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StatPro Boosted By Software Deals Spanning Four Continents
StatPro Group, a provider of portfolio analysis and asset valuation services for the global investment management industry, today announced that it has signed new multi-year contracts with several customers in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia. The new customer contracts include a variety of StatPro products, including the StatPro Seven portfolio analytics platform and the...
Broadridge Introduces the First Mobile ProxyVote Platform
Proxy voting moves to the next generation of advanced technology with today’s announcement by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) that its ProxyVote.com platform will be available on mobile data devices such as smart phones and tablets in early 2011. The announcement and demonstration was made at Broadridge’s annual Investor Communications Conference, held today in New...
End of January Deadline for Responses to US Proposals for OFR Reporting of Counterparty IDs
The industry has just under two months to respond to the proposals regarding how firms will report data to the Office of Financial Research, including the standards that must be used for identifying counterparties. The statement of policy was published in the Federal Register at the end of last month for public comment and firms...
Missing a Trick?
The breakdown of the time spent on each area for discussion at yesterday’s MiFID Forum was indicative of the general press and industry attention that is being given to certain aspects of MiFID over others. The majority of the presentations focused on the front office and market data impacts of the directive’s revisions (with good...
CEBS’ FINREP Reporting Changes Include a Whole Host of New Data Requirements, Says FRSGlobal’s Neary
The Committee of European Banking Supervisors’ (CEBS) incoming financial reporting framework (FINREP) changes, which are due to be implemented by 31 December 2012, include a set of new data requirements resulting from the changes to the underlying reporting templates, according to Niamh Neary, Core expert at risk and regulatory compliance solution vendor FRSGlobal. CEBS has...
Ingres Expands Executive Management Team With New Hire In Sales
Ingres Corporation, innovators of Ingres VectorWise, a breakthrough analytic database, and leading providers of open source enterprise-grade database, today announced it has hired industry veteran and ex SAS executive, Geoff Sheppard, to strengthen its executive management team. Sheppard will serve as the Vice President of Sales for NEMEA and SEMEA, and will head up sales...
Consultancy Firm ISC Hires Data Solution Vendor Veteran Lumsden
Buy side focused consultancy firm Investment Solutions Consultants (ISC) has hired data vendor veteran Paul Lumsden as a management consultant. Lumsden most recently worked as head of product management for client communications solution provider Kurtosys Systems, which earlier this year launched a new EDM platform for the asset management community. Geoff Edwards, ISC managing partner,...
TFG Fund Services’ Toyer Elaborates on its Implementation of Xtrakter’s XREF; Jinks Discusses Xtrakter’s Ambitions
TFG Fund Services implementation of Xtrakter’s XREF service is all part of its strategy to concentrate on its core risk management and valuations business rather than be bogged down with in-house data sourcing and scrubbing, says Martin Toyer, CEO of the fund services firm. Previously, the firm had to dedicate in-house resources to source and...
Deutsche Bank’s Fletcher Discusses Technology Silo Reduction for Data Management
Deutsche Bank has recognised that a silo-based model for data management is not sustainable and is looking to develop more enterprise-wide focused technology, said Neil Fletcher, IT director for reference data at the bank. The increase in the volume of transactions has meant the production of more reference and market data, which has put pressure...
Northern Trust’s Skinner Elaborates on its Data Management Shared Services Centre Development
Northern Trust has been engaged in developing a shared service centre for reference data in order to support its individual business lines over the last year or so, Nick Skinner, vice president of global data management at the custodian bank, explained to delegates at this year’s FIMA. The greatest challenges, according to Skinner, have been...