Risk Management, Performance & Reporting
Northern Trust's Guenther On the Challenges of Risk Management at Inside Market Data Chicago 2013
Joerg Guenther, head of information technology at Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services discusses his presentation at this year's Inside Market Data Chicago conference, on the challenges faced by his organization as it embarked on a project to centralize…
Numerix Introduces New Volatility Framework for CrossAsset
The universal local stochastic volatility model with jumps (ULSVJ) will help firms to price and manage semi-exotic derivatives such as barrier options, and should prove particularly useful for market makers in FX and EQ options.
Visualization Tools Highlight Linedata Global Hedge Version 6.2
More even than compliance, Linedata’s hedge fund clients have been asking for help with real-time P&L and exposure management. Older versions of the Linedata Global Hedge product already included the requisite analytics, but its latest, version 6.2,…
Advent Unveils New Cloud Offering, Geneva 10.0 and Tamale 7.0 at Client Conference
Advent Software, at its annual AdventConnect conference in San Francisco, unveiled its new cloud offering, version 10.0 of its Geneva platform, and version 7.0 of its Tamale RMS solution.
SunGard Adds Reporting Services to its Astec Analytics Suite
SunGard has introduced reporting services to its Astec Analytics portfolio of solutions. The release will help customers generate customized reports on their borrowing and lending securities businesses.
Northern Trust Adds New Risk Reporting Capabilities
Northern Trust has expanded its investment risk reporting capabilities to include ex-ante, or forward looking, functionality.
Thomson Reuters Adds Country of Risk to DataScope
The data services provider is using an algorithm that considers factors including the domicile of a company and produces data about the top ten countries to which the company is exposed
SmartStream Debuts TLM SmartRecs
SmartStream has announced the release of TLM SmartRecs, a new system for the loading and delivery of documented reconciliation results.
Fenics to Provide FX Options Analysis to Shanghai Bank
Bank of Communications (BoC), a financial services group based in Shanghai, has licensed Fenics Professional, a pricing and risk management system for foreign exchange (FX) options from GFI subsidiary Fenics.
Mors Survey: Intra-day Liquidity Risk Projects Still Incomplete
Helsinki-based Mors Software, a provider of integrated real-time treasury and risk management technology to the sell side, has published the results of its annual liquidity risk management survey, carried out between May and July this year.
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PensionsFirst, WinTech Partner on Corporate Liability Risk
The new strategic partnership will leverage WinTech's asset liability modeling tool ProVal, with PensionsFirst's analytics software, PFaroe, allowing CFOs and treasurers to more easily migrate external data, monitor daily funded status, and dis-aggregate…
Fund Managers Say Good Tech Boosts Credibility
Portfolio managers say sound technology enhances an alternative buy-side firm’s credibility, according to new research from SunGard and Aite Group.
Succession Selected by BCS for Market Access Risk Management
BCS Prime Brokerage has announced that TripleCheck, Succession Systems' ultra-low-latency risk engine for direct market access (DMA), will be implemented at the firm for clients accessing Russian markets.
eVestment Adds Morningstar Data to Analytics Suite
Atlanta-based data and analytics provider eVestment will now include Morningstar data in its own suite of analytics solutions, including the recently acquired platforms from PerTrac and Fundspire.
Sky Road Teams with Numerix for Risk Analytics
Managed-services provider Sky Road will embed Numerix's CrossAsset risk analytics solution into its Motion Services Platform.
Siam Bank Selects BWise Platform for GRC
Thailand’s third-largest bank, Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), has selected BWise to support its governance, risk management and compliance (GRC)needs.
New FIA Study Suggests Futures Volatility Not Influenced by HFT
Research conducted for the Futures Industry Association by Nicholas Bollen and Robert Whaley at Vanderbilt University's Owen School of Management suggests that recent trading in 15 futures contracts has not become more volatile, despite increased…
Interactive Data Explores Demand for Country of Risk Information
The data vendor is investigating whether it has access to the data needed to produce country of risk information, after the challenges associated with this category of risk were highlighted during its inaugural Reference Data Advisory Group meeting
Panel Discusses the Intersection of Risk and Regulation
At a panel hosted by SunGard and moderated by The Economist, Wells Fargo's Steve Ellis encouraged firms to look at compliance with a glass-half-full perspective.
IBM Debuts Risk Manager
IBM has announced a new enterprise risk management solution for credit lifecycle management, featuring a dashboard that provides visibility into wholesale credit touchpoints.
Quantifi Tapped for ICE Futures Price-Spread Calculator
The analytics provider has released a new tool for pricing credit index futures listed by IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Futures U.S., backing increased demand for exchange-traded futures, which trade more cheaply than OTC derivatives under new global…
Southport Jumps on DealVector's Business Model
Holders of collateralized loan obligations, mortgage backed securities, and other structured credit have been forced into archaic means of locating each other. DealVector wants to bring that communication into the modern age.
Armanta CEO: The Risk Paradigm is Broken
Technology is overrated as a means of performing risk analytics, argues Peter Chirlian, CEO of New Jersey-based analytics platform provider Armanta. It’s the people that do the work; technology is little more than a tool.