CheckFree eVent Adds FT Interactive Data’s ISO 15022 Corporate Actions
CheckFree Corp. has developed an ISO 15022-compliant interface to FT Interactive Data’s corporate actions data feed for its eVent corporate actions processing platform. As a result, eVent clients will be able to receive, process and share corporate actions data without the need to convert to and from proprietary formats.
Can Corporate Actions Automate Without Wave of Regulatory Stick?
Despite a myriad of available software solutions aimed at automating corporate actions processing, industry participants can relish the prospect of unreliable data and manually intensive processing for some time to come. That’s among the findings of new research from TowerGroup that suggests that corporate actions processing remains one of the major roadblocks standing in the...
FT Interactive Data Adds Pricing to Temenos T24
Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data has agreed to make its pricing, evaluations, corporate actions and reference data available via banking systems provider Temenos’s T24 system. As part of the arrangement T24 clients will also be able to access FT Interactive European Union Savings Directive (EUSD) data, which is fully integrated with the Temenos EU...
AIM’s Gain to Carry EDI Reference, Pricing Data
Exchange Data International (EDI) has made its reference, pricing and corporate actions data available via Aim Software’s Gain reference data management platform. Gain already integrates data from such sources as Reuters DataScope, Telekurs Valoren Data Feed (VDF) and FT Interactive Data.
CheckFree Sets ISO 15022 Interface to Fidelity ActionsXchange
CheckFree Corp. has introduced an ISO 15022-compliant interface to the Fidelity ActionsXchange corporate actions data feed from its CheckFree eVent corporate actions processing platform. CheckFree eVent allows customers to receive, validate and process corporate actions, from announcement through entitlement calculation to notification and instruction processing. The ActionsXchange ActionService data feed integrates data from multiple commercial...
Cantor Fitzgerald and German-Based Asset Manager Opt for Xcitek XSP
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe and an unnamed German-based asset manager have selected XSP from Xcitek to automate their corporate actions processing. XSP will be implemented within Cantor Fitzgerald’s wholesale brokerage services group, BGC Partners. Meanwhile, the German-based asset manager has licensed both eTRAN and the ISO 15022-compliant messaging module for the automated notification and response capture...
Working Group Aims for U.K. Compliance with Corporate Actions Standards
A new U.K. Market Implementation Group (UKMIG) is aiming to harmonise U.K. national rules and practices relating to corporate actions processing, including distributions, shareholder rights and company reorganisations. The group, jointly chaired by the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) and CrestCo, is aiming to implement measures to remove Barrier 3, as set by the 2003 report...
Goldensource Integrates CDS Corporate Actions into Platform
Goldensource has teamed up with the CDS, a subsidiary of The Canadian Depository for Securities, to integrate CDS’s corporate actions and entitlements data into the GoldenSource Securities & Products software. For Goldensource, the deal extends its offering to financial institutions with Canadian operations or interests, while offering the CDS another route to market. The corporate...
Exchange Data International Joins Mondas’ List of Approved Feeds
Mondas has added corporate actions data from Exchange Data International (EDI), which is now on their list of ‘proven ISO 15022’ data providers. The data is now available via Mondas’ flagship Radica CAPS corporate actions software solution. The interface will allow Mondas clients to automate the capture of global corporate actions through the Radica CAPS.
Bear Stearns Taps Fidelity For Corporate Actions Data
Bear Stearns has signed a two-year agreement for access to Fidelity ActionsXchange’s corporate actions data and processing solution. The big U.S. investment bank will implement the Fidelity service in support of its global equities and fixed-income operations. Boston-based Fidelity ActionsXchange, a subsidiary of Fidelity Capital, will provide Bear Stearns with access to its proprietary platform...