Provider Profile

  • "The prettiest girl at the dance"

    Markit Trade Processing is the subject of this week's Provider Profile

    Communicator Inc, now part of Markit Group Limited since May '06, was founded by Leo Schlinkert, ex-Salomon Smith Barney head of fixed income e-commerce, in 1999. The company was set up to help the buy and sell side communicate electronically, including the exchange of data on OTC derivatives trades.

    The firm's many successes include Bond.Hub, which aggregates research from the .......

    Provider Profile 18 October 2006

  • "The market will cope with a downturn"

    This week's Provider Profile is of structured credit lawyer Jeffrey Stern

    Jeffrey Stern

    Jeffrey Stern, a partner in the structured finance practice at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP in New York, has rich experience in the structured credit markets. He has been providing legal advice to market participants since the mid 90's – working for banks, collateral managers and monolines on all .......

    Provider Profile 11 October 2006

  • "The possibilities are endless"

    This week's Provider Profile looks at software firm Principia Partners

    Principia Partners provides the new generation of buy-side firms specialising in structured finance with a technology solution that enables them to manage their entire operational infrastructure. Principia SFP is a solution that allows firms to concentrate on their core competence – investing in structured finance securities and credits, while managing a dynamic funding pool of short- and medium-term liabilities.

    Provider Profile 4 October 2006

  • "The devil's in the detail"

    This week's Provider Profile centres on credit risk manageme...

    Capturing a big slice of the booming credit-style hedge fund sector is risk management software provider Point Nine's mission. Hedge funds' usage of credit-based products is certainly growing quickly, although, due to their well-known dislike of disclosure, it is difficult to determine exactly how many active credit-style investors there are.

    • Len Fricker
    "If you .......

    Provider Profile 27 September 2006

  • "Money is often the last reason for moving"

    In this week's provider profile, SCI talks to Piers Benbow,...

    Head-hunting firms have long been viewed as the estate agents of the financial community – moving (intellectual) property around the market each year, without much of a thought for who gets burned and taking huge fees for the privilege. While this may be a true picture of some of the bigger search firms with large numbers of temporary staff looking .......

    Provider Profile 20 September 2006

  • "The future is in structured products"

    This week our Provider Profile is of broker GFI

    Management guru Peter Drucker once said that business has only two functions: marketing and innovation. While some business managers might want to add a few more items to that list, it is undeniably true that if you market your successful innovations well enough, generally you will prosper. This certainly applies to inter-dealer broker GFI, when in the mid-90s it realised .......

    Provider Profile 13 September 2006

  • "We want to be the Gorilla"

    In this week's Provider Profile we talk to Andy White, globa...

    Reuters has an enviable position among the world's financial companies - it has more reach than most, thanks to its news service, and ubiquitous trading system Kondor+. Few vendors can boast such an 'in' with traders, and therefore it is something of a surprise that providing a risk management and trading system to satisfy the requirements of the most demanding .......

    Provider Profile 6 September 2006

  • "As the deal gets more complex, the transparency disappears"

    Buy-side analytics provider CDO2 is the subject of this week's Provider Profile.

    Fittingly for a firm that deals in the specifics of pricing, CDO2 was created with very specific aims. It was founded in early 2004 to provide a pricing service targeting structured credit investors and focussing on complex structured deals. Furthermore, CDO2 was set up with the express aim of plugging the gap between the price that investment banks put on .......

    Provider Profile 30 August 2006

  • "One size doesn't fit all."

    Profiling Calypso

    In this week's provider profile we talk to Umang Vithlani, sales executive responsible for credit derivatives, and Mas Nakachi, director of corporate development, at software house Calypso.

    Founded just nine years ago, Calypso is the brainchild of former Infinity software engineers who saw the need for a system that was designed to be cross-asset and function from front to back .......

    Provider Profile 23 August 2006

  • "We need to cater for all!"

    Profiling SunGard's Front Arena

    In the latest of our series of Provider Profiles we talk to Pontus Eriksson, product manager, credit and interest rate derivatives; and Peter Banham, global head of product and marketing groups, at SunGard's Front Arena.

    SunGard is one of the superpowers of financial technology: 110 separate companies and over 400 individual solutions have been either organically developed or acquired over .......

    Provider Profile 16 August 2006

  • "The more complex the problem, the more comfortable we are"

    Profiling Misys Summit

    In this week's Provider Profile we talk to Dan Cohen* and Emmanuel Nusimovici** from Misys Banking Systems.

    Misys Summit, part of the Misys technology empire since 1997, attributes its reputation as a star performer in the credit derivatives sector to the fact that its roots are in derivatives software, in contrast to software developers in other markets that have been .......

    Provider Profile 9 August 2006

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