FT Interactive Data, Xcitek Complete Testing on ISO 15022 Data Feed
Further expanding their long-standing relationship, FT Interactive Data Europe and Xcitek have announced the completion of testing of FT Interactive Data’s latest ISO 15022-formatted corporate action files via Xcitek’s XSP. The testing, aimed at improving implementation cycles at customer sites, was undertaken by FT Interactive Data and Xcitek throughout January prior to the latest release...
Markit Credit Pricing and Reference Data Integrates with Charles River
Markit has teamed up with Charles River Development to integrate its credit pricing and reference entity data into the Charles River Investment Management System (IMS) for fixed income. Markit’s data will be consistently mapped and readily accessible throughout Charles River IMS for mutual customers. For Charles River’s clients, the deal will offer a “completely integrated...
Standard & Poor’s Launches Evaluations for Euro ABS/MBSs
Standard & Poor’s has unveiled a new bond evaluations pricing service catering to the European structured finance marketplace. The move is aimed at filling a gap in the marketplace, which is plagued by lack of transparency particularly for illiquid asset- and mortgage-backed securities. The move marks Standard & Poor’s entrance to the European bond evaluations...
CheckFree to Incorporate eVent Technology in New EPL System
CheckFree Corp. is to embed CheckFree eVent into its next-generation Enhanced Portfolio Lifecycle platform to aid corporate actions processing. CheckFree EPL is an advancement of its existing asset management system that will deliver a global multi-transaction/ multi-currency portfolio accounting solution. The inclusion of eVent will allow clients to automatically receive, validate and process corporate actions,...
Soliton Uses CPL Data to Add Credit Module to TimeSquare
Data management platform supplier Soliton Inc. has introduced a credit data management module for its TimeSquare system that combines credit risk ratings and issuer data with legal entity and counterparty data from CounterpartyLink (CPL). The new TimeSquare module rationalizes, stores and aggregates CounterpartyLink’s legal entity and counterparty data. The CPL data is then linked credit...
Thomson Financial’s Datafeed Now Available via ValueLink
Thomson Financial has signed an agreement with ValueLink to provide its Datafeed solutions as a primary source via ValueLink’s validated data service in Europe. As a result, ValueLink’s clients will now be able to commingle Thomson’s financial content with their own proprietary content and that of other third-party sources of data, which are integrated in...
FT Interactive Data, Xcitek Complete Testing of ISO 15022 Service
FT Interactive Data Europe has successfully completed testing of its latest ISO 15022-formatted corporate action files in partnership with Xcitek’s XSP. Testing of the available ISO 15022 event types was undertaken between FT Interactive and Xcitek throughout January prior to the latest release of FT Interactive Data’s ISO 15022 service, with the aim of enabling...
FT Interactive Data Adds Markit’s Swaps, CMS BondEdge’s Analytics
The strategic relationship between Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data unit and credit data specialist Markit has borne its first fruits. As expected (Reference Data Review, January 2006), FT Interactive Data has released a valuations service for credit default swaps that draws on Markit’s access to around 50 CDS dealers in the marketplace. The launch...
Markit Launches Synthetic CMBS Index with CDS IndexCo
CDS IndexCo consortium and Markit Group have launched CMBX, a synthetic index of U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) with an initial group of 14 market-making banks. Markit will serve as the central source of information about CMBX, and will utilize cashflows from Trepp. As with ABX, a home equity loan-linked index based on various asset-backed...
GoldenSource Scores Another Client Win With Securities, Positions Deal at OpHedge
Reference data platform provider GoldenSource Corp. has picked up another client, following a string of implementations and new contracts over the past several months. The new addition is fund operations and administration service provider OpHedge Investment Services, which has licensed the GoldenSource Securities & Products and GoldenSource Positions modules. OpHedge hopes the GoldenSource platform will...