chew has been appointed as Sales Director and will be responsible for growing the business and developing GoldenSource’s presence in the region. “David’s 20 years of experience…

Trillium Targets Data Management Solution at Fatca Compliance

Trillium Software aims to ease the data management burden on financial institutions that must comply with the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) with data assessment and management services that will help them identify, gather and manage the data needed to meet the Act’s requirements. For many, compliance will be neither easy nor low…

Paladyne Systems Appoints William Kelly as Global Head of Sales

Paladyne Systems, a Broadridge Company and a leading provider of next generation investment management solutions, today announced that William Kelly has joined the company as Global Head of Sales. The addition of Mr. Kelly is a strategic move to leverage the size, scale, and synergies that Broadridge brings to Paladyne through its recent acquisition. “Paladyne…

DataFlux Targets Firms’ Semantics with New Data Management Platform

DataFlux’s release of version 2.2 of its DataFlux Data Management Platform introduces its so-called Business Data Network, a framework that allows data managers to set semantic terms across business areas. By adopting a common set of terms for securities, counterparties and activities, BDN can help institutions take a significant step toward a robust approach to…