HSBC Live on Broadridge’s SWIFT MX Proxy Voting Message Service
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. today announced that HSBC is the first live operational user of the new SWIFT MX Proxy Voting Messaging Suite using Broadridge’s global proxy processing solution. The SWIFT messages, based on the latest ISO 20022 messaging standard, are a new generation of SWIFT-based communications designed to increase processing efficiency throughout the proxy...
SmartStream’s New Recruit Stewart on DClear’s Performance Thus Far: Metrics and Multi-Tenant Architecture
In his new role as sales director for SmartStream’s DClear business, ex-GoldenSource exec Hugh Stewart has been tasked with raising the profile of the reference data utility solution, as it extends its reach into areas such as corporate actions, standing settlement instructions and legal entity data. As revealed by Reference Data Review back in November, the vendor...
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Unveils Top 10 Corporate Actions of 2010
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services has released its annual Top 10 Corporate Actions, a list of the most challenging corporate actions from the past year. The tax and legal experts at Capital Changes, a part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services that provides corporate action reporting, tax information and analysis, compile the annual listing to alert taxpayers...
thewealthworks Chooses SIX Telekurs’ Ddata for their Troika Software
thewealthworks have chosen SIX Telekurs as a data source to compliment their Troika system, a wealth management software solution for family offices, financial institutions and private client service providers. SIX Telekurs is supplying pricing and corporate actions data via its leading market data services IPS (Intraday Pricing Service) and VDF (Valordata Feed). Troika is a...
SWIFT Strengthens Global Securities Business with New Senior Appointments
SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,500 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, announced today that Fabian Vandenreydt has been named head of Securities and Treasury Markets. He will report to Gottfried Leibbrandt, head of marketing. In his new role, Fabian will work closely with Chris Church, global head of Securities at...
Euroclear Bank to Offer Post-trade Services for Brazilian Securities
Euroclear Bank announces today the launch on 31 January of settlement, custody and related post-trade services for all Brazilian equities and domestic fixed-income securities. Transactions in these securities will be sent to Euroclear Bank’s local agent for processing in one of the three Brazilian central securities depositories (CSDs). The three CSDs are Câmara de Custódia...
DTCC Publishes Updated ISO 20022 Specifications for Corporate Actions Processing
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today published updated drafts of new ISO 20022 corporate action announcement specifications, which will be used in a pilot test with custodian banks, broker-dealers and other corporate actions users beginning this April. While the pilot of the DTCC system using ISO 20022 announcement messages will involve a limited...
Bertin Departs Swift for Pastures New, De Boe to Take Over Asset Servicing Responsibilities
After two years as Swift’s global head of Asset Servicing and Custodians, Sophie Bertin Hadjiveltcheva is departing for pastures new. Michèle De Boe, who is currently senior market manager for Funds at Swift, will take over Bertin’s Asset Servicing responsibilities following her departure. Since November 2008, Bertin has headed the Asset Servicing and Custodian groups...
FinDataPortal Enhances its Services with the Feed Manager Capability
FinDataPortal, a financial data portal with a new approach to data provision, announced today the release of its Feed Manager feature, enabling subscribers to create their own customised feed. FinDataPortal (FDP) is a platform through which clients can access datasets from different financial data providers in a way that is tailored to their specific needs....
T2S Meeting Highlights Ongoing Corporate Actions and Shareholder Transparency Concerns
Last month’s Target2-Securities (T2S) meeting at the European Central Bank (ECB) highlighted the progress that has been made by the Corporate Actions Sub-group (CASG) and the Shareholders Transparency Sub-group in attempting to sort out the data standardisation challenges in their respective areas of connecting to the pan-European settlement system, which is due to be launched...