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Reuters Targets Europe With New Evaluations Service

Reuters is targeting the evaluations pricing market in Europe, with the addition of European-issued debt securities evaluations to its DataScope reference data service. The service will be bring the vendor into a space currently dominated by FT Interactive Data, and increasingly focused on by Standard & Poor’s. As reported by Reference Data Review at the...

Xcitek Adds Interface to DTCC’s GCA Service…

Xcitek has extended its relationship with the DTCC to add support for its Global Corporate Action (GCA) Validation Service. Support will be offered in Xcitek’s latest version XSP 4.6 corporate actions management service. It has also partnered with Tap Solutions where Tap will build a feedhandler to load Xcitek’s corporate actions and municipal actions data...

Standard & Poor’s ‘Pushes’ Cusips to Clients

A new service from Standard & Poor’s will use push technology to deliver Cusip identifiers for competitive and negotiated municipal bond deals to fixed income and equity market participants every 15 minutes. With the New Issues On the Web (S&P Now) service, says Jim Taylor, managing director at S&P, “we are fundamentally changing the delivery...

Brewin Dophin Takes Telekurs’ ISO 15022 Corporate Actions Data

UK stockbroker Brewin Dolphin has signed up to take corporate actions data from Telekurs Financial. The data will be delivered on a daily basis in the ISO 15022 format.

Singapore Exchange Adopts Swift Network for Corporate Actions

The Singapore Exchange next month will begin distributing its corporate actions data over the Swift network using the ISO 15022 standard format. The exchange will use Swift for delivery of Singapore corporate actions, mostly dividends and payment announcements, but will add other corporate action data types such as rights issues later. The exchange joins the...

Tenfore Offers Historical Tick Data for Equities, Derivatives and FX

U.K.-based data feed provider Tenfore Systems has unveiled a new historical tick data service, provides intraday pricing for equities, derivatives and foreign exchange going back to the beginning of December 2003. Tenfore says the data is free of any judgemental cleansing and so closely represents the original source. Tenfore has sourced and stored data from...

U.K. Broker Williams de Broe to Use Mondas for Corporate Actions

Williams de Broe will use Mondas’ Radica CAPS corporate actions automation platform and its Election Management Portal under a five-year licensing, services and support deal valued at around £350,000. The U.K. stock broker’s decision followed a lengthy evaluations process involving several vendors. The deal makes Williams de Broe the second client to adopt the new...

Standard & Poor’s Signs Reciprocal Accord With CIBC World Markets for Bond Data

McGraw-Hill’s Standard & Poor’s Corp. has tapped CIBC World Markets as the source for bond evaluations in Canada. As part of the reciprocal arrangement, CIBC will add Standard & Poor’s bond evaluations to its own PriceBase market data platform. Standard & Poor’s says the move is in response to growing demand for comprehensive cross-border bond...

Sachsen Ireland to Use Telekurs iD, Pricing Data

Telekurs Financial has secured an extended deal with the Irish operation of German bank Sachsen LB Europe to provide pricing services and its display product. Sachsen will receive intraday and closing prices for the full portfolio universe of over 200 stock exchanges and 500 contributors. Its users will be able to access the pricing data,...

Markit Expands Reach of Credit Derivatives Data

Markit, with the weight of its 13 bank sponsors behind it, has been expanding rapidly – both its coverage of the credit markets driven by acquisitions, and its distribution through deals with data vendors and software providers. Its RED product – reference entity database – has recently been made available via risk management software provider...