Northern Trust to Offer Venn from Two Sigma Northern Trust is expanding its relationship with quantitative analytics solutions provider Two Sigma so that it can offer the Venn cloud-based investment analytics platform to its clients, officials say. The Venn analytics and research support have been designed for asset allocators. “Venn provides analytics on a pre-trade… Read More >>
OpenGamma & IHS Markit Target Margining Rules
OpenGamma & IHS Markit Begin Collaboration OpenGamma, which characterizes itself as a margin optimization provider, reports a new collaboration with IHS Markit, which characterizes itself as a provider of critical securities information, analytics and solutions. The vendors are jointly offering a system for mutual clients looking to reduce the cost of margin management. Their offering… Read More >>
BlackRock’s Aladdin Moves to Microsoft’s Azure Cloud
Aladdin to Get Scalability, More Client Capabilities Microsoft will be hosting the infrastructure for the BlackRock’s Aladdin investment management and operations platform via the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, a move that the asset manager says will facilitate scalability for computing power and new client capabilities. BlackRock and Microsoft Corp. formed a hosting partnership for Aladdin,… Read More >>
GLEIF & ANNA Launch ISIN-to-LEI Mapping Effort
ANNA & GLEIF Join Forces for Regulatory Reporting An initiative is underway that will link International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) to Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) for global financial services transactions. The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) have announced that April 4, 2019 marks the start of… Read More >>
Initial Margin Levels Could Soar via Volatility: Report
The initial margin (IM) required for derivatives trading could nearly double as global financial markets face the onslaughts of volatility, trade tariff tensions, future U.S. interest rates increases, and growing debt pressures, according to new research released by OpenGamma, an analytics provider for derivative transactions. The findings in “The Impact Explained of Market Volatility on… Read More >>
New IM Burdens Spur Vendors Into Action
New rules for posting initial margin (IM) for bilateral over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives instruments are looming for buy-side firms as vendors, service providers, consultants and others are ramping up their offerings in anticipation of expensive and painful compliance burdens to come. The tougher IM requirements stem from the G20-sanctioned mandates of the Basel Committee on Banking… Read More >>
OpenGamma Gets $13.3M to Push Risk Analytics Standards
A vendor offering open source risk analytics for derivatives, OpenGamma reports that it has raised $13.3 million in total from venture capital firm Accel, ICAP’s Euclid Opportunities investment arm, and Cristóbal Conde, the former president and CEO of SunGard, all in a bid to accelerate plans to become the maker of benchmark industry-standard risk analytics…. Read More >>
Commerzbank Signs On for Hosted Margining
A German firm, Commerzbank, is the first sell-side institution to use OpenGamma’s new, hosted margining service as the bank grapples with the rise in demand for pre-trade margin comparison requests, bank officials say. The hosted OpenGamma for Margining “comes at a time when Category 2 market participants are just two months away from joining Category… Read More >>
OpenGamma Adds Conde, Beeston to Board of Execs
Risk management software provider OpenGamma has reshuffled its board of executives, with the position of chairman changing hands, and Cristóbal Conde, the former CEO of SunGard, joining the board, according to a company statement. Kirk Wylie, a co-founder of OpenGamma, will step down as chairman, following his decision to take on the role of chief… Read More >>
OpenGamma Hires from LCH.Clearnet
OpenGamma, a provider of risk management and analytics solutions, has hired Mohamed Ait Si Brahim from LCH.Clearnet to be its vice president of engineering, officials say. Ait Si Brahim, with more than 15 years’ experience in capital markets, risk management and technology, will focus on further improving OpenGamma’s engineering practices, ongoing product development and client… Read More >>
