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Managed Services in the Mainstream – It’s Not Just About Cost Anymore
Are managed services coming of age as providers of front-office trading capabilities? Certainly some of the trends we are seeing suggest they are. It was not so long ago when investment banks and other sell-side trading rooms were able to push the managed services debate into the long-grass, citing control, security and competitive advantage as…
Bloomberg Adds EMIR Reporting Solution to Professional Service
Bloomberg is up and running with a trade reporting solution for European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) ahead of next week’s deadline. The company has used existing infrastructure to set up the solution and will initially report trades to European trade repositories operated by DTCC and Regis-TR. Bloomberg is offering the EMIR reporting solution as a…
Markit Adds Data and Connectivity to MarkitServ to Support EMIR Reporting
Markit is meeting European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) reporting requirements by adding additional data fields and data to its MarkitServ reporting solution and connectivity to DTCC’s UK derivatives repository. The EMIR service went live last month after MarkitServ sent several million trade records to the DTCC derivatives repository on behalf of over one hundred firms…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Eikon – A Window to Enterprise Data
At the risk of sounding contrarian, could it be that an earlier generation of Thomson Reuters management was onto something when it put a whole lot of the Thomson family’s eggs in the Eikon basket? While the initial vision may have been of a modern premium trader desktop, the latest incarnation is more of a…
Talking Intelligent Trading With Andrew Delaney: Eikon – An Icon of Modern Trading Analytics?
At the risk of sounding contrarian, could it be that an earlier generation of Thomson Reuters management was onto something when it put a whole lot of the Thomson family’s eggs in the Eikon basket? This week’s unveiling of Eikon 4 – together with a bunch of sentiment analysis capabilities – illustrates the strides Thomson…
Opinion: A Bite-Sized Approach to IBOR
Paul Westgate, product manager, Linedata Much has been written over the past couple of years on the subject of IBOR – the Investment Book of Records. These discussions tend to focus, quite rightly, on the benefits of an IBOR, inferring that a true IBOR solution exists today. Can firms move from inadequate present day systems…
S&P Capital IQ Reports on the Challenges and Opportunities of EMIR Compliance
As the deadline for derivatives trade reporting under European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) looms, S&P Capital IQ reports that many companies are not ready to comply with the regulation and may not yet have pre-Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) that are mandatory for derivatives reporting. S&P Capital IQ covers the issues of EMIR, the LEI and…
Six Financial Information Adds Pre-LEIs from Avox to its Reference Data Services
Six Financial Information is mapping pre-Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) provided by Avox to its reference data to help users of its data services meet the reporting requirements of regulations including European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), which comes into force on 12 February, Dodd-Frank and Solvency II. The company considered available sources of pre-LEIs in the…
ITRS Delivers Murex Monitoring Interface Via Excelian Tie-Up
ITRS has partnered with integrator Excelian to add Murex to the list of trading and risk applications handled by its Geneos performance monitoring system. The arrangement will give mutual clients access to real-time metrics on system performance for Murex solutions. ITRS already delivers predictive, real-time monitoring and management capabilities for over 100 third-party trading and…
MathWorks Extends Matlab Capability through Integration with Numerix
MathWorks and Numerix have integrated the Numerix Cross-Asset Integration Layer with MathWorks’ Matlab numerical computation environment to allow Matlab users to access Numerix calculations in the creation of applications for pre-trade pricing, modelling and analysis of complex financial instruments. The integration was completed last year and incorporates Numerix CrossAsset Integration Layer templates in the Matlab…