JPMorgan to Roll Out New Corporate Actions Reporting
JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services has completed a pilot of Announcement Capture, a new service which captures global corporate actions announcements from multiple sources and generates a “golden record” for client reporting purposes. Announcement Capture is part of JPMorgan’s global STP programme to standardise, consolidate and deliver timely, comprehensive and accurate corporate actions announcement information to...
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Improves Corporate Actions Risk Management Service
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has enhanced its Corporate Actions Online Services offering with the launch of a new global web-based notification and response system. The upgrade – available via BNY Mellon Asset Servicing’s web-based information delivery and transaction platform – is designed to give clients greater flexibility for managing corporate events, such as tender offers, conversions, mergers,...
Globalisation Makes Life Harder for Corporate Actions Processors, Sibos Panellists Say
Despite the efforts of industry groups and standardisers in recent years, the job of processing corporate actions is getting harder, not easier. Greater levels of international investment and the growing complexity of the products in which clients are investing are key reasons for this, suggested Justin Chapman, senior vice president at Northern Trust, during a...
CounterpartyLink Provides Legal Entity Data to Alacra, Joins Money Transfer Networks Association
Alacra, a provider of online business information solutions, has signed an alliance agreement with CounterpartyLink, supplier of global client, counterparty and issuer legal entity reference data. Through this alliance agreement, Alacra’s Concordance and Compliance customers will have access to CounterpartyLink’s full list of maintained reference data. This data is collected from sources, and maintained to...
Brandes Investment Partners Licenses XSP
Brandes Investment Partners, a global investment advisory firm with $125 billion in assets under management, has licensed the XSP solution for global corporate actions processing.
Quantifi Selected by III Associates for Valuations
Hedge fund manager III Associates has integrated the Quantifi Toolkit into its systems for end-of-day valuations of its structured credit portfolios. Quantifi Toolkit is a model library for structured credit pricing and risk analysis and contains a full suite of market tested and validated models. Coverage includes credit derivatives products and bespoke structures including: CDS,...
Natixis Bleichroeder Chooses Fidelity ActionsXchange for Global Corporate Actions
Natixis Bleichroeder, a New York-based investment bank specialising in the energy, commodities, healthcare and media sectors with offices across the US and affiliates in London and Paris, has signed an agreement for Fidelity ActionsXchange to serve as its global corporate action data partner. ActionsXchange will provide Natixis with cleansed domestic and international equity universe corporate...
Panic Abates as FSA Says Firms Won’t Have to Use Alternative Code
The UK Financial Services Authority has calmed market practitioners’ fears about the new Alternative Instrument Identifier (AII) for use in identifying some derivative instruments in MiFID transaction reports (Reference Data Review, September 2007) by clarifying that individual firms will not have to use the code for the time being. Rather, reporting entities will just have...
Vancouver-based OTC Val Enters Structured Products Pricing Space, Targets White-Labelling Deals
Firms seeking independent prices for OTC derivatives have a potential new partner in the shape of Vancouver-headquartered OTC Valuations Limited (OTC Val). Founded this year and comprising a team of people with backgrounds in mathematical modeling, valuation system implementation, training, proprietary trading support and spreadsheet consulting services in the OTC derivatives area, OTC Val has...
Channel Capital Advisors Opts for Quantifi XL
Quantifi, provider of analytics and risk management solutions to the global credit markets, has sealed a deal with Channel Capital Advisors, creator of Europe’s first Credit Derivative Product Company, for its tool for pricing and analysing structured credit products. “Quantifi’s proven track record and recognised market experience were important factors in our selection process. We...