U.K. Asset Manager Insight Set to Go Live with Citadel’s Data Management Platform
U.K. asset management firm Insight Investment is about to go live with a reference data management infrastructure from Citadel Associates. The implementation will make Citadel’s Cadis the data management infrastructure underpinning Insight’s growing derivatives operations. Insight – formed through a merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and the subsequent acquisition of Rothschild Asset Management...
Cusip License Fee Battle Rages On
The batting to and fro between the International Standards Organization (ISO), the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) and the Cusip Service Bureau operated by McGraw-Hill’s Standard & Poor’s Corp. continues unabated. The latest barrage comes from ANNA members, who collectively condemned charging for ISIN-based securities identification databases, in what appears to be another thinly...
Bureau van Dijk Picks EDI for Corporate Actions Data
Dutch electronic publisher Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (BvDEP) has selected Exchange Data International to supply corporate actions data for the latest version of its Osiris company database. The deal brings EDI’s Worldwide Corporate Actions (WCA) feed to a new audience of front-office corporate finance users; its traditional marketplace is in the back-office corporate finance...
EDI Expands Middle Eastern Coverage of WCA, Dividend Feeds
Exchange Data International (EDI) has expanded the Middle Eastern coverage of its Worldwide Corporate Actions (WCA) and Worldwide Dividends feeds. The new service includes additional Arabic language translation capabilities as well as data from three additional Middle East stock exchanges and local data providers. Exchange information from the Algerian, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
ADP Brokerage Services Teams with Xcitek for Corporate Actions
ADP’s Brokerage Services Group (BSG) has launched an automated corporate actions processing system based on XcitekSolutionsPlus’s XSP platform. The new system is part of BPS’s back-office processing offering, and features a data-scrubbing engine for exception-handling. The engine compares announcement data from multiple sources and identifies exceptions, publishing them to BPS and offering managers an overall...
Nicholas-Applegate Opts for XSP Platform
Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management has licensed XcitekSolutionsPlus’s XSP platform for corporate actions processing, its corporate actions data, its Swift messaging functionality and the Electronic Tracking Response and Notifications system for notification and response capture. “After evaluating the software vendors in the marketplace,” Christopher P. Siriani, director of operations at Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management, “we found that XcitekSolutionsPlus...
Accenture MRDS to Complement Corporate Actions, Market Data
Accenture’s plans to roll out a Managed Reference Data Service (MRDS), based aroundon Asset Control’s Acdex outsourced data management offering (Reference Data Review, June 2004), is one of several data management initiatives under way at the big consulting firm. MRDS, for which Accenture has been distributing a white paper discussion document, sits alongside similar ventures...
Quest for Unified Entity Identifiers Gathers Pace as Plans Go to WG8
In the quest for a unified method of identifying international business and legal entities, industry protagonists are pushing forward discussions. Progress has been made by the RDUG/Redac community who have proposed a number of recommend-ations to ISO’s Working Group 8. A group of industry practitioners also gathered at a CityCompass event to discuss various options...
Soliton Links to Counterparty Data From CreditDimensions
Reference data management firm Soliton is adding links from its instrument data to legal entity data, through a new partnership with CreditDimensions. The two firms are launching the (as yet unnamed) joint product at this month’s Securties Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference at the New York Hilton, which will provide clients with a consolidated...
BNP Paribas Securities to Use City Networks for Exceptions
BNP Paribas Securities has rolled out City Networks’ CityNet Investigation workflow management system, aimed at automating exceptions generated by the reconciliation process. Through the implementation, BNP is seeking to reduce its institutional clients’ operational risk among other benefits.