Risk Management, Performance & Reporting
Markit Readies Front-Office Upgrade for OTC Charges
Markit has announced new calculations in its front-office analytics suite, designed to help customers cope with a range of complex regulatory calculations from a single application.
Chief Data Officer: A Role Under Construction
Over the past few years, the capital markets have witnessed the promotion of data executives to the role of chief data officer (CDO), elevating data issues to the C-level. Marina Daras looks at how CDOs are making their way to the top of primarily sell…
SS&C GlobeOp Opens Cloud Portal to the Buy Side
SS&C GlobeOp, the fund admin unit of SS&C Technologies, has extended its cloud-based portal to all of its global fund administration service clients, including hedge funds, fund of funds, private equity and managed accounts clients.
HDFC Taps Numerix for Risk Management
Mumbai-based HDFC Bank has selected Numerix Portfolio to help consolidate its risk processes.
Linedata Adds Private Equity Capabilities
Linedata has added private equity administration functionality to its back office platform.
eClerx Unveils ISDA CSA Solution
Business processing provider eClerx has launched a new product to allow firms to better manage ISDA credit support annex (CSA) documents. The new product, called ISDA CSA Document Risk Review, is designed to help firms better manage their credit risk.
Counterparty Credit Models Herald New Workflows
Initial cost and hardware limitations are often tallied as potential problems for sell-side firms complying with new capital-charge requirements by optimizing netting strategies and collateral usage. Now those firms face a different challenge: where to…
Six Partners with swissQuant for ImpaQt Launch
Data services provider Six Financial Information and swissQuant have launched ImpaQt, a portfolio risk-management system, to support the wealth-management industry in meeting regulatory requirements for client protection, pre-trade suitability and risk.
SEC Announces Quant Analysis Unit
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced a number of new initiatives designed to combat fraud and market abuse, including a unit dedicated to risk and data analysis, within its enforcement arm.
Swedbank Robur Online with SimCorp for Solvency II
The Swedish asset manager, with about $70 billion actively managed across 130 funds and institutional clients in Scandinavia and the Baltics, has expanded its previous SimCorp Dimension implementation with an add-on for the upcoming regulation targeting…
Real-Time Risk Management webcast
Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on June 26, 2013 to discuss how financial trading firms are looking to aggregate their risk exposure on a real-time basis and the challenges they face.
The Pitfalls of Social Media
If the Mark Zuckerberg movie taught us anything, it's that there's plenty of drama in social networking. Usage of these tools is sky high in our personal lives. That shouldn't automatically carry over to our business lives.
Numerix Launches Risk Scenario Framework
Analytics and risk management provider Numerix has released a new scripting language for "defining bespoke risk scenarios, stress tests and greeks."
StatPro Adds New Module to its StatPro Revolution Platform
StatPro Group, a portfolio analytics provider, has added a global exposure and liquidity monitoring module to its portfolio analysis and reporting platform, StatPro Revolution, to aid compliance with UCITS regulations.
Nasdaq OMX Unveils Pre-Trade Risk Management Service for Commodities
Nasdaq OMX has rollout out a new pre-trade risk management service geared toward the commodities market, dubbed Genium INET PRM.
Numerix, TMX Group Team on Risk Solution
Numerix is partnering with TMX Technology Solutions, the tech arm of TMX Group, where TMX's Razor Risk enterprise risk management product will leverage Numerix's library of risk and pricing models from its solutions for credit risk, market risk and…
Lighthouse Taps SS&C GlobeOp for CVA
Investment management firm Lighthouse Partners, which serves fund of hedge funds, will use fund administrator SS&C GlobeOp to perform credit value adjustment (CVA) calculations.
Buy-Side Firms Grapple With 24-Hour Global Tech, Operations
At a recent conference in New York, major buy-side firms discussed the significant IT and staffing-related challenges associated with growing their businesses globally.