Xcitek Introduces Cost Basis Calculator for Institutions’ Clients
Xcitek has introduced a new Xcitek Client Cost Basis product to ease the process of clients finding out cost basis information. The client requests for this information from their brokers and advisors can be a heavy burden, particularly during the tax season, according to Xcitek. In an effort to ease this burden, the vendor has...
Information Mosaic’s Cama Gains Corporate Actions SwiftReady Label
Information Mosaic’s Cama application has been awarded the Corporate Actions SwiftReady label by Swift. Cama is the vendor’s end-to-end ISO 15022-compliant corporate actions automation solution. To achieve the SwiftReady label, the product must prove its ability to handle the correct business flows for the ISO 15022 Corporate Action messages and to adhere to Global Market...
Mark-it Partners Rebrands Acquired Businesses Under ‘Markit’ Banner
Mark-it Partners, provider of a daily pricing service for global credit derivatives, cash credit instruments, and syndicated loans, has rebranded to become Markit. The rebranding will be adopted by all products and follows the integration of several acquisitions over the course of the year. LoanX becomes Markit Loans; Totem becomes Markit Valuations; DaDD becomes Markit...
… While Asset Control Adds CB.Net SSIs; S&P Ratings
Asset Control has added new content sets in deals with CB.Net and Standard & Poors. It follows Omicronn and ACE (Reference Data Review, November 2004) in integrating CB.Net’s BankSearchPlus international payments directory into its AC Plus data management system. Ken Payne, director of sales and marketing at Asset Control, says, “Our customers have expressed strong...
DTCC Aims to Automate Corporate Actions Liability Notifications
The U.S. Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched a pilot programme with 20 broker/dealers and custodian banks for a new web-based system that automates the creation, delivery and tracking of corporate actions liability notices. The snappily titled Smart/Track for Corporate Actions Liability Notification Service will be in a pilot phase until the end...
Sydbank Buys SmartStream Corporate Actions Software
Denmark’s fourth largest bank Sydbank has licensed SmartStream Technologies corporate actions processing software TLMR to automate its corporate actions processing. The solution will be implemented by Sydbank’s outsourced IT services provider Bankdata by mid-2005. TLMR automates front-to-back processing of mandatory and voluntary events, providing data capture from multiple sources, cleansing, processing and accounting services. Egon...
…As Industry Protagonists Debate Issues
Industry participants last month debated issues surrounding standardization of corporate actions data at an STP event in London. The debate focused on how to get issuers to adopt the ISO 15022 standard format for corporate actions messages. Among the participants were representatives of Swift, the London Stock Exchange and RDUG.
RDUG Plans Corporate Actions Standards…
The corporate actions working group of the Reference Data User Group (RDUG) is planning to outline a set of standards for issuers of corporate actions events. The group is planning a year-end release of a white paper focusing on interpretation risk, where parties are forced to interpret the details of an event for processing, and...
Vermeg Secures Luxembourg’s Fideuram for Corporate Actions
Vermeg revealed its Megacor corporate actions solution is being used at Luxembourg-based Fideuram Bank. The service is being used to support Fideuram Bank’s new function as a global sub-custodian for another depository bank, an activity it began in early 2004. It uses Megacor to capture and produce ISO 15022-formatted corporate actions messages. This is the...
Tokyo Stock Exchange Joins Others Delivering CA Data via Swiftnet
The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) is joining the London Stock Exchange and Johannesburg Stock Exchange in making its corporate actions data available via Swiftnet. Its Tokyo Market Information (TMI) service was launched in ISO 15022 format in 2001 and is used as a primary source of Japanese corporate actions data.