XSP’s Fullam Appointed Co-chair of ISITC Corporate Actions Working Group
Paul Fullam, principal consultant at XSP, has been appointed as a co-chair of the ISITC Corporate Actions Working Group. In this position he will collaborate with the group’s members to review ISO 15022 standards and direct enhancements to message content that promote the straight-through processing of corporate actions. Fullam has been an active participant of...
Interactive Data Launches Class Actions Service Option Mapped to the ISO 15022 Format
Interactive Data has launched its class actions service mapped to the ISO 15022 format as an optional module of FTS, Interactive Data’s securities administration tool. The service is part of the vendor’s Pricing and Reference Data business and is designed to help institutions track, monitor and recover funds resulting from securities class action litigation. The...
Interactive Data Launches Class Actions Service in ISO 15022 Format
Interactive Data has launched its class actions service mapped to the ISO 15022 format as an optional module of FTS, Interactive Data’s securities administration tool. The service is part of the vendor’s Pricing and Reference Data business and is designed to help institutions track, monitor and recover funds resulting from securities class action litigation The...
XSP Achieves Gold Status in Microsoft Partner Program
XSP has achieved gold certified partner status, the highest level of competence, in Microsoft’s Partner Program. The corporate actions vendor became a Microsoft certified partner at the end of September last year and has now progressed to gold status. The vendor achieved Microsoft gold certified partner status as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), attaining the...
XSP Offers Interactive Data’s Intra-Day Corporate Actions Data Through Software Platform
Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data’s intra-day corporate actions data is now available through XSP’s software platform. The service covers more than 40 corporate actions event types, including mergers, tender offers, exchanges and rights offerings for US and Canadian listed/traded securities. Interactive Data’s Xcitek Corporate Actions Service, formerly part of the same company as XSP...
NYSE Euronext’s Liffe to Expand Use of Markit Dividend Forecasts in Pricing, Clearing Services
NYSE Euronext’s Liffe derivatives exchange is to broaden the range of consensus dividend forecasts from Markit it uses in its indicative options pricing model and in Bclear, its trade confirmation, administration and clearing service for wholesale equity derivatives. Liffe will expand the population of Markit dividend forecasts to cover predicted dividend amounts and due dates...
EDI Adds Unit Trust Dividends to UK Dividend Service
Exchange Data International (EDI), provider of reference and corporate actions data, has integrated Unit Trust dividend information into its UK Dividend feed. Available as an additional set of the UK Dividend feed or on its own, the Unit Trust Dividend feed gives access to information like Group 1 and Group 2 distributions and equalisation rates...
EDI Adds Structured Products to Corporate Actions Database
Exchange Data International (EDI), a specialist in the aggregation of reference and corporate actions data, has integrated structured products into its corporate actions database and Security Reference File services. Thus far EDI has integrated the following instruments into its database: Close Ended Funds, Investment/Income Trusts or Listed Investment Companies, Exchange Traded Funds, Principal Protected Notes,...
B.I.S.S. Creates New Corporate Actions Systems Awards
B.I.S.S. Research, which provides benchmarking of services and systems in the financial services sector, has launched four new awards for the best corporate actions systems for broker/dealers, asset managers, custodians and overall sector winner. The awards will run in parallel to the existing B.I.S.S. Accreditation process for corporate actions systems. Gary Wright, CEO, B.I.S.S. Research,...
Exchange Data International Adds Structured Products to Worldwide Corporate Action Service
Exchange Data International (EDI), specialist in the aggregation of reference and corporate actions data, has integrated structured products into its Worldwide Corporate Actions database. This is the latest addition made by EDI to its services since electing to go head to head with London Stock Exchange by sourcing its own corporate actions data. Jonathan Bloch,...