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Netik Eases InterView Implementation for Asset Managers with Off-The-Shelf Adapters

Bank of New York-owned Netik has carried out two implementations of a pre-packaged set of programs, metadata and pre-configured enquiries/reports organized into role-based “Explorers”, that sits on top of its InterView data warehouse and enables the system to be installed at investment management firms in around three months instead of the usual six to nine....

ABN Amro Negotiates Challenges Of Centralised Data Distribution

Long time Asset Control customer ABN Amro is pursuing an ambitious strategy to centralise reference data delivery across the whole of the group, including wholesale, retail and asset management. The strategy is underpinned by four data “pillars”: client and counterparty data, market data, instrument pricing and corporate actions and common reference data (currency and exchange...

BondDesk to Distribute DPC’s MuniPOINTS Data Service

DPC Data and BondDesk Group have forged a strategic alliance under which BondDesk, provider of a retail fixed income trading platform, will distribute DPC’s data service MuniPOINTS. The service summarises all the key facts on any US municipal bond deal in a one page sheet. MuniPOINTS has been implemented during the past year by a...

Solera Repurposes TAPMaster To Handle Loan Collateral Data

San Diego-based Solera Group has selected TAPMaster, the enterprise data management platform from TAP Solutions, to support the analytic and risk management demands of its mortgage loan production and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) advisory services business. Solera’s CEO Chris Wiley says the repurposing and extension of TAPMaster to enable it to cope with “the next level...

Lloyds TSB Adopts AC Plus For Complex Products

The UK’s Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets has begun a phased implementation of Asset Control’s AC Plus centralized data management solution to assist its provision of complex products to clients. According to the vendor, AC Plus is replacing a number of spreadsheet based applications and will be used to support expanded daily trading activity, manage risk...

FT Interactive Data, CMS BondEdge Extend Collaboration

Aiming to support the increasingly sophisticated risk management requirements of buy side clients such as Schroder Investment Management, the FT Interactive Data business of Interactive Data Corporation (IDC) has extended its collaboration with IDC’s CMS BondEdge business to add new data items to its risk and analytical data service. Schroder is one of four existing...

Telekurs Financial to add New Reference Data to VDF for MiFID

Telekurs Financial is to introduce new reference data to help its clients achieve MiFID compliance. According to its head of product services Richard Newbury, a key aspect of Telekurs Financial’s plans is the reworking of its reference data model to make much more of the institution related data it holds, “in order to provide this...

JPMorgan’s Chief Data Officer Peter Serenita Gets to the Hub of the Matter

JPMorgan Chase has taken an “operational hub” approach to centralising reference data for its wholesale business, which has improved efficiencies and reduced costs, with most business units seeing “paypack within one to two years”, said Peter Serenita, chief data officer, JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services, who shared his experience at FIMA 2006 in London earlier this...

Citadel Notches Up Three New Clients for CADIS Solution

Citadel Associates, provider of data management solutions to investment managers, has chalked up three deals for its CADIS system in recent weeks, with AMVESCAP, the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investment Board and another as yet unnamed major buy side. Citadel says these wins prove the validity of its Investment Solutions Layer concept. The CPP Investment...

Ness Improves Data Acquisition and Extraction in FDE Platform

Ness Technologies has unveiled an enhanced version of its reference data management platform Financial Data Enterprise (FDE). New features in FDE 3.0 include an improved data acquisition interface enabling users to dynamically map, cleanse and transform incoming data in various formats to their underlying database models, an improved exceptions and workflow management interface and a...