UBS
UBS Taps Orc for Real-time CME, ASX Derivatives Market Data, DMA
UBS has expanded its use of trading technology provider Orc's Electronic Execution direct market access service, to connect to the Australian Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for derivatives market data and trading access.
UBS Expands DMA Capabilities with Orc
UBS Securities has extended its broad usage of Orc's Electronic Execution solution to facilitate DMA on the ASX and CME.
Top Stories of 2014: Risk's Multiple Tech Vectors
Market, counterparty, credit, liquidity ... operational, cyber ... what's next?
Pinpointing Attributes
Accuracy and timeliness are in increasing demand for both identifiers and pricing
The Big Picture Of Solvency II
The European capital adequacy reporting regulation, taking effect in about a year, will require tracking of more data, under new classifications. Financial firms, including those serving the insurance sector that is the focus of the rules, are working…
SGX Signs TradingScreen to Launch Asian Bond-Trading Platform
To drive this initiative, SGX has formed a new subsidiary, SGX Bond Trading
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Broker-Supplied Tool/Technology—UBS Delta
While the buy side can claim tremendous gains furnishing its own technology, and in some cases even commoditizing it in recent years, the sell side remains one of the most important sources of technology for investment managers. This category is a…
Strong Mistrust of Banks Accelerates Risk-Related Spending
The fallout from the financial crisis is continuing to affect public perception of banks, while spending on risk is set to consume billions of dollars in the next few years, according to a senior UBS executive.
AxiomSL Hires Asia-Pacific CFO/COO
Tse To Lead Growth in Region
Major Banks Fined Billions for FX Market Abuse
Tier-one firms collectively penalized in joint regulatory action.
Solvency II: Getting Ready For 2016 -- Webcast
On November 6, Inside Reference Data hosted a webcast about readiness for the deadline to comply with Solvency II capital adequacy regulation
APFIC 2014: Firms Must Focus on Data Integration to Meet Risk Regs
Banks have just over a year to address data integration challenges of Basel's new risk requirements
Signs of CLOB Progress as Aggregators Adopt MAC Swaps
Product standardization will key order books' rise
KYC: Know Your Choices
Know-your-customer (KYC) requirements, hardly a bank’s most value-added function, have become a popular topic among operations, compliance, and reference data professionals, with a growing consensus that KYC checks can be done cheaper and more…
Frankfurt FIS 2014: For Regs, Prep Early and Coordinate
Firms must begin preparations to comply with new European and global regulation as soon as possible, setting up a priority-driven roadmap and boosting internal coordination, said panelists at this week's Frankfurt Financial Information Summit.
UBS Aligns Managed Services For Consistency
UBS’s London operations director Simon Feddo speaks with Michael Shashoua about how the firm has managed and succeeded in making improvements to know-your-customer and onboarding-related data
Kiseleva Joins Russian Repository From UBS
The National Settlement Depository appoints Anastasia Kiseleva as managing director, following two other director-level appointments made in August
EFIS 2014: Data Sophistication, Volumes Drive Users to Virtual Tech
To get the most out of increasingly sophisticated and voluminous datasets, firms must adopt a flexible approach to investing in technology infrastructure, according to panelists at this week's European Financial Information Summit.
EFIS 2014: Tighten Inventory Controls, Seek New Sources to Combat Cost Pressures, Says User Panel
Trading and investment firms still facing budget pressures are being more proactive about managing data costs, but are also being forced to be more proactive about seeking out new, cheaper alternative sources of data and managing their data usage to…
Corlito's Way: BTG Pactual COO Dayna Corlito
Thousands of miles from Copacabana Beach, BTG Pactual is doing things a once-small banking partnership from an emerging market shouldn’t be able to—managing a diverse group of admired hedge funds. Yes, the firm’s successful foray into asset management…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Broker-Dealer — UBS
At first blush, a single-dealer trading platform with aggregation capabilities would seem like an astonishingly simple idea. And yet, it’s at the conceptual level where any simplicity ends, and the long, hard technology work begins. For that reason, the…
Bloomberg-Rebranded UBS Indexes Continue Availability on Rimes BDS
Managed benchmark data services provider Rimes Technologies has added Bloomberg index data from Bloomberg to the range of data sources available via its Benchmark Data Service, which provides cloud-based data collection, validation, transformation,…
Thomson Reuters to Step Up UBS Index Data Integration, Post-Acquisition
Thomson Reuters says it will continue to distribute data on the UBS Convertible Indexes via its Eikon terminal, Elektron network and datafeeds, after acquiring the convertible bond benchmarks from UBS, renaming them the Thomson Reuters Convertible…
LEI's Big Payoff
While the legal entity identifier is starting to produce value for data management operations, Fatca and BCBS 239 could follow suit in similar fashion