Risk Management Technology

October 29th, 2012	Numerix Extends Its Windows Azure Solutions to Meet Financial Services Industry Needs for Cross-asset Valuation and Risk Management Numerix signs alliance agreement with Microsoft, commits to developing Windows Azure-enabled solutions for insurance and enterprise risk analytics Numerix (www.numerix.com), a leading provider of cross-asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management and a Microsoft Global Alliance Partner, today announced plans to enable additional Numerix solutions for use with Microsoft’s cloud platform, Windows Azure.
October 25th, 2012	Pricing Partners to Extend its CVA Engine to Provide Regulatory CVA VaR on all Derivatives Pricing Partners (www.pricingpartners.com), the world leader in OTC derivatives pricing analytics, mathematical models and independent valuations, announced today that it has extended its CVA engine to provide regulatory CVA VaR on all derivatives.
October 18th, 2012	Microgen Launches System to Integrate Finance and Risk Data New Microgen Accounting Hub Provides Banks with Transparency While Processing Hundreds of Millions of Transactions Per Hour Addressing the needs of the financial services market to implement seamless finance and risk controls, Microgen Plc (LSE: MCGN) today launched Version 3 (V3) of its Accounting Hub. With the ability to process hundreds of millions of transactions per hour, Microgen Accounting Hub V3 links finance and risk data from across the enterprise and enables firms to rapidly gain insight into performance and risk.
October 18th, 2012	Numerix Introduces Extensive Instrument Coverage for Municipal Derivatives in LiquidAsset Pricing Solution LiquidAsset 2.1 Helps Muni Advisors and Issuers Effectively Manage Muni Derivatives
October 18th, 2012	Imagine Software Introduces Alternative Investment Industry’s Next Generation of Risk Aggregation SkyBridge Capital Enhances Its Risk Practices with  Selection of Imagine’s New Service
October 10th, 2012	Chatham Financial Unveils Financial Risk Management Technology Cloud-Based Application, ChathamDirect, Now Available for Corporations Chatham Financial, an independent financial risk management advisory and technology solutions firm, today unveiled ChathamDirect for FX risk management, a cloud-based portfolio of applications that gives corporations the ability to manage foreign currency exchange risk from strategy through reporting. ChathamDirect is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application providing straight-through processing of financial risk management activities with a suite of modules including:
October 9th, 2012	Imagine’s Industry Validated Risk Management System Deployed by Expedition Advisors High Profile Start-Up Implements Imagine as Central Component of its Business Infrastructure
October 4th, 2012	Kyriba and 360T Join Forces to Deliver Straight-Through Processing for FX, Money Market, and Interest Rate Derivatives in the Cloud Integration offers Kyriba clients a complete workflow for online trading, portfolio tracking, and risk management Kyriba Corporation, the leader in cloud-based cash and treasury management solutions, and 360T, the leading independent global provider of a multi-bank, multi-asset trading platform, today announced a partnership to integrate 360T’s award winning, multi-dealer, foreign exchange, money market, and interest rate derivatives trading portal into Kyriba’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.
October 3rd, 2012	OpenLink Launches CubeIntelligence OpenLink Financial LLC (OpenLink), a leading provider of cross-asset trading, risk management and operations software solutions, today launched the CubeIntelligence portfolio of business intelligence solutions. The launch comes on the heels of the company’s recent acquisition of CubeLogic, now a wholly owned subsidiary of OpenLink.
October 1st, 2012	FinAnalytica Launches Cognity Managed Services SaaS Risk Offering - New solution suite driven by increasing demand for turnkey market risk services from the buy side

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SEF Rules Passed by CFTC this Week

After much anticipation, the CFTC passed final rules on the governance of swap execution facilities (SEFs) including rules on the minimum quotes required and swaps block rules.

Views vary on many elements of the newly approved rules with some industry participants believing the rules to be fair and others very problematic.

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