By Amir Halfon, Senior Director for Technology, Capital Markets, Oracle Financial Services
VTB Capital, the investment banking business of Moscow based VTB Group, has implemented Quantifi’s OTC analytics, pricing and portfolio valuation solution to support its recently established credit derivatives and hybrids trading desks, and to reduce risk.
Earlier this week, GoldenSource indicated that longstanding client M&G Investments has upgraded its implementation of the EDM vendor’s platform (see the release 
This week’s FIMA conference in London as usual saw industry practitioners discussing their recurring bugbears – IP rights within the vendor community, a lack of budget for more strategic data management projects (outside of those tied to compliance) and coping with the cost cutting exercises sweeping the financial services community – but it also involved a number of very interesting ideas being aired with regards to potential collaborative approaches in the data management space.
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Capital markets surveillance and compliance specialist b-next has taken its CMC:Suite into the cloud to offer software as a service (SaaS) solutions to banks, brokers, asset managers and hedge funds via Thomson Reuters’ Elektron cloud for the financial industry. And there is more to come, with the Frankfurt based company planning to distribute its products beyond Europe and partner a complex event processing (CEP) software supplier to provide near real-time compliance and market surveillance.
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