FT Interactive Data Keen to Put SEC Pricing Slap Behind It
Financial Times Interactive Data (FT Interactive Data) will be anxious to dispel any industry disquiet caused by its settlement this month with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). FT Interactive Data was named in the SEC’s civil fraud action against mutual fund company Heartland Advisers, allegedly for allowing Heartland to influence FT Interactive Data’s...
Telekurs, Soliton Team Up to Release Time Square VDF Interface
Swiss reference data vendor Telekurs has teamed up with Soliton to introduce an interface between its Valordata Feed (VDF) and Soliton’s Time Square data management system. VDF is being added to Soliton’s library of Vendor Data Acquisition Workflows, allowing firms to manage reference data workflow, from acquisition to distribution, through an automated process.
London Stock Exchange to Use Telekurs Data for Sedol Expansion
The London Stock Exchange has signed up to receive international securities data from Telekurs Financial in support of the exchange’s impending expansion of its Sedol security identifier set. The deal aims to close gaps in the exchange’s coverage as it brings the newly expanded Sedol to market next month, in the first step in establishing...
Mark-It Partners to Acquire LoanX Credit Price Supplier
U.K.-based Mark-It Partners, a provider of credit pricing information, plans to acquire LoanX, a U.S. supplier of syndicated loan data. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Mark-It says it plans to integrate LoanX’s data offerings with its own to create a multi-asset offering, including market valuations on corporate bonds, credit default swaps and syndicated...
Xcitek’s Winning Spell Continues with U.S. Bancorp Deal
Continuing its run of contract wins, Xcitek has sealed an agreement with U.S. Bancorp, which will use the XcitekSolutionsPlus (XSP) corporate actions processing platform. The multi-year agreement also covers U.S. Bancorp’s use of eTRAN, Xcitek’s web-based module for automated notifications, and access to Xcitek’s corporate actions data. U.S. Bancorp, parent of U.S. Bank, is the...
Checkfree Acquires Heliograph, Boosting Corporate Actions Capability
Checkfree Corp., a financial data management company based in Atlanta, has acquired Heliograph, a London-based financial messaging and corporate actions processing company. Checkfree will pay $18.3 million for all Heliograph shares outstanding. Heliograph, which has annual revenues of around $8 million, will be merged into Checkfree’s Financial and Compliance Solutions (CFCS) unit, part of its...
Reuters Renews Deal with S&P Securities Evaluations
Reuters has extended its long-standing deal with Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations. S&P will continue to redistribute 1.9 million Reuters/EJV taxable fixed income valuations, alongside fixed income evaluations and global pricing from other sources, including third-party services. According to Todd McGhee, of Reuters enterprise information products group, the S&P relationship predates Reuters’ ownership of EJV,...
Iverson Upgrades GIM Index Data Service
Iverson Financial Systems has added an index family indicator and a total return index value field to its Global Index Monitor (GIM) index data service. The index family indicator is a parent index of index categories, which can help with mapping of indices internally. The total return index value field provides a measure of the...
Telekurs Unveils New Corporate Actions Delivery Platform
Telekurs used the Swift SIBOS event in Singapore last month to debut its new ISO 15022-format MT564 corporate actions delivery platform. The new platform, developed in conjunction with Swift, will carry the same range of structure, coded basic data and corporate actions already available via the Telekurs Valordata Feed (VDF). Pilot operations using the new...
CB.Net Forges Alliance with LogicScope for SSI Accuracy
CB.Net, a London-based provider of bank payments descriptive data, has teamed up with U.K. messaging software provider LogicScope to create an up-to-the-minute database of standard settlement instructions (SSIs). The venture will build on CB.Net’s comprehensive BankSearchPlus payments directory, which was launched at Swift’s Sibos conference in Singapore last month. CB.Net and Logicscope have created a...