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XSP Promotes John Kehoe to Managing Director of Global Sales and Account Relationship Management
XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions solutions, announced the promotion of John Kehoe to Managing Director of Global Sales and Account Relationship Management. “John has been a key part of our success and we are delighted to promote him to Managing Director,” said, Brendan P. Farrell, Jr., Chief Executive Officer at XSP….
Technology-Driven Hedge Fund Selects XSP v5 Corporate Actions Platform
XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions solutions, announced today its newest client, a leading Hedge Fund based in New York City. This Hedge Fund has licensed the XSP v5 solution for automated global Corporate Actions processing. The new client will be implementing the XSP Data Management & Scrubbing module, XSP Web-based eTRAN…
OTC Fin’s Data Warehouse to Help Buy Side Firms and Institutional Investors Achieve a Comprehensive View of Market, Credit, Liquidity and Portfolio Risk
OTC Fin, a provider of front and middle office financial technology to investment managers, hedge funds, hedge fund of funds and institutional investors, today announced the release of PAT DW (Portfolio Analysis Tool Data Warehouse), Version 3, which merges Funds of Funds and multi-asset security level data whereby providing increased transparency of portfolio holdings via…
DST Global Solutions Selects Northfield to Strengthen its Anova Platform
DST Global Solutions, a leading provider of investment management systems and services, today announced a strategic relationship with analytical and operating efficiency tool provider Northfield to provide DST Global Solutions clients with specialised fixed income attribution capabilities. Northfield’s “Everything Everywhere” global equity and fixed income model has been integrated into DST Global Solutions’ award-winning middle…
Swift Sanctions Screening Service Falls Below Big Bank Grade
Swift’s sanctions screening service, which is due to go live in December this year, failed to win interest from large financial services organisations when first mooted and has instead been geared towards small and medium sized banks. Brigitte De Wilde, head of anti-money laundering and sanctions for Swift, explains to Reference Data Review that a study of…
Xtrakter and SIX Telekurs Agree to Expand Pricing Data
Xtrakter, a leading provider of capital market data, trade matching and regulatory reporting services, welcomes SIX Telekurs as the first data vendor to access Xtrakter’s Mark-to-Market valuation service, known as XM2M. SIX Telekurs clients now have pricing data on over 45,000 domestic and international fixed-income instruments, including illiquid instruments such as asset-backed securities. Bid and…
ISDA Responds to the Financial Stability Board Report on OTC Derivatives Markets Reforms Implementation
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has submitted its response to the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) progress report on OTC derivatives market reforms, published on April 15, 2011. The work of the FSB is vital to ensuring that regulatory reform is consistent across different regions, and ISDA believes that the progress report offers a…
Firms Face More Data Disclosure Around Level 3 Asset Valuations, Following FASB and IASB Agreement on Fair Value
Regulators may be at odds with each other this week regarding the definition of what constitutes a firm that is systemically risky, but significant progress has been made on the standards front by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in agreeing a global definition for “fair value”. The…
FlexFinance IFRS Live After a Three Month Project Implementation Period
One year ahead of the Central Bank’s schedule, Access Bank, FERNBACH Software’s first Nigerian customer, announced the successful completion of its FlexFinance IFRS implementation. In a record time of less than 3 months, the joint team of Access Bank, KPMG and FERNBACH implemented FlexFinance IFRS. By completing the project, Access Bank has enlisted Nigeria among…
Thomson Reuters Embeds Data Visualization Technology into Quant Trading Platform
Thomson Reuters today announced it has joined forces with Panopticon Software, a provider of visual data analysis solutions, to embed data visualization capabilities into the Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Velocity Analytics. These new capabilities are available both as a managed service within Elektron, the firm’s high performance real-time network and hosting environment, or deployed…