Strong Hire for HelioGraph Corporate Actions Team
Straight through processing and messaging specialist HelioGraph has hired Simon Strong to its corporate actions team. He now has the post of eVent programme manager and is responsible for managing the development of the company’s eVent corporate actions product. Previously at TCA Consulting, Strong has worked in financial IT development and consultancy for over 15...
Fame Targets Asset Management with Digital Partnership
As part of Fame Information Services’ drive in the asset management client space, the firm has teamed up with U.K. company Digital Innovation Systems, which specialises in enterprise data repository designs. Both companies will market the Fame ReferencePoint for Asset Management, which is aimed at retail, institutional, and private client asset managers. According to Fame,...
Lending Data Mapped by iMonitor
Atlanta-based iLumen Inc. has released further details of its iMonitor automation system for customer lending data gathering and analysis. Currently in evaluation at several U.S. institutions, iMonitor will provide regular, up-to-date snapshots of lending operations and uses a proprietary data-mapping engine to standardize and map data input, conduct analysis and perform benchmarking. Full-scale rollout of...
COR Acquires STP Firm One-Ten
London-based COR Financial Solutions, a developer of banking, securities and asset management software, has acquired international STP software firm One-Ten as part of its acquisition-fuelled growth plan. One-Ten’s products include the Salerio e2e STP solution, which it says is used by 25 asset management and outsourcing firms including Capital International and Crédit Lyonnais Asset Management....
O’Dwyer Takes On UK Corporate Actions For SmartStream
SmartStream Technologies has appointed Jeremy O’Dwyer to head its UK Corporate Actions team in London, a newly created position to leverage SmartStream’s recent acquisition of Effective Solutions and to drive business development of its TLM corporate actions product. He brings more than 20 years of in-depth experience of the financial services marketplace from both the...
M&I Picks XCB For CA Processing
Marshall & Ilsley (M&I) Trust Company has signed a three-year licensing agreement for Xcitek’s CostBasis (XCB) software and will use it to process cost allocation factors and tax opinions on corporate actions. Mark Cashion, assistant vice president, M&I Trust Company, says the move to XCB has increased accuracy and timeliness of processing cost basis activity...
Institutions Gearing Up For The Switch To ISINs In German Market
Financial institutions in Germany are gearing up for the introduction of the International Securities Identification Number later this month, an event requiring preparation that has been compared with the scale of the euro’s introduction. Germany and Austria switch to ISIN on April 22, ahead of most other European countries. France and other countries linked to...
London Stock Exchange Unveils Draft Pricing For Enhanced SMF
The London Stock Exchange has published a draft licensing and pricing policy for its enhanced Sedol Masterfile (SMF) service, to be introduced next year. The new proposals provide for a one-off enterprise licence priced at £50,000 a year, which will be cost-effective for a firm with four or more subsidiaries using greater than 10,000 Sedol...
ValueLink Signs Another Dublin Client In Custom House
Dublin-based Custom House Administration and Corporate Services has signed to take validated data from UK provider Value Link Information Services. Custom House will be using ValueLink’s validated securities pricing and corporate action data within its administration services for over 160 alternative investment hedge funds. David Blair, managing director of Custom House, which bills itself as...
First American Picks XSP For Corporate Actions
California investment adviser First American Trust is to use Xcitek software to automate its corporate actions processing. The Xcitek Solutions Plus (XSP) ISO 15022-compliant global corporate actions automation solution developed by New York-based data company Xcitek and Solutions Plus will be used by First American to manage corporate actions processes and monitor exceptions by automating...