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Spreadsheets: a tool you can trust?
For more than two decades, spreadsheets have been the tool of choice for financial services firms. But do they contain hidden dangers? Dianne See Morrison reports
Reuters' outages help competitors
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Credit model meltdown
Dealers are trading increasingly high volumes of bespoke tranches of synthetic credit risk with each other, yet there still appears to be little consensus on the application of credit models. Is there a danger the house of cards may come tumbling down?
SwapsWire expands equity derivatives service
London-based electronic confirmation service SwapsWire plans to roll out its equity option confirmation service across Asia after the launch of the service in Japan earlier this year.
Misys nails three major treasury deals in Asia
Misys Banking Systems, a unit of London-based software company Misys, has signed up three leading Asian financial institutions to use Misys Summit for their treasury and capital market requirements.
Surveying risk management
How is risk management viewed in your company? Are there risks you would like to measure but don’t? Which methodologies are most commonly used? What should the discipline tackle next? Energy Risks’ survey reveals recent trends in risk management.
Markit and Calypso join forces to speed up trade confirmations
London-based data provider Markit and San Francisco capital markets trading software company Calypso have announced that the US-based company will integrate Markit Trade Processing into its software platform.
SunGard appoints Nayak to head its Basel II business unit
A leading solutions provider for financial services has appointed a head of product development to its Basel II BancWare business unit.
The MiFID Threat
Thanks to compliance, many of the European Union’s smaller exchanges now face fresh competition.
Speed and compliance dominate data market
Despite consolidations and rationalisations, user firms are paying more for market data than ever before, according to speakers on a panel entitled "Small change: A look at market data spending" at sister publication Inside Market Data’s Europe…