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Fincad and SAS Discuss New Partnership for Enterprise Risk Management and Valuations
Fincad has got fully into the swing of the current vendor partnership trend; not only has the derivatives analytics vendor teamed up with interdealer broker Icap for a valuations solution, it has also recently formed an alliance with SAS for a new joint enterprise risk management and independent valuation offering. David Rogers, SAS global product…
Milne Returns to the Fold at LSE as New Head of Post-Trade Services
It has been a month since A-Team Group wrote about Kevin Milne’s departure from Xtrakter and it seems that the interests he has decided to pursue outside of the Euroclear Group include becoming the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Group’s new director of Post-trade Services. Milne is in fact returning to where he began his financial services…
Bloomberg Launches Interface to CDS Clearing Houses
Bloomberg has launched the first interface in the US credit derivatives (CDS) market that connects both buy and sell side firms to the two central clearing counterparties (CCPs). The Bloomberg VCON solution, a widely accepted confirmation utility for cash and derivative instruments, now allows dealers and their clients to send executed trades to the two…
Weekend Talks in Basel Spur on Risk and Data Agenda for 2010
As predicted by A-Team Group last week, the weekend’s discussions in Basel between central bankers, regulators and a number of representatives from the private sector helped to kick off the risk management agenda for 2010. The group discussed the proposals enshrined in the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s (BCBS) published in December and indicated that…
Quantifi’s Douglas Talks up Version 9.3 of its Pricing and Risk Analysis Offering
Pricing and risk analytics solution vendor Quantifi is bargaining on a “regulatory tsunami” this year to spur on spending in the OTC derivatives valuations data and risk management sector, according to CEO Rohan Douglas. In order to keep pace with the changes, the vendor has upgraded its flagship pricing, hedging and risk analysis solution by…
XSP Completes Testing and Connectivity to Swift Via Alliance Lite
Swift has been talking up the benefits of Alliance Lite (jokingly referred to by some as ‘Swift on a stick’) for some time and the vendor community is seemingly beginning to get on board with the internet-based connectivity solution, which is aimed at extending the network’s reach via low cost access. One such vendor is…
US Financial Services Firms Lag Behind Europe in Data Management, Says Global Research
DataFlux, a provider of data quality and data integration solutions, today announced the findings of a multi-market research study, conducted throughout 2009, involving interviews with senior IT and data professionals in large financial services companies. The study, which DataFlux commissioned, outlines current attitudes and practices towards data management and industry regulation in the finance sector….
FSB Releases Reform Agenda for 2010, Liquidity Risk and Accounting Standards Feature Heavily
Last year saw the transformation and empowerment of the Financial Services Board (FSB) to lead and monitor regulatory coordination across Europe. This year, the regulatory body has a significant list of tasks ahead of it to effectively put this function into practice, including coordinating the implementation of improvements to accounting standards and raising capital and…
Joint Forum Paper Calls for New Entity Data Standards and Repositories for Derivatives Data
Following on from the publication of its risk related papers at the end of last year, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in cooperation with the Joint Forum has produced a new all-encompassing review of international financial market supervision. The review includes recommendations to introduce new data standards across regulatory jurisdictions with the aim…
Swift’s Church Explains How Reference Data Could Fit into 2015 Strategy
At the end of last year, Swift threw out a few tantalising titbits about its potential future role in the securities reference data space, including the opportunity for Bank Identifier Codes (BICs) in entity identification and its position on the European Central Bank’s proposed utility. However, Swift is in the midst of its 2015 strategy…