EDI Adds Shareholder Circulars, Says “No Fall-Out” From Decision to Compete Head-On with LSE
Reference and corporate actions data provider Exchange Data International (EDI) has fulfilled a commitment made earlier this year to offer online access to shareholder circulars (Reference Data Review, March 2007). An enhancement to its direct sourced UK corporate actions database WinCAB2, the web-based service enables more timely, easier and cheaper access to these documents, which...
Invesco Selects Quantifi for Investment Grade Structured Credit Business…
Invesco Worldwide Fixed Income has selected Quantifi XL for its Investment Grade structured credit business. Quantifi XL is a suite of add-in functions for Excel which includes a substitution analysis tool that allows CDO managers to evaluate the economic impact of collateral trades. Rohan Douglas, founder and CEO of Quantifi, comments: “We are delighted that...
Xignite, Telekurs Forge Corporate Actions Data Distribution Deal
Xignite, provider of financial web services for mission-critical corporate applications, has formed a partnership with Telekurs Financial to provide reciprocal services integrating Xignite’s financial web services with Telekurs Valordata Feed (VDF). The partnership with Xignite will enhance the accuracy of its existing XigniteMaster and web service by using Telekurs VDF’s master data and corporate actions...
Reuters Adds Hourly Corporate Actions Data to DataScope Select
Reuters has added an enhancement to Reuters DataScope Select which will see its corporate actions data updated hourly, rather than once a day. Users will be able to monitor portfolios more actively by choosing how often they receive updates and paying according to the quantity of data they use. Reuters clients will now be able...
Harvard Management Licenses XSP v5 Corporate Actions Software
Harvard Management Company (HMC) has licensed the XSP v5 corporate actions platform. HMC has also licensed XSP’s web-based eTRAN (Electronic Tracking Response and Notifications) and Swift ISO messaging modules for the notification and response capture of elections processing. The XSP v5 platform is built around a service-oriented architecture (SOA), utilising Microsoft .Net components and web...
Interactive Data Steps Up Focus on Asia to Meet Pent-Up Demand, Pricing, Reference Data Key
Interactive Data Corporation is stepping up its focus on Asia and a key element of what it is offering in the region and for which it says Asian demand is growing are its pricing and reference data capabilities. Interactive Data’s approach in Asia “is not at the division or product level”, according to Roger Sargeant,...
Reuters Adds OTC Equity Options Prices to DataScope Select
In its third quarterly release this year of its hosted data management and extraction platform DataScope Select, Reuters has incorporated what it says are significant enhancements to the solution in the areas of OTC equity options pricing and counterparty data. The evaluated pricing services within Reuters DataScope Select have been extended with the provision of...
Interactive Data Leverages Xcitek Acquisition to Offer Intraday Corporate Actions Data
Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data business has introduced in North America a new service for delivery of corporate actions information to clients throughout the day. The service leverages Interactive Data’s acquisition of Xcitek earlier this year (Reference Data Review, April 2007); intraday delivery of corporate actions data was already on the Xcitek product...
Telekurs Adds Zacks Earnings Estimates to Reference, Market Data Products
Telekurs Financial now features new analysis and fundamental data from supplier Zacks Investment Research. Data from this information provider has been integrated into Telekurs Financial’s market and reference data products. Telekurs Financial’s products will carry quarterly and annual earnings estimates for around 4500 companies domiciled in the US and Canada, provided by Zacks Investment. Zacks...
PolarLake, CounterpartyLink Forge Alliance as PolarLake Adds Business Analyst Integration
Provider of reference data distribution products PolarLake and client and legal entity data specialist CounterpartyLink have entered into an alliance with the aim of better meeting the needs of mutual clients and prospects. John Randles, CEO of PolarLake, says while the PolarLake RDD (Reference Data Distribution) product “works with all forms of reference data”, the...