Survey of European Insurers Reveals Remaining Challenges to Solvency II Compliance
A significant reliance on third parties for data, sophisticated risk modelling requirements and obtaining sufficiently detailed fund data were among the challenges identified by European insurers in order for them to meet Solvency II requirements, according to new research (...)
The environment of Asset Servicing activities has been experiencing significant structural movements for several years, generating both “major regulatory waves” sweeping particularly through Europe and a series of ground swells of “self-regulating” initiatives, such as the (...)
CPSS IOSCO: principles for financial market infrastructures
Through 24 principles and five responsibilities, including significant details and commentary, the BIS’s Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) and IOSCO have addressed the risks faced by financial market infrastructures (...)
AMF publishes 2010 report on credit rating agencies
The AMF’s seventh annual report on credit rating agencies (CRAs) covers international regulatory developments, the European registration procedure and credit ratings.
KBC Asset Management selects Axioma’s Risk Solutions for Equities
Axioma, a leading provider of enterprise market risk and portfolio management solutions, has entered into an agreement with KBC Asset Management (KBC), to provide Belgium’s largest investment manager with a risk management and portfolio optimization (...)
Turquoise selects QuantHouse to extend Turquoise Plato™ midpoint matching services across Europe
QuantHouse, the global provider of innovative market data services, trading and infrastructure solutions, today announced that Turquoise® has extended the QuantHouse real-time primary market data feeds to its Turquoise Plato™ midpoint matching (...)
Axioma Completes the Acquisition of ConceptONE’s Risk-Reporting Unit
Axioma reported the completion of its previously announced acquisition of the risk-reporting unit of ConceptONE, a global provider of back-office investment services. The transaction follows Axioma’s acquisition of ConceptONE’s regulatory-reporting unit in March. Terms were (...)
MST selects CACEIS as depositary for two closed-end ship funds
CACEIS will be acting as depositary for the first two mutual ship funds under the German KAGB investment act. The two closed-end funds, “MS Marguerita” and “MS Tanja”, will both be managed by “MST AIFM Eins Fondsmanager GmbH”, which is the investment management company of “MST (...)
Axioma Releases New Functionality for Multi-Asset Class Portfolio Optimization
New version of Axioma Portfolio Optimizer uses multi-asset class risk models from Axioma Risk Provides state-of-the-art construction tools for an increasingly multi-asset class investing environment