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Eurohypo selects Front Arena
Eurohypo, the German mortgage bank created by Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank and Commerzbank, has selected the Front Arena IT system to manage its interest rate derivatives, fixed-income, credit derivatives, structured products and money markets trading.
Algo teams with Agena to solve op risk data history issue
Canadian risk management technology supplier Algorithmics has teamed up with UK software company Agena to help institutions to better model operational risk.
FT Interactive Data enhances BondEdge credit risk capabilities
FT Interactive Data, a Massachusetts-based supplier of financial information and analytical software, has expanded the credit risk management capabilities of its BondEdge fixed-income portfolio analytics product.
STP - Morgan Stanley Speeds FIX Monitoring
To better manage exposures, the firm realized traffic running through its electronic trading network had to be monitored in real time.
Reuters 3000Xtra offered via servers
Reuters has developed a centrally managed server farm that should allow clients to deploy its premium information and trading Reuters 3000Xtra terminals at reduced cost.
RMS releases portfolio-based pricing for weather derivatives
Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a California-based provider of software for managing natural hazard risks, has released version 3.3 of its Climetrix weather derivatives trading and risk management system.
Korea’s Koram Bank joins SuperDerivatives
Korea’s Koram Bank, a joint venture established by a consortium of local conglomerates, has joined SuperDerivatives, the internet-enabled currency options pricing system.
Moneyline Telerate to offer GFI repo data
Moneyline Telerate will offer access to inter-dealer broker GFI’s European repo data in the next couple of months, and plans to offer other GFI data later this year.
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Commerzbank, IBM Mull Outsourcing Deal
FRANKFURT—In what looks like a pioneering deal, Commerzbank is working out the details of an IT outsourcing arrangement with IBM that would see the vendor take on responsibility not just for low-level infrastructure, but complete management of major…