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Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global security corporate actions, pricing and reference data, has expanded its offering with the addition of Over the Counter (OTC) Data.
EDI now offers a comprehensive suite of market data and security prices on OTC Fixed Income and Derivative instruments. These data sets include interest rate yield curves, interest rate and FX option volatility surfaces, as well as credit default swap spreads.
In addition to this, EDI is also offering prices on several million global securities, including corporate and municipal bonds, securitised products and bank loans, which can be used for portfolio
Duco has launched Duco Cube Data Platform, an extension of the Duco Cube cloud-based normalisation and reconciliation system, which enables users to access up to ten years’ worth of results and exception data via a Hadoop-based big data infrastructure.
Clients can easily connect in-house or third-party tools, such as Tableau, Power BI and QlikView, for monitoring, trend analysis, reporting and analytics. Three customers are already live on the platform.
Financial institutions of all sizes are spending significant time and effort to try to break down data silos and extract value from their data. Operational processes such as reconciliation provide
Professor André Spicer, Cass Business School, comments on Cambridge Analytica and questions what the costs will be to big tech firms?
Recent revelations about Cambridge Analytica will put pressure on not just Facebook, but many large tech companies. They will be forced to expand their compliance, privacy and social responsibility functions. Big tech firms are going from being darlings to being devils in the public imagination.
Big tech firms have a Californian mindset: they assume that people will generally do the right thing but this is being challenged. Now, they’re having to stop focusing on the sunny side of human
UnaVista, part of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), has extended its alliance with information provider IHS Markit to help firms prepare and comply with the upcoming SFTR transaction reporting.
In line with LSEG’s Open Access philosophy, UnaVista launched its Partner Programme to provide clients with greater transparency and choice when dealing with other markets participants. The programme has welcomed a range of financial services providers including Charles River, Eze Software and Finastra, as well as firms providing specialised financial regulatory reporting services.
UnaVista is delighted to extend its relationship with IHS Markit to provide firms with an end-to-end
Zichain, a Switzerland-based digital asset management company, has secured an USD1.2 million investment from a syndicate of UHNW Hong-Kong based investors, supporting further development of its unique cryptocurrency products.
The deal was confirmed while the Company was participating at the Goldman Sachs 2018 Disruptive Technology Symposium, held in London on 20-21 March.
As a pioneer of the cryptocurrency index industry, Zichain has enjoyed exponential growth with the Company now taking a leading role in the creation of digital asset management industry.
Zichain is focused on the development of three key products: Blockchain Asset Management Platform (BAMP), a unique
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, has registered the first trade on its new OTC Options registration service.
The trade was a Put on the TTF Summer 2018 contract at a strike price of 17 Euros/MWh, with an Options premium of 0,290 Euros. It was brokered by Marex Spectron and amounted to a total of 527,040 MWh.
PEGAS Options were launched on 13 March 2018 and are available for STP trade registration through Trayport Clearing Link and EFETnet ExRP. PEGAS Options are cleared by European Commodity Clearing (ECC), the central clearing house of EEX Group in Europe.
StatPro Group, a provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, has added “Personal Configurable Dashboards” to StatPro Revolution in its March release.
This powerful new feature, driven by client demand allows clients to create personalised analysis screens to show only and exactly what each user wants to see.
Available to all clients, Personal Dashboards gives users total flexibility and control with multiple screen layouts and visual analysis components. Clients can create custom menus and deploy new dashboards instantly to defined user roles allowing for access control to the individual user level.
Axioma has appointed Jason Connelly (pictured), as Managing Director, Business Strategy and Execution. He was previously Global Head of Analytics Managed Services at MSCI, Inc.
“Jason will focus on strategic efforts to identify, target and develop market opportunities for Axioma,” says Sebastian Ceria, Chief Executive Officer of Axioma. “Gaining a better understanding of the markets and segments we serve – and precisely matching the needs of those markets and segments to Axioma’s product capabilities and functionality – is key to our ability to drive sales efficiently.”
On the execution side, Connelly will collaborate with Marketing, Specialists and Sales to
Highvern’s funds team is to be the first administrator in Jersey to sign up with private capital software Altareturn. The move comes just a matter of months after Highvern launched its funds business.
“The majority of the fund administration market relies on systems that were created over 20 years ago, most of which treat accounting as a secondary component,” says James Bryant (pictured), Head of Operations. “We see AltaReturn as the next generation of administration systems and it offers a completely new level of functionality around transparency and investor reporting. This demonstrates our commitment to invest in the latest technology.”
QuantHouse, an independent provider of end-to-end high-performance market data and trading through API-based technologies, has reported strong double-digit revenue growth since its 2017 buyback from S&P.
Throughout 2017, QuantHouse has launched many strategic initiatives to accelerate growth including: the launch of an algo-trading stress testing solution; a UTC time source service in partnership with NPL; direct API access to Systematic Internalisers such as Sun Trading, Virtu Financial and Jane Street.
The company has also launched the QuantHouse qh API Ecosystem, which is designed to accelerate the adoption of multi-asset class API-based solutions including value added analytics, automated trading tools, AI
