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Rutgers University to Host Statistics for Risk Conference This Week

Rutgers University’s Master of Financial Statistics and Risk Management (FSRM) programme will host the Rutgers Statistics for Financial Risk Management Conference this coming Thursday, November 7. The event reflects the FSRM programme’s emphasis on statistical and data analytics tools for measuring, monitoring, managing and mitigating uncertainty, risk and volatility. “We are keen to establish a…

A-Team Hot Topic Webinar: Data Management – A Finance, Risk & Regulatory View

Business knowledge, data centralisation and data consistency are at the heart of successful data management for finance, risk and regulation, particularly as it applies to the complexity of financial institutions operating across multiple regulatory environments. The challenges to bringing these elements together are significant, but they can be tackled and results can include not only…

Peel Hunt Signs Up for Wolters Kluwer FS’s New Summix Risk Platform

UK brokerage Peel Hunt has deployed Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ recently released Summix risk, compliance and finance platform. The system integrates technologies from acquired software providers FRS Global and FinArch, providing an upgrade path for users of these systems as well as a platform for new clients like Peel Hunt. Peel Hunt selected Summix for…

Citicom Solutions Fulfils Dodd-Frank Trade Recording and Reconstruction Requirements

Citicom Solutions is pushing its Assure voice and text data capture and analysis solution beyond the UK and into the US market with a view to helping financial firms meet Dodd-Frank regulation requiring swap trading communications to be recorded and trades to be reconstructed. The real-time solution is also designed to provide a proactive view…

An Architecture For Intelligent Trading – Leveraging Big Data in Motion for Increased Profits

Trading firms are moving on from an obsessive focus on latency reduction to a ‘new normal’ of applying intelligence to high performance trading, to ensure that they are executing the best – most profitable and least risky – trades, and not simply the fastest ones. It’s called Intelligent Trading. The Intelligent Trading approach calls for…

Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) – There’s More to LEs Than Meets the I

Firms everywhere remain under sustained regulatory pressure to reduce systemic risk, in part through the improvement of their view of counterparty risk. At the same time, the ongoing economic climate is forcing them to reduce costs, leading them to consider alternative operating models wherever possible. The emergence of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) standard…

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…