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Mizuho selects FNX for interest rate derivatives processing
Japan’s Mizuho Bank has licensed FNX’s Sierra System for use in processing interest rate futures and options.
IDEAglobal moves into credit derivatives
IDEAglobal, a Singapore-based market research company best known for its fixed-income commentary, is moving into credit derivatives.
RiskMetrics sees demand growing for ASP platforms
The adoption of application service provider (ASP)-based financial risk management systems is increasing rapidly, according to RiskMetrics.
Standard & Poor's enters portfolio risk modelling
Standard & Poor's (S&P) Risk Solutions has launched a portfolio risk tracker model. The model covers both credit and market risk, which should allow banks to calculate their economic capital and perform risk assessments across the full range of risks…
Sponsor's article > Operational Risk and its impact on Investment Managers: A system solution perspective
Operational risk is a major issue for investment managers due to advances in back office automation and increased outsourcing.
HVB’s US operations upgrade with Front Arena
HVB Americas, the US arm of Germany’s HVB Group, is upgrading to SunGard’s Front Capital Arena version 2.0, to ensure the smooth start-up of a new business in Bermuda. HVB Americas said it needed the latest product since older Arena versions were…
Dutch debt office opts for Trema
The Dutch State Treasury Agency (DSTA) has licensed a debt financing software system, Finance Kit, from France-headquartered financial software provider Trema.
Algorithmics to launch Linux version of Algo Suite
Algorithmics of Canada, an enterprise risk management solutions provider, said today it will launch a fully supported Linux version of Algo Suite by the end of the third quarter of this year.
GlobeOp grabs JP Morgan/Cygnifi fixed-income software
GlobeOp Financial Services, a risk management, operations and administration service provider to the global funds management community, has bought a risk reporting and valuation analytics library, developed by JP Morgan and its now-defunct technology…
Cantor subsidiary files patent infringement suit
Interdealer-broker Cantor Fitzgerald’s trading technology subsidiary eSpeed has filed a patent infringement suit against electronic fixed-income trading platform BrokerTec, while separately a court case pertaining to alleged constructive dismissal…
Veolia Environnement’s risk revolution
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Technology briefs - 7/1/03
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JP Morgan expands BCP plans
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Rolfe & Nolan names new chairman
UK derivatives back-office vendor, Rolfe & Nolan, has appointed John Hamer as its new chairman.