SunGard AddVantage Adds Interface to FTID Security Master
SunGard’s AddVantage, an asset management, trust and accounting and securities processing solution, has added an interface to XML Market Information Query Response System from FT Interactive Data (FTID). The interface is designed to help mutual customers facilitate the set up of equity and fixed income security master information provided by FTID from within the AddVantage...
Capco Launches Global Equities Dividend Forecasting Service
Capco Reference Data Services has launched Global Dividend Forecasting (Global DivCast), a managed data solution that provides a consolidated source of dividend projection data for equities. Features include a forecast of cash flows for a specific security, cash flows calculated using historical and current dividends over a period of two to four years, up to...
StatPro to Resell Capco Reference Data Service’s Global Index Monitor
StatPro, a portfolio analystics solutions provider, is now a reseller of Capco Reference Data Service’s Global Index Monitor (GIM), a source of cleansed global index composition data provided in a single standardized file. GIM, acquired by Capco through its purchase of Iverson Financial, will be provided as part of StatPro’s Performance & Attribution (SPA) product,...
Information Mosaic Leads Scores In CityCompass Benchmarking
CityCompass held its third year of the B.I.S.S awards based on its benchmarking of corporate actions systems. Information Mosaic achieved the gold accreditation with the highest all round scores recorded over the past three years for its Cama corporate actions solution, and for the first time in all three industry sectors of broking, custody and...
FT Interactive Data Expands Fair Value to European Funds
FT Interactive Data is making its Fair Value Information Service, until now only available in the North American market, available to European domiciled funds. The company says that three clients are already using the service in Europe. The service provides users with information that can be used to estimate a price that would likely prevail...
Trust Company of Illinois To Track Class Actions
Trust Company of Illinois has selected Xcitek’s Class Actions (XCA) service to address the growing burden of tracking and potentially collecting from securities class actions. Doug Eyles, head of investments at Trust Company of Illinois, said, “After a brief trial period, we decided that XCA could help us to better track developments that might impact...
AIM Gets Into Corporate Actions
AIM Software has introduced a new module to manage corporate actions data within its GAIN data management platform. The Gain Corporate Actions Dairy System (CADS) will manage corporate actions data delivered in ISO 15022 or other formats. The data will be sourced from a variety of providers including Swift, Telekurs Financial, Reuters, FT Interactive Data,...
Reuters Targets Bond Evaluations, Enhancing Frequency, Coverage
Although long trailing its rival Bloomberg in the fixed income arena, Reuters is aiming to utilise its acquisitions – namely EJV and Telerate – to bolster its content offerings. Backed by significant investment, Reuters has been developing enhancements to its fixed income evaluations service resulting in the introduction of higher frequency in evaluated pricing updates,...
CounterpartyLink Introduces Full Product; Enters New Distribution Deal with GoldenSource
Following its soft launch in February CounterpartyLink has officially launched a full version of its data service. The official launch includes full functionality, replacing the previous sample data the company has relied upon. The vendor has also entered a new third-party distribution deal with enterprise data management company GoldenSource. This is part of its strategy to...
London Stock Exchange Enters Counterparty Service Pilot Tests
The London Stock Exchange is entering pilot testing of a new counterparty data matching and cleansing service, in a bid to further expand its reference data services. Though the Exchange has not yet officially announced the development as it aims to validate the space and its product first, Reference Data Review understands that it demonstrated...