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ASX Upgrades Core Data Management Infrastructure with GoldenSource EDM
The ASX Group (ASX) has selected GoldenSource EDM to upgrade and replace its current corporate data management system known as CORE. The new platform will serve as the most comprehensive repository of historical data as well as the essential link for equity trading and settlement processes at ASX. With a centralized, trusted copy of company,...
Eagle Asset Management Ramps Up Institutional Sales Support
Eagle Asset Management, provider of equity and fixed-income investment strategies to institutional and individual investors, has hired Donald J. Pepin as Director of Institutional Sales. He will focus on strategic initiatives targeting domestic and international consultants as well as direct new business development. Pepin has nearly 30 years of industry experience in areas including institutional...
Thomson Reuters Grows Legal Entity Data Solution to Address Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance
Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of an expanded legal entity data solution, which will be available for retrieval via Thomson Reuters DataScope Select and Thomson Reuters DataScope Onsite. This offering significantly expands the firm’s legal entity content capability, which is approaching coverage of 1 million entities across nearly 250 markets and 50 languages. Thomson...
Legacy Asset Management Company (LAMCO) Goes Live With Calypso as Central Valuation Solution
Calypso Technology, a global application software provider of an integrated trading, risk and processing platform to financial institutions and corporate treasuries, announced today that Legacy Asset Management Company (LAMCO), a fully owned subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holding Inc., has gone into production with the Calypso system as its core derivatives platform for valuation and risk....
Markit Announces Roll of Markit CDX Indices
Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, today announced that its Markit CDX North America Investment Grade and Markit CDX Emerging Markets indices will roll into their next series on September 20 2011. Final membership lists are available here. The Markit CDX NA HY will roll on September 27 2011. A final membership list...
Burstream Rolls NanoSpeed Mesh – Sub-Microsecond Managed Data Service
Burstream – a new entrant to the market data space – has gone live with the first market on its NanoSpeed Mesh, a managed service leveraging FPGA-based technology from NovaSparks (see separate post here). The company is now delivering Nasdaq OMX data to customers co-located at the exchange’s Carteret, NJ data centre, typically in 600...
NovaSparks Cites Nanosecond Performance of FPGA Data Appliance
NovaSparks has released performance data for its FPGA-based data feed appliance based on the highly volatile market conditions in August, noting average latencies of 400 nanoseconds, and extreme cases of 900 nanoseconds. On test was NovaSparks’ Gen2 appliance, which is based entirely on FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) technology (i.e. unlike some competing products, no...
SmartStream Announces TLM Corporate Actions Event Management On Demand, Delivering Enhanced Event Automation as a Service
SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist, today announced the launch of a new service, TLM Corporate Actions Event Management On Demand, delivering enhanced event management through the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. TLM Corporate Actions Event Management On Demand delivers the proven event management capabilities of SmartStream’s TLM Corporate Actions solution as a...
Leading Global Custodian Banks Think Custodians Should Be More Involved In The Settlement And Account Instruction Process, According To New Survey
Despite a heightened focus on risk management and increased levels of automation within custodian banks worldwide, the settlement and account instruction (SI) process still relies heavily on manual processes, introducing risks and costs into the trade lifecycle, according to research by Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency. The survey, conducted by Omgeo in July...
Fitch Launches Global Fund Quality Ratings Powered by Lipper Data
Fitch Ratings today launches a new type of fund rating – Fund Quality Ratings – that combines Fitch’s expertise in qualitative fund analysis with rankings and performance data from Lipper, a Thomson Reuters company and leading provider of fund performance data. Fitch’s Fund Quality Ratings offer an independent, forward-looking assessment of a fund’s key performance...