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Advent Extends Alliance with Thomson Reuters to Advent Portfolio Exchange Clients

Following its announcement of the signing of an agreement with Advent last month, Thomson Reuters has extended the agreement to cover the buy side software vendor’s Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX) solution. Under the terms of the new agreement, the data vendor will link the portfolio management solution with its global pricing and security reference data...

TCS Upgrades Corporate Actions Offering, Bags Three New Customers for Solution

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has upgraded the platform underlying all of its capital markets solutions including its corporate actions offering: TCS B?NCS for Corporate Actions. Devesh Gupta, principal consultant for the vendor’s corporate actions solutions, tells Reference Data Review the details of the version five upgrade and its three recent client wins. The main focus...

Interactive Data and Goal Offer Global Service to Support Clients Throughout Securities Class Actions Lifecycle

Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business has formed an alliance with Goal Group Limited, a UK-based global class actions service specialist, to provide a comprehensive, outsourced class actions service designed to support investors and corporations throughout the entire lifecycle...

Swift on Course for Cost Cutting, Corporate Actions is Big Focus This Year

The first day of Swift’s Sibos conference included a press conference during which CEO Lazaro Campos elaborated on the cooperative’s plans to drastically cut its cost base and the opening plenary, which included many references to Swift’s recent successes in the corporate actions space. Delegates to the event in Hong Kong therefore got the lowdown...

Fiserv Breaks Corporate Actions Silence with Upgrade to eVent Solution

After a fairly quiet year so far from the Fiserv corporate actions team, Sibos saw the launch of a newly enhanced version of its eVent corporate actions automation solution. The upgrade is aimed at improving the flexibility of election and instruction processing and the notifications process with more customisable options, explains Geoff Harries, vice president...

EDI Adds Dividend Data to FinDataPortal, But Who is Using the Service?

Following its launch last year, FinDataPortal (FDP) has added Exchange Data International’s (EDI) worldwide dividend data to its solution offering. EDI’s data feed will allow FDP to provide its users with in-depth coverage of cash and stock dividends across approximately 110 countries, says Jonathan Bloch, CEO and founder of EDI. The company, which was launched...

Brown Brothers Harriman Announces Successful Release of Action World 2.0

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) announced today the successful launch of its ActionWorld 2.0 release for its existing web-based, real-time corporate actions notification, response and payment platform. The upgraded solution well positions BBH’s clients to address growing complexity and challenges surrounding securities and cash management related to corporate actions. Building on BBH’s current ActionWorld...

XSP Partners with Decillion Group to Provide XSP v5 Corporate Actions Platform as a Service Solution for Asia Pacific

XSP has partnered with Decillion Group, a banking software solutions provider, to provide a service-based offering of the XSP v5 Corporate Actions platform to the Asian and Australian markets. Through this agreement, Decillion Group will market and support the XSP v5 software in a software as a service (SaaS) environment to help clients in the...

XSP Increases Performance in XSP v5 Corporate Actions Platform by Up to 8,500%

XSP, a leading global provider of Corporate Actions software, announced today new benchmark performance figures for its already-powerful XSP v5 Corporate Actions platform with gains as high as 8,500% in its Data Management & Scrubbing module; over 2,500% in its Notifications component and a 3,200% increase in processing lottery events. These statistics further demonstrate the...

SmartStream Launches New Version of TLM Corporate Actions, Adds Solution to Common Platform

Back office processing solution vendor SmartStream Technologies has upgraded its Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) Corporate Actions solution in order to realise cost savings and efficiencies by bringing it onto a common platform with the rest of its offerings. Paul Phillips, business development consultant at the vendor, explains to Reference Data Review that the upgrade has...