Japan’s SPARX Group Live on GAIN, AIM Reports More POCs
Tokyo-based asset manager SPARX Group has implemented the GAIN data management platform from Austria’s AIM Software in a project lasting just 10 days. GAIN is handling Asian equities data from Bloomberg and data from the local Japanese Toyo Keizai feed, and ultimately SPARX may deploy GAIN as a centralised data hub across its operations. According...
AIM Adds EDI, Reuters DataScope Select to GAIN
AIM Software has released version 4.0 of its GAIN financial data management platform. The latest release offers a golden copy management platform with functionality for data scrubbing, control and improvement of data quality and standardization of reference data and pricing data, and adds two additional financial data feeds: EDI and Reuters DataScope Select.
ReferenceDataFactory Unveils Extendable Integration Data Model
ReferenceDataFactory has released the RDF Integration Data Model, the result of three years’ development. The new data model provides a standard business view of data across all asset types in a business centric representation. The RDF Integration Data Model is extendable, and can expose data through XML via messaging or web services or through a...
New Asset Control CEO Phil Lynch Plans to Build “Ecosystem” Around Data Management Suite
The combination of Asset Control and TAP Solutions creates a data management product line-up capable of meeting the requirements of financial institutions of all sizes globally, according to the new Asset Control CEO Phil Lynch. For larger institutions, the merged systems offer the prospect of an integrated solution for centralised data management supported by downstream...
COR FS Revamps Salerio for Improved Ref Data Management
COR Financial Solutions (FS) has unveiled a new release of its Salerio post-trade exception management solution which includes a new user interface, enhanced search capabilities and easier navigation around standing data tables, designed to make reference data easier to manage. According to Lee Runciman, head of business development at COR FS, standing settlement instruction (SSI)...
Mellon, Eagle, Telekurs Team up To Integrate VDF into PACE
Mellon Financial has selected the Valordata Feed (VDF) from Telekurs Financial as part of its enterprise-wide global reference data infrastructure. Mellon is using VDF to integrate a range of securities reference data – including security descriptions, ID cross-reference and corporate actions – into Mellon’s Eagle PACE data management platform, provided by Mellon subsidiary Eagle Investment...
FIMA Speakers Preach Pragmatic Approach to Data Quality
One of the most memorable pronouncements at FIMA 2007 in New York last month came from a speaker from a major investment management firm who, when asked from the floor how big a problem it is for the data management industry that there are still no global standards for security and entity identification, replied: “Unnecessary...
Rydex Picks AccessDX for Data Management Services
Rydex Investments has selected Access Data Exchange (AccessDX) from Access Data to aggregate and process shareholder data from financial intermediaries that distribute Rydex Funds. Rydex Investments is a financial services company, based in Rockville MD, offering 35 investment products, including sector, benchmark and dynamic funds for a variety of market conditions. Rydex manages $15 billion...
ReferenceDataFactory Unveils Bloomberg Adaptive Client
Data integration vendor ReferenceDataFactory (founded by a team of ex-FTI/GoldenSource people) has launched RDF Adaptive Client for Bloomberg Back Office. The service oriented architecture (SOA)-based solution for integration across Bloomberg Back Office and Per Security is designed to enable standards-based distribution of the data enterprise-wide. This Adaptive Client joins similar offerings for Reuters and Interactive...
PolarLake Implements Packaged Ref Data Distribution Solution
Dublin-based integration vendor PolarLake has packaged up a reference data distribution solution, PolarLake RDD, which has already been deployed by a global asset manager. PolarLake RDD is designed to meet the requirement for the distribution of reference data in sell side, buy side, custodian and fund administration businesses, being implemented alongside solutions from EDM vendors...