Mergent Offers Unified Access To Corporate Actions, Bonds Data
Mergent, now owned by China’s Xinhua Finance, has introduced two new products EventsData and BondSource. EventsData provides unified web-based access to a combination of global corporate actions data across Mergent’s multiple databases. The corporate actions covered include mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, securities listings and delistings, EPS updates, liquidations, stock splits and reverse stock splits, spin-offs,...
Abbey Extends Use of Asset Control for Telekurs’ Corporate Actions
Abbey Financial Markets has extended its use of Asset Control’s data management platform to manage corporate actions data. Abbey chose to source its corporate actions data, alongside pricing and reference data, from Telekurs Financial’s Valordata Feed (VDF). This feed was integrated into the Asset Control platform at Abbey using AC Plus’s existing feedhandler for VDF....
Information Mosaic Sources ISO 15022 Corporate Actions
Telekurs Financial is the first vendor to make its ISO 15022 corporate actions feed available within Information Mosaic’s corporate actions product Cama. Information Mosaic is taking the feed via Telekurs Financial’s VDFS internet/FTP access site to its Valordata Feed (VDF). The feed provides intraday, end-of-day, and ad hoc corporate actions data.
Markit Signs Up Spanish Grupo BBVA
Markit has secured Spanish Grupo BBVA as a client for its Markit Red database of reference entity names and codes for credit default swaps. Juan Fernandez Blasco, head of trading at Grupo BBVA, says, “The need for precise reference entity data in the CDS market led us to sign a contract with Red… It will...
Mark Your Calendars: CityCompass, RDUG Corporate Actions Briefing
CityCompass is hosting a briefing on March 3rd, supported by Reference Data Review, to debate the issues raised in RDUG’s Interim White Paper from its Corporate Actions Working Group. The white paper summarises the work carried out to date within the practitioner and vendor/supplier communities and the event aims to discuss the issues and the...
Counterparty Link Raises the Bar For Counterparty, Entity Data
The launch a few weeks ago of a new company and eponymous data product, CounterpartyLink, signifies the growing demand for counterparty and legal entity data, fuelled by increasingly stringent regulatory requirements. To date, the main source of legal entity data has been Dun & Bradstreet’s Duns numbers, and more recently the joint Crosswalk initiative it...
The World According to RDUG
Corporate Actions has rightfully been in the limelight of late. The RDUG Corporate Actions Working Group has just released an Interim White Paper with the assistance of both practitioners and suppliers which examines the benefits of automation and presents a breakthrough in mapping electronic document templates upstream to ISO 15022 messaging downstream, comments Dr Anthony...
Automatic instrument opening from Avaloq for Bank Sarasin & Co.
The data management platform of AIM Software, the GAIN DataDesktop, was the key for Swiss private bankers Bank Sarasin & Co. to enable the automation of opening instruments directly in their Avaloq banking application, writes AIM Software.Bank Sarasin & Co., a Basel-based private bank with a strong international focus, has been using the data management...
FT Interactive Data Reports Growth of Fair Value Information Service
FT Interactive Data, subsidiary of Interactive Data Corp., reports that it now has 108 mutual fund and mutual fund processing clients subscribing to its Fair Value Information Service, compared with 34 firms subscribing this time last year. The Fiar Value Information Service provides a tool to assist U.S. mutual fund companies in meeting their legal...
Baseline Capital Expands Mortgage Data for Basel II Credit Risk
Baseline Capital has expanded its data pool of mortgage data, which it is using to build models required for an Advanced-IRB approach to Basel II credit risk. The additional data comes from eight U.K. mortgage lenders that have agreed to contribute their data.