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CUSIP Global Services Makes its CABRE Business Entity Database Freely Available to CUSIP Customers
CUSIP Global Services (CGS) today announced plans to make its CABRE business entity identifier database freely available to CUSIP customers, effective 1 December. The new standard code, known as a CABRE (CUSIP Avox Business Reference Entity identifier), was created through a strategic partnership between CGS and Avox Limited, a DTCC company. The CABRE database is...
Paladyne Releases Latest Version of its Reference Data Management Suite
Paladyne Systems, a provider of next generation investment management solutions, today announced the release of Paladyne Security Master 7.0 and Paladyne Price Master 7.0, the major components of Paladyne’s reference data management suite. This release introduces many new product features and extends many areas of existing functionality. Today, Paladyne’s reference data management products are used...
Avox and GoldTier Partner on Enhanced ‘Know Your Customer’ System
Avox, a supplier of legal entity data on financial entities globally, announced today that it has partnered with GoldTier, a compliance software provider, to create an enhanced system to help the financial industry comply with increasingly strict regulatory “Know Your Customer” (KYC) requirements. GoldTier is a leading provider to financial firms of software for onboarding...
PolarLake Announce World’s First Semantic Web-based Reference Data Management Platform
PolarLake has announced the availability of the world’s first reference data management platform based on semantic web technologies. The platform enables the acquisition, management and distribution of vendor and internally sourced reference data. Already being used by a number of tier 1 financial services firms, the platform enables, data loading 11x faster, queries 17x faster...
SmartStream Planning to Add Entity, Corporate Actions and Settlement Instruction Data to DClear in the Future
There may be some debate about SmartStream’s future ownership at the moment, but the vendor is not about to let that hold back the development plans for its reference data utility solution DClear, according to David Penney, executive vice president of strategy and product development at the vendor. SmartStream is currently working on adding more...
If You Can’t Explain the Benefits to the Business, You Probably Shouldn’t be Doing the Project, Says UBS’ Webster
The business benefits of investment in data management projects should be obvious in terms of improving efficiency and saving costs, said Ian Webster, global head of data management at UBS Asset Management to attendees at FIMA’s focus day in London. If there are no definitive practical benefits that can be explained to the business, then...
Panopticon Partners with GoldenSource to Extend Scope of Data Visualization for the Securities and Investment Management Industry
Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and time series data, today announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with GoldenSource, a data management provider for the securities and investment management industry, to provide a user-friendly reporting and data visualization layer to its data management systems. GoldenSource will...
Fidelity ActionsXchange Plans Subscription-based Solution, Notifications and Response Also on the Radar, Says Pollard
Fidelity ActionsXchange has recently upgraded its ActionService platform via the addition of an announcement offering to capture corporate actions data closer to the issuer source and this will act as the foundation for the development of the vendor’s planned subscription-based solution, says Laura Pollard, executive vice president and head of Fidelity ActionsXchange. The vendor is...
StatPro Appoints RiskMetrics Man as Sales Director
StatPro Group plc, a global provider of portfolio analysis and asset valuation services for investment professionals, has appointed Ruggero Frisina as European Sales Director. Commenting on the appointment, CEO of StatPro Group plc Justin Wheatley said: “With the launch of StatPro Seven this year and that of Revolution in 2011, we wanted to bolster our...
FRSGlobal Hires Founder of STB Systems and Makes Further Hires in Asia Pacific and Japan
FRSGlobal, part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, the industry-recognised leader in content-rich solutions for unified global regulatory reporting and risk management, today announced that it has appointed Michael Thomas as Head of Business Development and Operations for North Asia. FRSGlobal has also made a number of additional new hires in the region to boost its...