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Linedata has launched a new release of Linedata Derivation, which provides real-time risk, analytics and portfolio management solutions to institutional and hedge fund managers across all asset types and structures.
Linedata says firms today recognise the importance of risk oversight for all areas they are increasingly concerned with – such as exposure, VaR and simulated stress testing. Linedata Derivation’s development methodology is fully based on such client feedback.
Linedata Derivation’s new capabilities focus on interconnectivity in enhanced order management and pre-trade compliance, enhanced analytics for new pricing models, and an intuitive UX using modern technology that simplifies complex views
FastMatch, a Fintech company focused on foreign exchange trading, has joined the IPC FX Hub.
IPC's FX Hub supports the global foreign exchange markets through Equinix's International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in New York (NY4), London (LD4), Tokyo (TY3) and Singapore (SG2) as well as other major FX centres such as Moscow, Chicago, Hong Kong, Frankfurt and Zurich.
All centres have connectivity to IPC's vast community of financial market participants and low latency access via IPC's dark fibre rings to key FX liquidity providers and dealers.
The collaboration between IPC and FastMatch enables market participants within the
The Managed Funds Association (MFA) has appointed its board of directors for 2016-17, which it says is diverse in firm size and geographic make-up and comprised of fund managers, public and private pension funds, banks and accounting firms.
It will provide governance oversight to MFA and help guide the association’s advocacy, education and communications efforts.
MFA’s returning officers are: board chair David C Haley, president, HBK Capital Management; vice chair Michael S Harris, president, Campbell & Company; and secretary Bruce S Darringer, member and chief operating officer, King Street Capital Management.
MFA board members elected Natalie Deak Jaros,
EBS BrokerTec, ICAP's electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business, has gone live with EBS Live Ultra, its fastest FX data product to date.
EBS Live Ultra has two data interval rates: 100 milliseconds, the same as the current EBS Live service but with lower latency; and 20 milliseconds, five times faster than the EBS Live data product.
A direct response to EBS customers’ desire for ever-improving data provision, EBS Live Ultra delivers data to the spot FX market in real time. A low latency service, it will improve price discovery, enhance the lit FX market and increase
Hazeltree, a provider of integrated buy-side treasury management solutions, has added JP Morgan Asset Management to the expanding partner network of Hazeltree LiquidityWeb, an integrated cash management and sweep platform.
This new partnership provides a straight-through process between buy-side firms and JP Morgan money market funds to provide safe, liquid, and yield-enhancing opportunities.
Available investment vehicles will include commercial paper, US Government and US Treasury money market funds.
Hazeltree says the addition of these products will help hedge funds and other buy-side clients respond to the SEC’s new money market fund reform rules, scheduled to take effect in
FINCAD is holding a follow-up to its incredibly popular July live webinar “Negative Rates: Dealing with an Unorthodox Experiment,” with an interactive discussion tomorrow, 28 September, designed to help answer any questions arising from this pressing topic.
The live Q&A session, which is scheduled for 11am ET, 8pm PT and 4 PM BST, will be completely audience-driven. There will be no pitch from FINCAD, just open, honest answers to questions on negative rates and related industry topics.
CLICK HERE TODAY to reserve a spot for this important, and sure to be highly-informative, interactive discussion.
The hosts for the session will
Richard Fleischman & Associates Inc (RFA) has launched the RFA Multi-Cloud platform to enable RFA clients to more efficiently scale up and scale down their cloud platform requirements in line with their business needs. And, importantly, in full compliance with regulation.
The new cloud solution builds upon the success of RFA’s private cloud – an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering – which sees RFA partnering with Amazon and Microsoft, giving clients the flexibility to use public cloud services in tandem with private cloud services with the same guaranteed level of performance and security.
This latest development marks an important stage in the
Volante Technologies, a provider of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of financial messages and payments, is partnering with Finexus to provide the key MT to MX message transformations in complex multi-currency Real-time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system implementations.
Finexus is a Malaysian-headquartered and Asia Pacific region-based digital payment solutions and services provider.
Finexus and Volante’s first project in the region is a multi-year implementation at a central bank and is part of a larger, global internationalisation and modernisation process, to build and maintain RTGS and Scripless Securities Settlement systems in the Asia-Pacific region.
Finexus chose to work
CubeLogik is creating a cloud-based one-stop-shop version of its CubeIntelligence platform for credit risk, market risk, liquidity management and regulatory compliance.
Headquartered in London, with representation in the US and Asia, CubeLogik was formerly an operating division of OpenLink, but is now a fully independent entity with management led by industry veterans David Priestley (pictured) and Lee Campbell.
Priestley says: “Market volatility, coupled with increasingly onerous regulatory changes, are driving the disciplines of credit risk, market risk and liquidity management closer together. Our clients require integrated, highly functional solutions that will sit on top of their trading and accounting
IHS Markit is teaming up with AITEC and the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) to strengthen its Know Your Third Party (KY3P) platform.
The relationship brings together KY3P’s private cloud, one-to-many platform with the AITEC-AIMA Illustrative Questionnaire for Due Diligence of Vendor Cyber Security.
The new questionnaire available on KY3P enables AITEC and AIMA member firms to centralise their approach for vendor outreach and establish a workflow and governance process to promote timelier, efficient and quality responses. Member firms also have the flexibility to add their own supplemental questions for vendor response.
“AIMA is delighted that, as a
