SmartStream’s McGill Elaborates on Risk and Integration Benefits of Misys Partnership
Following the signing of a partnership with investment management solution vendor ByAllAccounts last month, SmartStream has signed yet another partnership agreement, this time with risk and portfolio management solution vendor Misys. Alastair McGill, executive vice president of business development and alliances for SmartStream Technologies, explains that the vendors have been in discussions about the partnership...
Financial Service Firms Able to Significantly Improve Trade Lifecycle Management Through Partnership Between Misys and SmartStream
Misys, a global application software and services company, today announces that it has partnered with SmartStream Technologies to deliver improved risk control and greater efficiency across the entire trade transaction lifecycle. The partnership brings together two leading software providers to deliver a range of solutions that provide broad connectivity to market participants and exchanges, improve...
Vendors are Having to Prove Their Worth in Burgeoning Corporate Actions Market, Says SmartStream’s Phillips
Firms in the US and Europe are seriously scrutinising the vendor solutions in the corporate actions space because of the pressure they are coming under from a risk management and data volume perspective, says Paul Phillips, senior business development consultant at SmartStream Technologies. The vendor has recently commissioned A-Team Group to conduct research into the...
SunGard Adds New Corporate Actions Feed to MarketMap Market Data Solution
SunGard has expanded the market data content of MarketMap, its multi-asset market data, analysis and information services solution, with the addition of a new global corporate actions data feed from Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of back office securities and administrative data. According to EDI, the feed covers data for 78,000 equities, 4,100 depository...
SunGard Completes Year Long Integration of EDI’s Corporate Actions Data into MarketMap
Vendor giant SunGard has finally completed a year long integration project focused on expanding the content of its market data solution MarketMap to cover corporate actions data from Exchange Data International (EDI). Robert Jeanbart, global head of market data and information services for SunGard’s global trading business, explains to Reference Data Review that the integration was...
DTCC’s Childs and Thieke Discuss GCA VS Upgrade Milestones for 2010
Along with the barrage of other corporate actions vendor updates this week, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced that it has added data on scheduled payments on around 2.4 million bonds held by the Fed to its Global Corporate Action Validation Service (GCA VS). The corporate actions data cleansing vendor is also currently...
Automated Outsourcing Services Signs up to SIX Telekurs’ Pricing & Corporate Actions Services
Automated Outsourcing Services (AOS), a Johannesburg-based independent third party fund administration company, has signed an agreement to use SIX Telekurs’ Intraday Pricing Service (IPS) and Corporate Actions Reports Service (CARS) in order to price their clients’ instruments and to support the servicing of their client’s assets: a mixture of equity and forex positions. Director of...
Interactive Data Delivers Faster Corporate Actions
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced new enhancements to its global Corporate Actions Service. Interactive Data has introduced new technology and internal workflow to deliver comprehensive global corporate actions and related information throughout the day that can help firms with their trading strategies and more effectively...
SGX, DTCC Veteran Terry Gibson Joins Fiserv
Fiserv announced today that it has hired Singapore Exchange (SGX) post-trade executive, Terry Gibson, as global head of strategy for Investment Services. In this role, Gibson will lead the international business strategy and product development of the Fiserv institutional and managed account technology portfolio. As senior vice president and head of Product Management at SGX,...
DTCC Significantly Increases Securities Covered by Global Corporate Action Validation Service
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced today that it has significantly increased the number of securities in its coverage of corporate actions announced through its Global Corporate Action Validation Service (GCA VS). The GCA VS, a service of DTCC Solutions LLC, provides the largest centralised source of “scrubbed” corporate action announcement information for...