Technology
CBOT signs on for Radianz services
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) has signed a three-year deal with Radianz to provide an outsourced IP network to deliver its real-time data, CBOT and Radianz officials say.
Principia expands its credit functionality
Principia Partners, a Jersey City-based risk management technology vendor, said it has enhanced the credit derivatives capability of its Principia System front- to back-office product.
SAS launches new risk management practice in the UK
SAS, a North Carolina-based risk technology and analytics company, has set up a new UK risk management practice for enterprise risk services. It will focus on helping organisations in the financial services and energy sectors identify and understand…
Sophis updates buy-side software
Sophis, a risk management technology vendor based in Paris, has released Value v2.0, a new version of its product for buy-side insitutions.
Barra to lay off 9% of workforce
Barra, the Berkeley, California-based risk management technology vendor, is to reduce its workforce by approximately 9%, from 519 employees to 470 employees worldwide.
Risk Europe 2003: Reuters signs deal with NumeriX for exotic derivatives libraries
Reuters has signed a deal with NumeriX, the US derivatives analytics company, to offer a suite of exotic derivatives pricing libraries for customers of its Kondor+ flagship risk management system. The deal was unveiled at Risk 's eighth annual Risk…
NumeriX enhanced to support more complex credit products
US analytics company NumeriX has enhanced its core analytics toolkit and engine to meet demand from a rapidly evolving credit derivatives market. The modifications will allow users to model, price and manage the risk of a broad range of sophisticated…
Reuters and IBM team up in Asia-Pacific
Reuters has teamed up with IBM Financial Services to offer risk management systems and consulting services to small and medium sized financial institutions in Asia-Pacific.
Thomson Financial releases new 'Vestek' risk model
Canadian information and technology provider Thomson Financial has released its 'Vestek Fundamental Risk Model', which is designed to identify the sources and size of portfolio risks.
RiskMetrics acquires on-line technology from JP Morgan Chase Private Banking
New York-based risk technology vendor RiskMetrics has acquired Arrakis, the technology platform developed by JP Morgan’s Private Banking Group in 1999 to support the bank’s online site for clients, Morgan OnLine.
Tech glitch strikes CLS
The failed settlement of more than 20,000 Australian dollar and yen trades on the continuous-linked settlement (CLS) service last week was caused by multiple technical faults, senior CLS officials said.
CBA to use Fenics FX for options trading on worldwide basis
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has employed New York-headquartered GFI Group’s Fenics FX system as its global standard foreign exchange options pricing and analysis tool. The bank will deploy the system as the standard interface in all of its…
Tullett signs up to SwapsWire
Inter-dealer broker Tullett today said it has joined the industry-backed electronic platform SwapsWire to provide its interest rate derivatives clients with straight-through-processing (STP) capabilities. SwapsWire, built by a consortium of 23…
KMV enhances Portfolio Manager analytics
Moody's KMV, a provider of quantitative credit risk tools to investors and corporations, has added its LossCalc model to its Portfolio Manager risk management product. LossCalc is used to determine the risk and return characteristics of portfolios of…
GFI launches Hull and White credit derivatives calculator
New York-based inter-dealer broker GFI has launched its credit derivatives pricing tool, Fenics Credit. GFI partnered with risk management and derivatives academics John Hull and Alan White to develop the tool.
SEI links with RiskMetrics to improve hedge fund risk reporting
SEI Investments, an alternative investment fund service based in Pennsylvania, has teamed up with New York-based risk analytics company RiskMetrics in a bid to solve the discrepancy between investors seeking accurate risk reporting from hedge funds and…
Sophis adds credit derivatives pricing to risk platform
Sophis, a risk management technology vendor based in Paris, has enhanced its 'Risque 'portfolio and risk management system with added credit derivatives pricing and risk management capabilities.
CBA enhances risk management and dealing technology
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has carried out a series of initiatives aimed at enhancing efficiencies in its dealing and risk management operations.
Front adds back-office capability to Arena
Front Capital Systems, a Stockholm-based operating unit of Pennsylvania-based technology company SunGard, will finalise development of a new back-office capability next month that it will offer as part of its flagship trading system, Front Arena.
Algorithmics launches Algo Risk on Bloomberg
Algorithmics, the Toronto-headquartered provider of risk management software, has launched its Algo Risk risk management application, a product developed in partnership with news and information provider Bloomberg.
Tullett expands SwapMarker coverage
Tullett Financial, a subsidiary of inter-dealer broker Tullett, which provides data on derivatives products, has brought together its North American and European SwapMarker services to offer a single global service for real-time interest rate derivatives…
£60 billion Isis fund signs up to Riskdata
Isis, a £60 billion UK investment fund created through the merger of Friends Ivory & Sime and Royal & SunAlliance Investments at the end of last year, has signed up to use an interactive risk management system developed by Paris-based company Riskdata.
Eurohypo selects Front Arena
Eurohypo, the German mortgage bank created by Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank and Commerzbank, has selected the Front Arena IT system to manage its interest rate derivatives, fixed-income, credit derivatives, structured products and money markets trading.
Algo teams with Agena to solve op risk data history issue
Canadian risk management technology supplier Algorithmics has teamed up with UK software company Agena to help institutions to better model operational risk.