Xenomorph provides trusted data management solutions to many of the world’s leading financial institutions.
With more than two decades’ experience managing large volumes of complex data and analytics we can quickly configure a solution for your requirements.
Supporting Your Business Through Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Although the current circumstances are anything but business as usual, Xenomorph is committed to providing full continuity of service to all of our valued clients around the world.
Since our business has long embraced geographically dispersed teams, remote working practices and collaboration tools, we are fully able to service all existing and new business requirements.…
Structured Products Technology
The market for ‘structured products’ is experiencing a revival. Given the current prolonged period of low and in many cases negative-yielding assets (particularly in real terms), structured products offer investors innovative ways to seek an uptick in returns while also potentially limiting their risk.…
Benchmarks Regulation: Data Integrity, Validation and Auditable Processes
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) earlier this month published a consultation paper outlining technical standards relating to its Benchmarks Regulation, which governs the way indices and other benchmarks are calculated. The consultation is open until the 9th of May, at which point ESMA will consider feedback and expects to publish a final report by the 1st of October 2020.…
Managing Market Data in the Cloud
Anyone attending last week’s FISD Technology Forum in London will have been treated to a very enjoyable afternoon. Not only was the event well attended, offering a great networking opportunity (special thanks to the team at FISD and host sponsors JP Morgan); but the content being debated was also first class (particular kudos to David Anderson).…
New SEC Fund Leverage Rules – What you need to know
This article has been updated to reflect the fact that the SEC voted to adopt Rule 18f-4, incorporating changes to the original proposed rules.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has passed a set of rules to limit leverage and use of derivatives by US funds.…
Model Risk Management: Driving Data Quality and Auditable Processes
Financial models are pervasive across the industry. But controls over how they are used are not that well evolved. As a consequence I thought I would look at the benefits of applying enterprise data management techniques to control model-derived data and address model risk management challenges.…
Examining the Rules of Valuation for Investment Managers
At Xenomorph we are always looking to stay one step ahead of our clients’ requirements for data management solutions. To do that we aim to maintain a close understanding not only of their core business operations (across front, middle and back-office functions) but also their regulatory obligations.…
EDM in the Cloud: Understanding the Business Case
The economic case for cloud services is more complex than first meets the eye. Comparing any in-house supported technology to one delivered as a cloud service is inherently fraught with subjectivity; depending on your point-of-view and assumptions one could argue the business case for either side.…
No Data Point is an Island
Modelling Data Dependencies
Across the capital markets universe there are a myriad of complex interdependencies always in play. Whether it’s the relationship between an index and its constituents, an option and its underlying or an ETF and its benchmark – there are very few data points that are not intrinsically linked to at least one other (if not many more).…
Mizuho Americas Deploys Xenomorph EDM+ on Microsoft Azure
NEW YORK, LONDON AND SINGAPORE: Xenomorph today announced that the securities division of Mizuho Americas, the US-based subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group, has upgraded to the latest generation of TimeScape EDM+, Xenomorph’s enterprise data management platform running on Microsoft Azure.
Mizuho Americas has been a longstanding user of Xenomorph’s TimeScape platform to normalize, enrich, validate and cleanse all critical data supporting the firm’s trading and risk operations.…