Benchmarking Reference Data Highlighted at Azdex Event
Azdex has risen to prominence in the past year or so, given its activities in the hot space of business entity data. The vendor is in the process of securing financial backing from the Deutsche Borse, and recently held a well-attended event in London focused on ‘benchmarking business entity reference data quality’. The event featured...
ING Funds Picks FTID Fair Value Service
ING Funds has chosen to use FT Interactive Data’s Fair Value Information Service to support the funds’ fair valuation procedures for equities held in their international portfolios. FT Interactive Data’s Fair Value Information Service is designed to assist mutual funds, which must value foreign securities after their local market close (when market events may influence...
IBEI Suppliers Tout Their Wares At London Gathering
A number of suppliers of business entity identifiers got together to tout their wares to a small assembled crowd of practitioner firms in London earlier this month under the ISITC banner. Although there is an ISO process underway for a naming convention related to International Business Entity Identifiers (IBEI), this is a slow process and...
Standard & Poor’s Releases Crosswalk Web; Ratings IQuery
Standard & Poor’s is making its Crosswalk product – a joint venture with Dun & Bradstreet and Telekurs Financial – available via the web. Crosswalk, backed by sizeable players in the business entity identifier space, identifies the link between securities, issuers and their corporate entity hierarchy. Meanwhile, the company has also launched Ratings IQuery for...
JPMorgan Automates CAs for Clients to Access Via the Web
In order to better meet regulatory requirements, JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services is automating its corporate actions information for its institutional investor clients by offering web-based access to the data and eliminating the distribution of thousands of paper documents annually. It will provide web access to shareholder communications related to corporate events for U.S. and Canadian...
Hansard Signs Up for ValueLink
Hansard Administrative Services has signed up for ValueLink’s Pricing, Corporate Action, and Dividend services. Hansard will be leveraging ValueLink’s collection of 1,300 daily closing prices from hedge funds manually collected from websites and calls to fund managers.
IBEI and the Ten-Year Rush Towards Implementation By Gary Wright MSI, CityCompass Research
The planned International Business Entity Identifier (IBEI) – a unique identification system for investing and trading parties in the securities market – has been a long-standing objective since Swift allowed non-banking entities onto their network and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) lost control of central market trading. It’s not that long ago that to execute...
Asset Control Secures Standard Chartered, Standard Bank for PriceMaster
Asset Control has secured two new clients for its AC PriceMaster for market risk data. The service was rolled out at Standard Chartered in six months. It is used to generate risk factors and curves, as well as standardizing and consolidating market data, sourced from multiple vendors and internal sources to support risk management functions,...
…While Subsidiary CounterpartyLink Signs Up Capco As Early Distributor
Cicada’s new CounterpartyLink subsidiary (Reference Data Review, February 2005) is beginning to establish itself among other service providers, signing up Capco Reference Data Services as a distributor for the issuer, client, counterparty and hierarchy data service. As well as becoming a distributor, CRDS, which offers outsourced business process and technology services, intends to incorporate the...
Banque de Luxembourg Automates CAs with Vermeg
Vermeg has signed up a third client in Luxembourg for its Megacor corporate actions service. Banque de Luxembourg chose Megacor to fully automate its corporate actions processing to enable STP, after reviewing five other providers. The live data is scheduled for completion in September.