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OTCX, a leading multi-dealer bilateral RFQ platform for off-venue interest rate derivatives, has integrated with thinkFolio, IHS Markit’s investment management platform.
thinkFolio offers its clients advanced modelling and trading management tools for all asset classes, including fixed income and derivatives instruments. However, many of these derivatives are still traded via voice, chat or email. OTCX, by linking clients directly to their dealers, aims to bring trading workflow efficiencies and reduce operational risk due to manual input. thinkFolio clients are now able to ask for prices and negotiate interest rate swaps across G10 and EM currencies on outrights, curves, flys or bespoke
SIX has launched a new technology interface designed to eliminate the challenges associated with collateral management. Called Collateral Cockpit, the interface aims to join up fragmented front and back office information systems to give repo professionals the ability to view and manage collateral in real-time, on one platform.
Initially, the technology will serve the Swiss repo market through an initiative driven by the Swiss National Bank.
Currently, collateral is managed across the front and back offices through systems developed by a range of technology services providers. The complexity, and lack of visibility, brought on by this diversity of systems
SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management solutions provider, has launched SmartStream Air, a new approach for reconciliations that allows business users to reconcile complex sets of data in seconds.
The solution is immediately accessible and uses transformative artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to auto-configure reconciliations of any data structure – unlike other solutions on the market today, which only understand certain domains, coupled with long implementation times.
SmartStream Air has been proven in a number of tier one banks, and has been tested with a number of customers, who are now implementing the solution.
Haytham Kaddoura, CEO, SmartStream,
Broadridge Financial Solutions’ Global Asset Servicing Solution is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). A global tier-1 investment bank is in live operation with the solution and another global is in the process of onboarding.
Replacing multiple incumbent systems with a single solution can help these companies to achieve greater levels of efficiency through standardised processes and data globally, while reducing operational risks. They can also respond more effectively to regulatory reporting requirements and client service needs, by adding increased oversight and business control.
Broadridge’s full-end-to-end solution is designed to address key industry, business and operational challenges in
BNY Mellon has expanded the firm’s ESG Analytics offering by integrating fixed income scoring for corporate bonds.
BNY Mellon clients now have the ability to view environmental, social and governance (ESG) and United Nations Global Compact (GC) scores on equities and fixed income at the portfolio level versus relevant benchmarks over time. Clients also have the ability to view the ESG and GC scores at the company-level.
An extension of BNY Mellon’s Global Risk Solutions Exposure and Structural analysis product, ESG Analytics is an intuitive, multi-dimensional and comprehensive service that helps clients manage and monitor ESG and other important
Murex’s MX.3 platform can now be connected with the Bloomberg Market Data Feed (B-PIPE) hosted on AWS in a matter of minutes. This latest development will provide Murex customers, who also use B-PIPE, with easy and quick access to Bloomberg’s reliable market data to configure, test and run MX.3.
For hundreds of financial institutions, the MX.3 platform sits at the heart of a large IT ecosystem where high-quality market data is key. As data providers embrace the cloud and offer managed services, an essential part of the Murex cloud journey is expanding out-of-the-box connectivity so that clients can fully benefit
eVestment, a specialist in institutional investment data and analytics, has appointed Jean-Philippe (JP) Quittot as Managing Director – Head of EMEA based out of the firm’s London office.
Quittot has been with eVestment for over 10 years, initially joining as a sales representative in 2009 and serving most recently as head of sales in the EMEA region.
In his new role as Managing Director – Head of EMEA Quittot will be responsible for overseeing strategic direction and growth in the region, reporting to Jerrod Stoller and Gene Luciani, eVestment’s Co-CEOs based in Atlanta, Georgia.
“JP has extensive knowledge
CMC Markets has partnered with FX Blue (www.fxblue.com) to provide an extensive range of free tools for clients using the MT4 trading platform. A total of 27 additional applications will be available to any CMC Markets client actively trading across the online platform.
Available add-ons include a correlation matrix and sentiment trader, whilst indicators on offer range from simple order histories and pivot points through to Renko blocks and Keltner channels.
Ryan O’Doherty, Head of Product Development at CMC Markets, says: “Our proprietary and flexible Next Generation platform remains incredibly popular with the vast majority of traders, but we
The Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) is to launch the world’s first offshore Nasdaq-100 index futures contract on 30 September 2019.
Denominated in Taiwan dollars, this new futures contract is based on the Nasdaq-100 index, which is sub-licensed by CME Group for listing on TAIFEX. One of the world’s most frequently-cited technology indexes, the Nasdaq 100® tracks the 100 largest non-financial companies listed on Nasdaq, complementing closely with the strong technology-focus of TAIFEX’s most popular trading products, including TAIEX Futures and TAIEX Options.
The launch of the new contract is TAIFEX’s second collaboration with CME Group, following the launch of
Charles River Development is collaborating with MSCI to integrate MSCI Analytics capabilities with Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS).
Charles River clients will be able to use MSCI’s portfolio and risk analytics, enabling access to MSCI’s industry-leading capabilities and content in multiple asset class factor modelling, stress-testing, statistical analysis (VaR), and optimisation. In addition, MSCI Analytics clients can now use Charles River IMS as their single source for portfolio and data modelling needs.
MSCI Analytics provide investment and risk professionals with a common language for identifying and communicating the sources of market, credit, liquidity and counterparty risk
