Netik Signs as Elite Index Data Partner with NASDAQ OMX
Netik, a global provider of financial data management and reporting services and products, today announces that it has been signed as an Elite Index Data Partner with NASDAQ OMX, the world’s largest exchange company and global leader in creating and licensing benchmark indexes. Netik offers the full suite of data for all NASDAQ OMX indexes...
Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund Now Live on Omgeo CTM and Omgeo ALERT
Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, today announced that Birla Sun Life Asset Management Company Ltd, one of India’s flagship mutual fund managers, is the first domestic fund manager in India to go live on Omgeo Central Trade Manager (Omgeo CTM) and Omgeo ALERT, for cross border post-trade processing and standing settlement and account...
ISITC Europe Meeting Highlights Data Standardisation Challenges Underlying Electronic Trade Confirmation
Last week’s ISITC Europe meeting indicated that before any action can be taken to move to higher levels of electronic trade confirmation across the industry, a number of data standardisation challenges must be tackled first. Swift’s Fabian Vandenreydt, who was promoted to the position of head of Securities and Treasury Markets earlier this year and...
UK FSA Reiterates its Commitment to Move from FRN IDs to the BIC for Transaction Reporting by End 2011
In its latest Market Watch newsletter the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) reiterates its intention to move from its proprietary FSA Reference Numbers (FRNs) to Swift’s Bank Identifier Codes (BICs) for entity identification purposes within transaction reports, as required under MiFID. In keeping with its discussions with the industry on the subject over the last...
Princeton Financial Systems Automates KID Creation for Financial Institutions
Princeton Financial Systems (PFS) today announced Switzerland based companies, Vontobel and Swisscanto recently joined a growing list of European institutions to use PFS’ solutions to support their Key Investor Information Documents (KID) creation process. PFS customers can organise and automate this process in accordance with current regulatory standards, which ranges from data provision to the...
Trasset International Enters into a Partnership Agreement with StatPro on Risk Management
StatPro Group plc, a provider of portfolio analysis and asset valuation services for the global asset management industry, today announces that Trasset International, an international software solution provider for banks and financial institutions has signed a partnership agreement to integrate the StatPro Risk Service into the Trasset banking platform. Trasset has operations in over 19...
Hana Daetoo Securities Deploys Pricing Partners’ Derivatives Pricing Solutions
Pricing Partners announced today that Hana Daetoo Securities has chosen Pricing Partners’ derivatives pricing solutions, Price-it Excel. Hana Daetoo Securities is the investment banking subsidiary of Hana Financial Group. The agreement was signed through its regional distribution partner Belatos. Hana Daetoo Securities will deploy Pricing Partners’ flagship derivatives pricing engine, Price-it Excel, for its trading...
SunGard Snaps up ValueLink Information Services, Morgan Discusses Long Term Integration into Asset Arena
Ever-acquisitive SunGard has snapped up yet another small vendor in its bid to get in on the data quality and validation solution investment action going on within the buy side. Doug Morgan, president of SunGard’s Institutional Asset Management business, explains the details of the ValueLink acquisition to Reference Data Review. Morgan indicates that the discussions between...
Swift’s Janssens on its Bid to be the OFR Supported Legal Entity ID Registration Authority
Swift may have backed away from pushing a reworked version of its Bank Identifier Code (BIC) as a legal entity identifier for the purposes of the US Office of Financial Research (OFR), but that does not mean it is out of the running as a standards issuer in the context of a global reference data...
Broadridge Financial Solutions CEO Calls for Nationwide Effort to Increase Individual Shareholder Voting
In remarks before the National Press Club this morning, the chief executive of the nation’s largest shareholder communications company called on all CEOs to encourage individual shareholders, including employee shareholders, to vote their proxies. “In 2010, just one in 20 individual retail investors voiced their opinions about the companies they invested in by exercising their...