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...
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...
Euroclear’s de Pauw Talks up Corporate Actions Standards, T2S’ Ongoing Impact
International central securities depository (ICSD) Euroclear has been spending a lot of time recently consulting with its user groups about market best practices and standards and how it can improve its servicing of the corporate actions space, according to Edwin de Pauw, director of product management at the ICSD and CSD. This is only natural...
Fidelity ActionsXchange Captures Corporate Actions Faster/Closer to Source
Fidelity ActionsXchange, a Fidelity Investments company and leading provider of global corporate actions and related security events, today introduced an enhanced version of its ActionService platform, which automates and customizes the delivery of corporate actions, such as stock splits and corporate restructurings, on more than 2.5 million securities to some of the world’s largest financial...
Information Mosaic’s O’Donnell Talks up ING’s Deployment of IMConnecting
Information Mosaic used this year’s Sibos as the platform to launch its new IMConnecting solution, which purports to provide a next gen interface to the post-trade environment for front office users and clients with its handheld device compatibility. Custody bank ING is the first to implement the solution in beta form and will install it...
Data Infrastructure and Corporate Actions Sibos Panels Highlight Barriers to Standardisation, Appetite for Regulatory Compulsion
The numerous challenges standing in the way of establishing industry wide data infrastructures such as data repositories for the OTC markets and achieving greater standardisation of the corporate actions space were elaborated upon by a number of speakers at this year’s Sibos. The challenge of standardising this data on a firm wide level is multiplied...
Strategic Acquisitions, Cost Cutting and Corporate Actions Top the Bill at Sibos
Last week’s annual Swift user conference in Amsterdam saw the messaging network operator focus on a range of items central to its new 2015 strategy (see our video interview with Swift’s managing director for the UK, Ireland and the Nordics Arun Aggarwal on the subject earlier this year), including cost saving opportunities, strategic acquisitions of...
Adam Brill Joins XSP as Business Analyst
XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions solutions, announced today that Adam Brill has joined the Company as Business Analyst. Based in New York, Brill will be responsible for supporting the growing client base for the XSP® Corporate Actions software platform. This appointment is in response to XSP’s expanding Professional Services offering and...
DataArt Announces its Role in Completing Development for XSP
DataArt, a high-end software development company headquartered in New York with R&D centers in Eastern Europe today announced it has completed enhancements for XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions software. The XSP v5 platform is the state-of-the-art solution from XSP developed to automate each step in the processing of global Corporate Actions....
DTCC and SWIFT Launch ISO 20022 Corporate Actions Messaging Pilot Program
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,500 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, announced today that Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) has agreed to participate in a new ISO 20022 corporate actions messaging pilot program. The pilot program being run by DTCC will...