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ICMA Ltd Plans Data Products, Extension Of TRAX2 to More Instruments

Data products will be at the heart of a new raft of offerings being developed by ICMA Ltd, the market services division of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA). In an effort to more effectively utilise the data assets it has acquired through its provision of the TRAX trade matching and transaction reporting system for...

New PolarLake Apps Offer Insight Into Downstream Data Quality

Dublin-based integration vendor PolarLake is touting a suite of business intelligence applications it says are complementary to its reference data distribution application, PolarLake RDD (Reference Data Review, March 2007). According to the vendor’s CEO John Randles, these applications are designed “to give the business confidence in the integrity of data to downstream systems”. PolarLake’s Data...

Reuters Will Leverage RMDS Installed Base, Software Partners, to Secure Growth of New EDM Platform

Reuters has set some aggressive growth targets for the Reuters Enterprise Platform (REP) – launched officially at Sibos in Boston earlier this month, and envisaged as a complete enterprise data management solution. According to Gary Barr, its global head of EDM, one client is live already, and a second is expected to be live by the...

Interactive Data Restructures in a Bid to Meet Demand for Cross-Enterprise Data Solutions

Interactive Data’s recent restructuring is designed to enable it to “walk the talk” of its “one company” image, according to Ray D’Arcy, its president of sales and marketing, under whom the previously separate Pricing and Reference Data and Real-Time Services sales, client relationship management and client service organisations will now be unified. “Our company has...

Xenomorph Delivers Derivatives Data Management For SGSS Asset Servicing

Xenomorph, real-time analytics and data management solutions provider, has signed a five-year agreement with the asset servicing department at Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS), under which the latter will use Xenomorph’s TimeScape production data management system for its derivatives operations. SGSS’ asset servicing department will use TimeScape to create a single, consistent and centralised source...

London Stock Exchange Enters Reconciliation Game With UnaVista

The London Stock Exchange has launched UnaVista, a global data integration, validation, matching and reconciliation service, designed to help firms identify inconsistencies across any data type. The core of the service is a rules-based engine that enables data to be reconciled from any source and across any business function. UnaVista can be deployed in two...

Avox to Offer Collateral Monitoring Service

From September counterparty data specialist Avox began offering monitoring services for collateral used in open market operations in the Eurosystem. Assets eligible as collateral for Eurosystem monetary policy operations must fulfill certain criteria. A bank must avoid so called “close links”, meaning it must not submit as collateral any asset issued or guaranteed by itself...

Downstream Data Distribution a Rich Seam of Opportunity for Vendors, Aite Analyst Says

In its new report, Managing the Rapids of Downstream Data Connectivity, analyst Aite Group predicts spending on downstream connectivity around enterprise data management projects in Europe and the US will exceed $2.5 billion in 2008. The report also finds that EDM projects typically mature an average of three years before firms really start to tackle...

Broadridge and NewRiver Extend Agreement on Disclosure Doc E-Delivery

Broadridge Financial Solutions has extended its agreement with NewRiver to provide a database of disclosure documents to assist Broadridge in electronic delivery of regulatory documents to investors. For the past five years, Broadridge has worked with NewRiver and a select number of Broadridge clients for e-delivery of confirming and first-dollar prospectuses. NewRiver sources 23,000 disclosure...

EDM Evolves to Cover Workflow Orchestration, Study Finds

Enterprise data management (EDM) is entering a new phase, progressing from a goal of collating, cleansing and storing data, and evolving into a broader strategy encompassing workflow orchestration and subsequent distribution to downstream applications. This is one of the key findings in a new white paper produced by A-Team Group and sponsored by Reuters. The...