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Swiss Bank Wegelin Implements Aim Software Interface for Telekurs Data

Swiss private bank Wegelin & Co has implemented Aim Software’s Gain|Apsys interface to improve the import of Telekurs data into the SunGard Apsys banking application. The bank, which has been using Gain Data Management since 2001, says the interface was needed to cope with increased market volume. Wegelin & Co has been using Aim’s platform...

eSecLending Picks Asset Control’s AC Plus to Support Securities Lending Automation

Full service securities lending agent eSecLending has selected Asset Control’s AC Plus financial and reference data management software with a view to supporting its efforts to increase automation in its securities lending programmes. According to the vendor, the solution was chosen following a rigorous search and selection process. AC Plus will therefore support the development...

European Fund Administration Upgrades to Aim Software’s Golden Copy

Luxembourg-based European Fund Administration (EFA) has decided to upgrade to Aim Software’s flagship Golden Copy solution with a view to optimising the processing of reference data from Telekurs and Bloomberg. EFA implemented the Gain platform in 2004 but it says that factors such as volume increases in data have forced it to upgrade to a...

Deutsche Postbank Picks Asset Control’s AC Plus

German bank Deutsche Postbank has selected Asset Control’s AC Plus financial and reference data management software to provide pricing data to the bank’s risk control department and support its internal value at risk (VaR) model for market risk. Phil Lynch, Asset Control’s president and CEO, says that the vendor has been speaking to the bank...

BPO Provider B-Source Partners with Aim Software for Data Platform

Following the certification of the Avaloq|Gain adapter earlier this month, Aim Software has entered into a partnership with business process outsourcing (BPO) and IT operations outsourcing (ITO) service provider B?Source. Under the agreement, clients of B?Source will be provided with a central reference data management platform based on Aim Software’s Gain Golden Copy. B?Source, which...

Ness Technologies Releases Details of New Version of Data Management Platform

Ness Technologies released the plans for the launch of a new version of its enterprise reference data management platform, Ness Financial Data Enterprise, at this year’s FIMA Asia conference in Singapore in September. The new version of the platform features interfaces to Telekurs Financial’s Valordata Feed (VDF), IBM Tivoli scheduler and a common enterprise application...

Hermes Fund Managers Picks Cadis EDM, Cadis Targets Hedge Fund Community

Hermes Fund Managers has implemented the Cadis EDM Suite as its central data management platform across all of its operations. The fund manager selected the platform as part of the revamp of its operating model and chose Cadis in particular due to its fast implementation time, according to Philip Keeler, head of operations & IT...

RZB Selects Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Data Management

Austrian bank Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB) has selected Thomson Reuters’ Enterprise Platform for data management across the RZB Group. The bank is currently engaged in establishing a new market risk infrastructure, which it hopes will provide it with the ability to hedge its portfolios more effectively, enabling substantial savings in hedging costs. The bank engaged in...

KBC Group Selects Ness Technologies for Consolidated Data Management

Brussels headquartered KBC Group has selected Ness Technologies’ Financial Data Enterprise solution to provide an end to end consolidated data management platform. According to the vendor, the deal is a multi-year agreement and involves a combination of Ness’ proprietary software and services. Sudhakar Kondisetty, chief business officer of Ness’ Financial Services, Ness Technologies, says: “Generally,...

Siperian and Evaxyx Partner for Faster Implementation Framework

Master data management (MDM) platform developer Siperian and data integration consulting firm Evaxyx have signed a strategic partnership in order to speed up the implementation process of Siperian’s MDM Hub. To this end, Evaxyx has developed the Evaxyx Siperian Services Framework (ESSF), which is based on a set of industry best practices. According to both...