AIM Acquisition of Joss Technology Adds Entity Data Application and US Presence
AIM Software’s acquisition of Joss Technology will add an entity data business application to AIM’s Gain data management platform, as well as US based employees and customers who will help to power the company’s ‘go west’ strategy. The terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, but once it is complete, Joss Technology will be...
A-Team Webinar Debates the Data Management Challenges of Pricing and Valuations
Portfolio pricing and instrument valuations are under the spotlight as an increasing number of regulations require pricing and valuations data, the need for data quality and accuracy tops the agenda, and transparency of pricing methodologies becomes central to price challenges. These issues and more were discussed this week during an A-Team Group webinar moderated by...
First Derivatives Plans Significant Investment in Kx Systems following Acquisition of Majority Shareholding
First Derivatives’ acquisition of a majority shareholding in Kx Systems gives the company ownership of the kdb+ technology stack, access to over 100 Kx customers and a business unit that is expected to be earnings enhancing in the current financial year. First Derivatives, a Newry-based provider of software and consulting services to the financial services...
Winners of the Data Management Summit Awards 2014 Revealed…
Some happy winners were on hand to collect their awards at our Data Management Summit in London yesterday in recognition of their hard work delivering robust data and data management solutions for the financial technology industry. The second annual awards were presented by our Chief Content Officer Andrew Delaney. Congratulations go to AIM Software, Alacra,...
CounterpartyLink Accelerates Entity Data Delivery with Datactics’ FlowDesigner
CounterpartyLink is accelerating provision of legal entity data to its customers through the integration of Datactics’ data quality and matching software with its workflows. Realising the need to increase the speed of entity data delivery and reduce manual data matching processes across its database of over 350,000 entities, CounterpartyLink contemplated building its own data matching...
CounterpartyLink Upgrades CPL Compliance Solution
CounterpartyLink has upgraded its CPL Compliance entity data solution with the addition of ultimate beneficial ownership information, more detail on Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) and the inclusion of Global Intermediary Identification Numbers (GIINs). The upgraded solution is designed to provide all the counterparty data required for compliance with Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations and is...
SunGard Expands XSP Corporate Actions Portfolio
SunGard has expanded the XSP corporate actions portfolio it acquired in January 2013 with a business process as a service (BPaaS) solution that provides access to cleansed corporate actions data and a cloud-based risk dashboard that visualises a firm’s corporate actions risk exposure. Both solutions can be used standalone or with the XSP corporate actions...
Global LEI Foundation Weighs the Options of Operating or Outsourcing Central LEI Database
The board of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) met last week to discuss the master agreement that will define legal relationships between Local Operating Units (LOUs) and the foundation, governance of the foundation, and funding. It also touched on the technology requirements of the Central Operating Unit (COU) of the Global LEI System...
AIM Software Wins Corporate Actions Client in the Netherlands
AIM Software has secured its fifth customer in the Netherlands, a large European asset manager that is using the company’s GAIN Corporate Actions DM application to automate the processing of corporate actions. AIM won the contract in a competitive selection process and was favoured on the basis of the application’s integration with SimCorp Dimension, the...
Bloomberg Promotes FIGI as Primary Global Security Identifier
Bloomberg plans to rename its Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID) as the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) with a view to making it the world’s primary standard for securities identification ahead of the International Securities Identification Number (ISIN). Bloomberg’s move follows last week’s release by the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) of an update to...