May 21st, 2018 | Richard Dixon Last year saw quite a few proclamations around the role of climate ...
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May 21st, 2018 | Richard Dixon Last year saw quite a few proclamations around the role of climate ...
Windstorms were responsible for 45% of UK household weather-related insurance claims between 1998 and 2013. Yet current methods for estimating UK wind hazard can lack the spatial resolution required to fully resolve this risk. With windstorm being one of the most expensive natural perils for UK insurers, we have partnered with UCL Space & Climate Physics researchers to offer ...
Transparency provider Simplitium™ today announced it has partnered with Fathom, a global flood model provider formed out of the University of Bristol Hydrology Research Group, to offer its flood hazard data. Simplitium has also partnered with UCL Space & Climate Physics researchers to offer their wind hazard maps. Both hazard data sets are available via Simplitium’s ModExTM ...
Simplitium announces that Smart Pension (‘Smart’), one of the leading UK Master Trusts, has signed ...
Simplitium™, a global financial services solutions provider and subsidiary of Cinnober Financial Technology (CINN:SS), is pleased to announce they have signed an agreement with Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC to deliver a dedicated ModEx™ catastrophe risk modelling solution.
Perceived high costs, IT requirements, multiple platforms, and general resistance to change are ...
Tom Hibbard from our ClaritEx team will be attending PBUK this year. PBUK offers the opportunity to discuss the latest developments, share industry thought leadership and connect with over 900 like-minded pensions industry professionals. Date: 26 - 27 June 2018 Book a meeting with the Tom at the conference.
Stewart Bevan and Tom Hibbard from our ClaritEx team will be attending this event, the largest of its kind dedicated to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) that has over 13,000 employers, over 5 million members and assets of over £225 billion. The conference attracts 400 attendees including local authority officers, councillors and their advisers. Date: 21 - 23 May ...
Join leading stakeholders and influencers from across the DC pensions to hear Stewart Bevan, Head of Pensions Product, discuss ‘The Role of Technology in Improving Engagement & Member Outcomes’ alongside Sam Barton, Chief Technology Officer, Smart Pension. The event will provide a thorough review of the outlook for the DC pensions sector in the UK, and the opportunities and ...
With the first deadline for publishing MiFID II Execution Quality reports rapidly approaching, Simplitium and BestExHub are hosting this webinar to discuss how firms can comply with their new Best Execution reporting obligations. Date: 24 April 2018 Time: 14.00 Under MiFID II, investment firms and execution venues are required to publish a range of Execution Quality data, as ...
To assist clients with their RTS 27, RTS 28 and Delegated Acts Art 65(6) (DA65(6)) obligations, Simplitium have partnered with industry expert BestExHub for their Best Execution reporting services. BestExHub provides an independent Best Execution reporting platform to help firms meet their regulatory RTS 27, RTS 28 and DA 65(6) obligations. The cloud-based service allows firms ...
Are Collective Defined Contribution (CDC) pension schemes the future of the UK Pensions industry or simply a distraction from other important issues? In this article for the April 2018 edition of Pensions Age, Tom Hibbard, Head of Pensions Business Development at Simplitium, weighs in on the debate.
A core component of MiFID II transparency is the extension of the SI regime to non-equity, but how ...
The TRADEcho and FacilitEx teams will be attending the TradeTech Europe 2018 Conference on 25-26 April in Paris. The conference will explore key issues in equity trading including the impact of MiFID II on market structure and trading behaviour and how the Systematic Internaliser Regime is impacting access to market and liquidity.
In this feature for Professional Pensions, Stewart Bevan, Head of Pensions Product Develop at Simplitium, explains why the pensions industry needs to stop ignoring the benefits of PenTech and look at the positives it has to offer.
Stewart Bevan, Simplitium's Head of Pensions Product Development and Member of the FCA's Institutional Disclosure Working Group (IDWG), will be speaking on the topic of Cost Transparency at the Investment Governance and Fiduciary Management for Pension Funds Conference hosted by SPS.
Through alternative risk and model approaches - Takeaways from the Aventedge Cat Risk Management & ...
Join FacilitEx and TRADEcho at the FIX EMEA Trading Conference 2018 at the Old Billingsgate in ...
In this article for Pensions Age, Simplitium’s Stewart Bevan is quoted discussing the importance of Cost Transparency in providing Pension Schemes with vital insights to help them improve their investment decisions.
Join the TRADEcho and FacilitEx teams at The Trade's MiFID II Check In event on the 28th of February at the Merchant Taylors' Hall in London. Per Loven, Commercial Director of Simplitium, will be speaking on a panel at 15:15 about reporting under MiFID II. If you would like to book a meeting with either the TRADEcho or FacilitEx team during the conference, please contact Per ...
For the more "mature" perils where models are 15, 20 or 25 years old there is plenty that we have ...
In this feature for Pensions Insight, Stewart Bevan, Head of Pensions Product Development at Simplitium, discusses the outlook for the UK pensions industry and the importance of cost transparency in the market.
Simplitium has been featured in an article for Professional Pensions which discusses ClaritEx, the new cost transparency solution that is being developed for pension schemes.
Simplitium™, the financial services transparency specialist and a Cinnober Group company, today ...
Simplitium's cat risk modelling platform embraces the Oasis ecosystem to bring more choice to (re)insurers FinTech provider Simplitium, today announces the delivery of their new user interface for ModEx, the multi-peril catastrophe (cat) risk modelling platform operated on the Oasis Loss Modelling Framework (LMF). The new user interface provides firms with a centralised source ...
Regulatory scrutiny of cost transparency is growing for all participants in the Pensions industry, with further obligations due in 2018. Managing costs and charges associated with a pension scheme is central to its operation and can have a significant impact on the success of a scheme over the long-term. Scheme representatives don’t always know what to look for or what ...
Sign up for Simplitium's new webinar which will discuss the current state of catastrophe risk ...
Join ModEx at The RAA Cat Risk Management conference on the 13th to 15th of February in Florida. Simplitium's James Lay will be speaking during the 16.30 Breakout Session on the 13th about the Oasis Platform in Practice. If you would like to book a meeting with the ModEx team during conference, please contact James Lay on james.lay@cinnober.com. The 2017 Hurricane season ...
Join ModEx at the "5th Annual CAT Risk Management & Modelling Europe Summit" on the 7th to 8th of March in London. We will be demoing the ModEx platform so make sure you come and see us at Booth 2. Cat Risk Consultant, Matt Jones and ModEx's Commercial Director, James Lay, will also take part in an interactive roundtable session at 11:50am on the 7th (Roundtable B). The ...
We are very pleased to announce that our cat risk modelling platform, ModEx, has been announced as a finalist for the 2017 InsuranceERM awards in the category: Best cat risk modelling solution. The InsuranceERM awards seek to recognise the very best in risk management, actuarial and risk modelling practices, as well as the landmark deals and leading service providers, in the ...
On the 4th of October 2017, Simplitium hosted its 10 year anniversary party and announced its new ...
December 14th, 2017 | Richard Dixon As the 2017 hurricane season comes to a close we can obviously ...
Service provider, Simplitium, continues to expand cat modelling platform with the addition of risk ...
Bujar Bivolaku, Head of Regulation and Market Structure Strategy at Simplitium, will be speaking on a panel at the ‘FOW Derivatives World London: The Debates 2017’ conference. The panel is titled "State of the market: reasons to be cheerful about 2018?". Bujar will be speaking alongside Neil Treloar, Director for Strategy and Business Development for Tradition, the interdealer ...
Hosted by Bujar Bivolaku, Simplitium's Head of Regulation and Market Structures Strategy, this webinar is designed to educate firms on their transparency obligation under MiFID II and the impact this will have on Trading Venues. The webinar aims to bring clarity to the pre and post-trade reporting obligations that Trading Venues will be subject to once MiFID II comes into ...
Transparency provider, Simplitium, has launched new initiative to explore enhanced transparency services for the pensions industry Simplitium™, financial services transparency specialist, has successfully delivered reporting solutions to the finance industry for over a decade, significantly improving the transparency of OTC trading and helping firms meet their MiFID II ...
The new service, which is called FacilitEx™, helps MTFs and OTFs meet their MiFID II transparency ...
Clients who use TRADEcho’s Smart Report Router (SRR) can now report trades to the Cboe Europe Equities (formerly known as Bats Europe) APA TRADEcho is the real-time MiFID II pre and post-trade reporting service delivered through a partnership between the London Stock Exchange Group and Simplitium (formerly known as Boat Services). MiFID II introduces many challenges for buy ...
Model provision agreement solidifies relatonship between ARA and Simplitium. Applied Research Associates (ARA), the leader in first principles modelling of hurricane hazards and property losses, has joined forces with Simplitium and Oasis to offer a cost-effective solution for companies looking to better understand their U.S. hurricane risk. ARA and Simplitium have formalised ...
Transparency services provider undergoes rebrand to highlight expansion of services in existing and ...
Today (25 September 2017), Boat Services have announced a partnership agreement with KiteEdge to offer Apex, a next generation customisable search layer, to clients. KiteEdge provides asset managers with the tools to find, collaborate, and leverage content across complex, multi-asset, siloed organizations and helps firms meet their MiFID II regulatory/transparency ...
London Stock Exchange plc has today received regulatory approval from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to be authorised as an APA. The approval means that London Stock Exchange will be able to publish post-trade transparency reports on behalf of investment firms to help them meet their reporting obligations under MiFID II. The reporting will be provided through ...
Boat Services today announced the addition of Matt Jones and Bert Kerr as consultants to further develop the company’s fast growing catastrophe risk modelling business. Together they bring 30 years of industry expertise in (re)insurance catastrophe (cat) risk management to the Boat Oasis platform. Boat Oasis is the multi-peril cat risk modelling platform, delivered by Boat ...
Global catastrophe modelling firm JBA Risk Management has become the first flood modeller to integrate its probabilistic models onto the Boat Oasis platform – the catastrophe risk modelling shared service built on the Oasis Loss Modelling Framework The leading provider of flood modelling and analytics to the insurance and reinsurance industry has joined forces with Boat Oasis ...
Regulatory approval has been granted by UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) enabling the trade reporting service TRADEcho to enter the final phases of preparation for MiFID II. The TRADEcho service is provided in partnership between Cinnober’s subsidiary Boat Services Ltd and the London Stock Exchange Group. The approval to be authorized as an APA (approved publication ...
ModEx, a Multi-Peril Catastrophe (Cat) Risk Modelling Platform for the (re)insurance industry, brought to market by Simplitium in January 2017 has added new risk models, increasing customer attraction. In Q3, Simplitium formalized agreements with cat risk model provider COMBUS and portfolio analytics tool TigerEye, to integrate on the ModEx platform, with more integrations to ...
ULLINK, the global provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, today announced it has successfully certified its MiFID II Trade Reporting solution with TRADEcho, the Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) that provides comprehensive pre- and post-trade transparency services. Read more here.
Charles River Development has formalized a partnership agreement with TRADEcho to automate Trade reporting under MiFID II. Under the partnership, firms with the Charles River Investment Management Solution are able to use TRADEcho as an APA to report trades to the public and access TRADEcho’s unique Smart Report Router to determine trade reporting eligibility. Read more here.
Boat Services strengthens Cat Risk Modelling platform, with the integration of TigerEye, the industry leading pricing and portfolio management platform from Applied Insurance Technologies, a Subsidiary of TigerRisk Partners. On the 20th of July 2017, Boat Services announced the availability of TigerEye on Boat Oasis, the multi-peril cat risk modelling platform. Boat Oasis ...
Boat Oasis continues to strengthen platform with the addition of COMBUS’s catastrophe simulation models for Australia. The catastrophe modelling firm COMBUS is the first Australian modeller to offer their risk solutions on Boat Oasis – the multi-peril cat risk modelling platform operated on the Oasis Loss Modelling Framework (LMF). “COMBUS’s Australian Bushfire, Severe ...
On the 21st of June 2017, Boat Services, in partnership with Oasis and Equinix, held the first ...
Yesterday, the 6th of July 2017, the LMBA held its twenty-ninth Annual General Meeting. During the meeting, the chairman of the LBMA, Dr Paul Fisher, commented on the number of new initiatives that the LBMA introduced over the past year and those it will be involved with in the future. During his speech the chairman confirmed that “mandatory trade reporting has been moving ...
Lloyd's recent report on Seismic shock introduces a new model (available on Boat Oasis) to help fill the gap in earthquake modelling for the rapdily urbanising Middle East region. In 2017, almost a fifth of the population in the countries covered the report is at risk from earthquakes. For insurance to play its full potential in mitigating and transferring earthquake risk in ...
SIX Swiss Exchange has approved the London Stock Exchange’s TRADEcho service as a Trade Data Monitor (TDM) for the SIX Swiss Exchange. This agreement enables foreign participants (Remote Members) of the SIX Swiss Exchange to meet their reporting obligations for trades in Swiss securities admitted for trading on a Swiss regulated market via the TRADEcho platform. TRADEcho is a ...
Click through for a selection of photos from the Nordic Cat Modelling Conference on the 21st of ...
Almost one fifth of the population of the Middle East – approximately 30 million people – are now living in areas at risk of earthquakes, according to a new Oasis earthquake risk model released today by CATRisk Solutions and sponsored by Lloyd’s. The new risk tool uses a bespoke seismotectonic source model to give a more accurate assessment of earthquake risk in: Bahrain, ...
TRADEcho, the partnership between London Stock Exchange and Boat Services providing a one stop shop for MiFID II transparency services, saw a very positive increase in sales in Q1 and Q2. This recent sales momentum reaffirms TRADEcho’s position as a market leader for pre and post-trade transparency services for MiFID II. TRADEcho’s client list includes a broad range of clients ...
Global catastrophe modelling firm JBA Risk Management has become the first flood modeller to integrate its probabilistic models onto the Boat Oasis platform – the catastrophe risk modelling shared service built on the Oasis Loss Modelling Framework. The leading provider of flood modelling and analytics to the insurance and reinsurance industry has joined forces with Boat Oasis ...
Boat Services and London Stock Exchange’s TRADEcho service opens its innovative open access Smart Report Router (SRR) bringing choice to the market place. MiFID II brings many challenges to buy and sell-side investment firms, not least, the requirement to publish trades to the market as close to real time as possible. The Smart Report Router determines if and when the buy or ...
The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) announces today that Boat Services Ltd, in a joint submission with Autilla, has been selected as the chosen provider in the LBMA’s Request for Proposal (RfP) process. The aim of the RfP is to deliver new services to the precious metals market and in doing so improve transparency, efficiency and expand the technology requirements in ...
Carl Nilsen joins Boat Services to further develop the company’s fast growing RegTech business, focused on MiFID II transparency. With business gaining momentum and more clients continuously committing to the Pan-European MiFID II multi-asset trade reporting service TRADEcho, Boat have appointed Carl Nilsen, former Head of Equities at Oslo Bors, as Director of Sales. Carl ...
Per Lovén joins Boat Services to focus on the firm’s commercial strategy. Boat Services hires former Head of International Corporate Strategy at Liquidnet for the newly developed role of Commercial Director. Per Lovén has spent the last six years at Liquidnet as the Head of International Corporate Strategy where his focus was to create and deliver corporate strategies for ...
Simplitium, a fully owned subsidiary of leading exchange and clearing technology supplier Cinnober, has signed an agreement with Lloyd’s of London and ten managing agents to provide access to catastrophe models via the Oasis Loss Modelling Framework under a shared service arrangement. ModEx – the latest shared service specifically designed for the insurance industry Partnering ...
Lloyd’s and the Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA) have today announced a groundbreaking deal with US Hurricane model provider Applied Research Associates (ARA) to make available their Hurloss model to subscribing Lloyd’s managing agents on a shared services basis. A second project, the regional catastrophe Middle East Earthquake model has been developed. The models will be ...
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Boat Services Ltd today announce the launch of TRADEcho, the combination of the two companies’ existing and complimentary trade reporting services. By early Q1 2017, TRADEcho will offer customers a more efficient, single trade reporting venue and complement LSEG’s T+1 MiFID and EMIR transaction reporting services, offered through ...
Boat Services abseil for Bliss On Saturday 19th September, Boat Services Ltd participated in the Bliss Corporate Abseil Challenge in London. Boat colleagues’ nervously abseiled down the 550ft tall Broadgate Tower located in the city of London in an effort to raise money for Bliss, the premature and sick baby charity. “My legs were trembling, but it was a fantastic experience ...
Boat Services Ltd has confirmed they now support the post trade publication of Russian OTC trading, by including stocks listed on the Moscow Exchange (MOEX). Boat is the only exchange-independent trade data monitor (TDM), and the only one recognized by both the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and SIX Swiss Exchange. “We are pleased to partner with Boat and European brokers ...
Boat Oasis, in partnership with Oasis and Equinix, are pleased to announce the first Nordic Catastrophe Risk Modelling conference in Stockholm on 21 June In support of the Boat Oasis shared service platform (delivered by Cinnober’s UK subsidiary: Boat Services) this conference brings together industry leaders in the field of catastrophe risk assessment to discuss how ...
Cinnober, an independent supplier of multi-asset financial technology for market operators, clearing houses, banks and brokers, and Ancoa, providers of contextual surveillance and insightful analytics for exchanges, regulators, buy and sell-side firms, have entered into a strategic collaboration to provide market surveillance to the global banking sector. Under the global ...
Complexity of Europe’s new trading transparency regime addressed by new offering. Boat Services Ltd, independent OTC trade reporting service provider, has announced that it will apply for approved publication arrangement (APA) authorization under MiFID II. This means that Boat will offer publication services for all MiFID II instrument classes, including bonds, structured ...
Heads of Terms signed to create MiFID II compliant, multi-asset reporting platform Creates a one-stop-shop for MiFID II transaction reporting service Boat Services Ltd and London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) today announced the signing of Heads of Terms to build a MiFID II compliant trade reporting service. The new service will offer customers a single, multi-asset, ...
In what is seen as a major endorsement for Cinnober’s new management of Boat, the company announces today that all Boat customers have now confirmed their future commitment to the service. Cinnober’s new Boat division will continue to provide the only independent European trade reporting service, following the acquisition from Markit by Cinnober Financial Technology on 1st ...
Boat has announced the implementation of Market Model Typology (MMT) in its OTC trade reporting platform. This will further contribute to improved data quality and granularity aligned with market standards. The new release adopts the full MMT standards for OTC cash equity trade reporting, providing a standardized way of sharing post-trade data. The model is available for ...
Cinnober Financial Technology today announced the acquisition of Markit Trade Reporting (“Boat”) from Markit with Cinnober taking full control of Boat’s European trade reporting service as of July 1st. Earlier this year, Markit announced plans to discontinue the trade reporting service. However, with significant market demand for an independent trade reporting service and an ...