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Linedata Transforms Global Hedge Platform to Deliver Integrated Portfolio and Risk Management
Linedata has transformed its Global Hedge platform to deliver a new release that provides a single log-on to integrated portfolio and risk management, and real-time access to data and reporting. Linedata initially brought together and rebranded its Beauchamp hedge fund management tools, including analytics and data from Riskdata, in Linedata Global Hedge at the end…
BT Works With Truphone to Meet Dodd-Frank Demand for Mobile Communication Recording
BT is working with global mobile operator Truphone to help US firms and those trading with US firms meet Dodd-Frank regulation that requires conversations and data interactions made using mobile devices and leading to trades in the swaps market to be recorded. BT has been operating a mobile communication recording service in the UK with…
Cloudsoft Lifts OpenGamma Analytics and Risk Management into the Cloud
Cloudsoft, a provider of multi-cloud applications management software, has moved OpenGamma into the cloud to offer an analytics and risk management service that is flexible and dynamic, and can be shared across a financial institution. The company’s initial work with OpenGamma – both Cloudsoft and OpenGamma are open source specialists – was a response to…
Finance and Insurance Firms Turn to Third-Party Service Providers for Corporate Credit Valuations
Global banks, asset managers and insurance companies are adopting innovative approaches to valuing high-yield corporate credit in response to regulatory and client demand for transparent, defensible and timely evaluated pricing. Instruments under particular scrutiny include high-yield bonds, leveraged loans and collateralised loan obligations, all of which can be hard to price and all of which…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action
“Happy is the man … who before he dies, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean Sea” – Nikos Kazantzakis They say a change is as good as a rest, but a rest sure feels good. And so it is I’m back in the Old Smoke, getting to grips with the task at hand:…
Fidessa Embeds FIX in Post-Trade Workflow Easing Cost and Operational Risk
Fidessa has teamed up with FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) to offer a post-trade confirmation hub that allows buy- and sell-side firms to confirm trades via FIX. The company says the extension of order workflow directly into the middle office reduces operational risk through greater certainty in trading, less chance of errors and faster confirmation of…
LSE Details Go-Live of Pre-LEI as Regulatory Oversight Committee Reviews Global LEI System
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is planning to go live with the issue of pre-legal entity identifiers (pre-LEIs) called Interim Entity Identifiers (IEIs) on July 31, following its confirmation June 6 as a pre-Local Operating Unit (pre-LOU) under the sponsorship of the UK Financial Conduct Authority. The exchange detailed its plans this week during a…
Redefining VaR and Multi-Dimensional Analytics
By Georges Bory, managing director and co-founder, Quartet FS New regulations, such as Basel III, are changing the banking landscape and putting additional pressures on banks. These include more stringent requirements for risk modelling and ratios so they are better equipped to respond to changing market conditions. This puts measures of market risk, particularly Value…
Markit Combines Products to Deliver Integrated Resource Management
Markit has brought together three existing products to deliver Integrated Resource Management, a front-office analytics application designed to help financial institutions calculate the costs of funding and capital resources required for OTC derivatives trades. The solution adds to the company’s Markit Analytics platform, which is based on the Quic risk analytics software acquired by the…
NYSE Euronext Subsidiary Takes Over Administration of Libor
NYSE Euronext subsidiary NYSE Euronext Rate Administration has been selected ahead of the London Stock Exchange as the new administrator of Libor. The transfer of administration of the benchmark from BBA Libor, a subsidiary of the British Bankers’ Association (BBA), follows an outbreak of attempts to manipulate Libor for financial gain last year and is…