Asset Control Upgrades Clients To New Version of TAPMaster
Asset Control has unveiled the third full feature release of TAPMaster, introducing fundamental new functions and offering increased performance, scalability and the security capabilities of the latest Microsoft technology. TAPMaster, which recently came into the fold of Asset Control’s offerings following its acquisition of TAP Solutions (Reference Data Review, April 2007), is an end-to-end Microsoft...
Eagle Lands Legacy Replacement Deal at Boutique Firm Trilogy
US-based Trilogy Global Advisors, a boutique emerging markets equities fund manager, is implementing technology from Eagle Investment Systems to help manage its portfolio. The Eagle suite of products will enable Trilogy to retire its legacy accounting system. According to John Lehner, president of Eagle Investment Systems, there are a couple of reasons for Trilogy’s decision...
EDM Council Takes Baby Steps Towards Ontology and Metrics
The EDM Council has recently taken steps towards achieving two key requirements for industry-wide implementation of enterprise data management – a standardised data ontology and data quality metrics. Members of the EDM Council are participating in a working group formed by the DTCC to define and standardise the data terms and definitions included in its...
Reuters Enterprise Data Likely to Be Reference Data Force Post-Merger
Thomson Corp.’s agreed acquisition of Reuters, which remains subject to regulatory approvals, would essentially ‘reverse’ Reuters into Thomson Financial, creating a financial information business larger than current market leader Bloomberg (Market Data Insight, May 2007). Following the proposed merger – which envisages Reuters CEO Tom Glocer taking the helm of the overall Thomson-Reuters corporation and...
SmartCo Integrates Telekurs’ SmartCo Integrates Telekurs’
SmartCo, a French software house, and Telekurs Financial have integrated Telekurs’ Valordata Feed (VDF) data flow into SmartCo’s Smart Financial Data Hub. Smart Financial Data Hub is designed to enable centralised data management, data quality control, access authorisation, real-time data analysis and the management of multi-contributor functionality. “We are always interested in interfacing our data...
Netik, Thomson Ally to Take On Single Vendor Accounting/Data Players
Financial data warehouse provider Netik and Thomson Financial have teamed to integrate Thomson Portia and Netik InterView, in order to provide investment managers with what the partners say is a best of breed solution for investment accounting, data management and reporting. According to the two vendors, while firms have historically been limited to a single...
Thomson, Reuters Boards Agree to Combination Transaction
The boards of Thomson and Reuters have agreed to combine the two groups, and intend to recommend the transaction to their shareholders. Woodbridge, the Thomson family holding company which controls some 70 per cent of Thomson, has irrevocably committed to vote in favour of the transaction, and the Reuters Founders Share Company, which controls a...
Broadridge Teams with GoldenSource, IBM, Rounds on Managed Reference Data Space
Broadridge Financial Solutions is seeking to leverage its pedigree in the provision of ASP and business process outsourcing services with an entry into the managed reference data space. Its Global Reference Data Solution offers a fully managed service for capture, scrubbing, storage and distribution of reference data. GoldenSource software powers the service, and IBM –...
Swiss Re Asset Management Implements DSTi Data Platform
DST International’s (DSTi’s) Investment Data Platform on Oracle has been implemented at Swiss Re Asset Management (SRAM). Swiss Re has been a DSTi client for nine years. DSTi’s specialist asset management technology has been used to build an investment data hub to streamline the firm’s existing complex data architecture. The solution is comprised of a...
Eagle Joins Charles River Partner Integration Programme
Eagle Investment Systems has become a member of Charles River Development’s (CRD’s) partner integration certification program. The certification is based largely upon the development of standardized interfaces between the Charles River Investment Management System and Eagle PACE and Eagle STAR. The interface between the platforms provides a bi-directional flow of reference and accounting data and...