Edgar Online Announces New Chief Operations Officer
Edgar Online announced today that Diana Bourke will be joining the company. Bourke will assume the title of chief operations officer and will join the company full time on 5 April 2010. Prior to joining Edgar Online, Bourke was most recently president and chief executive officer of Inveshare, formerly known as Swingvote. Inveshare delivers shareholder...
Fortune 100 Financial Services Company Selects XSP v5 Corporate Actions Platform
XSP, a provider of corporate actions software, announced today that a leading investment manager, a Fortune 100 financial services company, has selected the XSP v5 platform to automate its corporate actions processing. With headquarters in New York, the client will implement most of the XSP processing modules including Data Management & Scrubbing, Notifications & Responses,...
Maples Finance Adopts Paladyne’s Industry-Standard Technology Platform
Paladyne Systems, a solutions provider to the global hedge fund industry, today announced that Maples Finance, an independent global fund services provider with US$30 billion in assets under administration, has successfully implemented the Paladyne product suite as its middle and back office solution. Maples Finance licensed Paladyne’s Application Service Provider (ASP) platform, a comprehensive software,...
Broadridge Upgrades UK Nominations and Voting Service
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced that, following the success of the launch of its UK Nominations & Voting Service in 2007, Broadridge has added new features to the service to further enhance its offering to retail brokers. The UK Nominations and Voting Service was created by Broadridge in response to changes put in place by...
CetrelSecurities Announces Today its First Customer in Asia
CetrelSecurities, a specialist in providing ASP services to financial institutions with more than 20 active clients using the service announced today that it has acquired its first customer in Singapore. Being a regulated company controlled by the Luxembourg Financial Markets Authority, CetrelSecurities, a subsidiary of the Luxembourg based Cetrel, focuses on the provision of outsourced...
Fiserv Loses Harries to DST Global Solutions, Mulkeen Also Out the Door, But What of its eVent Business?
Following a rather disappointing end of year quarter for its financial segment and a dearth of wins for its corporate actions solution eVent over the last 12 months, it seems Fiserv has suffered yet another blow this month with the departure of two of its key staff members: former vice president of its Investment Services...
GBST’s O’Brien Discusses ITG Win, Broker Approach to Corporate Actions Processing and Asian Progress
Following its move into the corporate actions space in November last year, GBST has bagged its first client in the form of agency brokerage and financial technology provider Investment Technology Group (ITG) and has a number of promising prospects in the Asian region poised to sign on the dotted line, says Donal O’Brien, who manages...
Fidelity ActionsXchange’s Pollard Talks up Win with Knight Clearing Services and Plans for 2010
Corporate actions data cleansing solution provider Fidelity ActionsXchange has bagged its first customer of the year with the signing of Knight Capital Group’s clearing subsidiary Knight Clearing Services. Laura Pollard, executive vice president and head of Fidelity ActionsXchange, explains that the vendor has been working with Knight, which is focused on the trade execution and...
XSP Expands London Office to Accommodate Continued Growth and Ongoing Investment in Corporate Actions Innovation
XSP, a provider of corporate actions software, announced today that it has moved to larger office space in London to support its growing staff and global client base. The new space – which is located at the same address, 68 King William Street – more than doubles the size of its previous office. Neil Sheppard,...
SEC Gets on the Soapbox About XBRL and Corporate Actions, Again
Since its decision to mandate the XBRL tagging of financial reports for US firms, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been doing its level best to keep the industry apprised of any possible compliance challenges. To this end, this month, the regulator announced yet another event, in the form of a public seminar on...