… As EDI Teams with Financial Information Inc.
Exchange Data International has teamed up with New Jersey-based Financial Information Inc. to offer Financial International Data Services, which integrates EDI’s international corporate actions data into Financial Information’s FII Online web-based query system, offering global coverage of corporate actions and transfer services.
Aozora Adds Counterparty Data To GoldenSource Implementation
Aozora Bank of Japan has added GoldenSource’s Counterparty Solution to the broad data management platform it is currently implementing across all of its operations. The Japanese bank last year selected GoldenSource’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Suite to provide the technology infrastructure for a centralized and cleansed repository for all types of reference data, including customer,...
IDC’s Strategic Deal with Markit Provides Cooperative Framework
This month’s data redistribution deal between Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data and Markit Group belies a more strategic alliance, than at first it appears. The agreement gives FT Interactive Data clients access to the models Markit uses for its bond valuations as well as use of Markit’s own credit default swap, credit index and...
State Street, SSISearch to Offer Standard Access to SSI Data
State Street Corp.’s State Street Global Markets trading arm has teamed up with SSISearch to offer a so-called open industry standard for standard settlement instructions and other settlement information. The move brings State Street and SSISearch into the currently underserved area of standard settlement instructions, which has seen several industry initiatives take flight, but none...
NRW, Bankgesellschaft Berlin Adopt Actis. BSP’s ProDB Platform
NRW.Bank, the largest of Germany’s regional development banks in terms of assets, and Bankgesellschaft Berlin, a regional corporate bank, have gone live with BSP ProDB from Actis.BSP, a German provider of core banking and capital markets systems. Both banks will use the BSP platform to handle securities descriptive data and corporate actions information. BSP ProDB...
Mergent’s BondViewer Offers Evaluated Pricing for U.S. Fixed Income
New York-based Mergent Inc., a subsidiary of Xinhua Finance, has released BondViewer, an on-demand web-based system for accessing the company’s database of U.S. taxable and municipal bonds, retail notes, U.S. agency issues and Treasury notes. Features include previous-day evaluated pricing for each bond provided by Mergent’s independent end-of-day evaluation service, and performance tracking. Terms and...
Columba, Telekurs Team Up To Supply CA Data to LCH.Clearnet
LCH.Clearnet has implemented a corporate actions data platform using a consolidated source of international corporate actions content from Telekurs Financial combined with Columba’s web-based, knowledge management platform. This customizable platform allows Telekurs Financial’s data and LCH.Clearnet’s in-house future events data to be aggregated, manipulated and distributed internally.
CheckFree Adds EDI CA Data Feed; Automates ISO 20022 Data Dictionaries
CheckFree Corp.’s CheckFree eVent corporate actions automation platform has created an interface to the ISO 15022-compliant corporate actions data feed from Exchange Data International (EDI). EDI’s corporate actions data is already integrated into a number of vendor systems, including, most recently, Mergent’s EventsData.com and BvDEP’s Osiris. Meanwhile, CheckFree is automating the way Message Broker, the...
J.P. Morgan Securities Upgrades CA System
J.P. Morgan Securities has gone live with the latest release of Xcitek’s XSP corporate actions automation and processing system. J.P. Morgan Securities has been using XSP for five years now and says the new version will be used to expand its use of ISO functionality, eliminating the need for manual diary entries. The firm will...
Markit Launches Valuations Service for Inflation Derivatives
Mark-to-market pricing and asset valuations group Markit has launched a valuations service for inflation derivatives covering UK, US, French and European zero coupon swaps. The service, part of Markit’s Totem Service aimed at sell-side risk managers and product controllers, provides independent verification of mark-to-market prices for UK RPI (Retail Price Index), U.S. CPI (Consumer Price...