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Smoke and mirrors
It's time to revisit the perennial challenge of hedge fund valuation practices. Investors may now be asking more pertinent and accurate questions by way of due diligence studies regarding how managers price their portfolio holdings, although many funds…
Interactive Data division unveils hedge fund net asset value service
Interactive Data's Pricing and Reference Data division is rolling out a service for collecting and disseminating hedge fund net-asset values (NAVs) in standardised format via existing distribution channels. The service, developed over the last 12 months…
Month in Numbers
'Throwing spaghetti on the wall and seeing what sticks won't let you control the risk associated with the execution'
BNY ConvergEx Preps For Reg NMS
Just over six months ago, The Bank of New York (BNY) partnered with buy-side order management system provider Eze Castle Software and private equity firm GTCR Golder Rauner to launch the institutional trading and investment technology firm BNY ConvergEx…
Markit Readies LCDX Index Launch
LCDX, a North American loan-only credit default swap index, is expected to launch in early May, coinciding with the launch of a new market standard identifier for credit agreements and loan tranches, provided by Markit RED Loans.
CBOE, CBSX to Extend Activ Data Installation
The Chicago Board Options Exchange plans to expand an installation of Activ Financial's ticker plant technology to provide equities market depth data to the exchange's 441 options traders.
Mitsubishi Deploys Gissing Contribution Tool
The Rates Trading Group of Japanese bank Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International (MUSI) has deployed a new pricing system across its London and Tokyo offices to calculate and distribute rates for bonds, swaps and futures contracts via linked spreadsheets…
Roundtable: Tracking Indexes
Index data—once restricted to headline values and end-of-day files—is increasingly used as the basis for adventurous front-office trading strategies and for the creation of new investment vehicles based on or linked to established or custom-developed…
Nasdaq Steps Up Commercial Focus on Index Watch
Nasdaq has moved the management and sales function for its online Index Watch product from the exchange's Financial Products division to its market data group, headed by vice president of market data distribution Randall Hopkins.
OMX Integrates Cicada for New Feed
Nordic exchange operator and technology provider OMX will retire its legacy Targin market data platform when it introduces the OMX Genium Market Info feed next year, which is largely built around the Composer Plus system from Cicada.