Reuters Launches DataScope Select in the Asia Pacific Region
Reuters has launched DataScope Select in the Asia Pacific region. The service, already available in Europe and North America, provides a cross-asset view of Reuters pricing and reference data on an intraday, real-time, delayed and/or end-of-day basis via a single data source, and allows customers to select and pay for only the data they need.
AIM Software Secures ODL Securities as Client
Austrian reference data management provider AIM Software has secured London-based ODL Securities Ltd. as a client for its Gain platform. ODL Securities will be using the platform for integration of price, static and corporate actions data provided by FT Interactive Data’s FTS ExShare product into its Oracle-based infrastructure. The integration, which took four weeks, has...
FT Interactive Data Joins Linedata’s Partner Programme
Linedata Services has made reference data from Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data Europe unit available through its Accredited Data Vendor Partner Programme for its Icon portfolio management platform. Icon users already have access to prices, evaluations, FX rates and indices data from FT Interactive Data’s FTS portfolio administration service.
Capco Leaps Into Managed Data Services With Acquisition of ING’s Security Master
Capco is to acquire the security master file platform of Dutch bank ING Group as part of a deal under which Capco Reference Data Services will provide ING with managed data services under a seven-year deal. In a move reminiscent of IBM’s acquisition of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein’s data management platform as part of IBM’s Project...
Bloomberg Adds Access to S&P/MSCI Barra’s GICS Classifications
Bloomberg has added access to the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), jointly developed by Standard & Poor’s and MSCI Barra, to its Bloomberg Professional market data terminal service. The GICS methodology classifies more than 33,500 active companies and 37,500 securities by sector, industry group, industry and sub-industry, enabling users to conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses...
Exchange Data International Launches Initial Public Offering Database
Exchange Data International (EDI) has launched the Worldwide Initial Public Offering (IPO) Database. The new service monitors IPOs worldwide and provides daily updates via email or the web on all IPOs in 74 countries. Reporting on rumoured, pending, new and historical IPOs, the service can be used by investment banks to track IPO progress by...
TAP Solutions, HP Expand Existing Sales and Marketing Partnership
TAP Solutions has expanded its joint sales and marketing partnership with Hewlett Packard. Under the deal, TAP will make its TAPMaster software suite available to HP’s financial markets offerings in the form of the HP Open Reference Data solution. The joint solution offers a full Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to resolve data integrity issues and...
Mellon Financial Combines MAS with Eagle Product Offerings
Mellon Financial has combined its Mellon Analytical Solutions (MAS) business with the Eagle Performance system. The move follows Mellon’s acquisition of Russell Investment Group’s 50% share in the Russell/Mellon joint venture last September. The combined offering provides portfolio and mutual fund performance measurement, performance attribution, index data management and portfolio analysis and reporting to institutional...
Volante Technologies Products Optimized with SpikeSource
Volante Technologies has fully configured and optimized its products for use with SpikeSource Spike Stacks to create an open source infrastructure. Volante’s data management products, which run in J2EE and .Net environments, now carry Java, Apache and MySQL components, providing solutions for financial services based on business-ready open source infrastructure, with end-to-end testing and a...
GoldenSource Corp. Expands Offshore Total Centre in Mumbai
GoldenSource Corporation is expanding its Offshore Total Centre (OTC) in Mumbai, India, in partnership with TCGIvega Information Technologies (TCGIvega). To address an increased demand in its development, customer support, professional services and other back-office support functions in Asia, the OTC has moved into a new facility located in Mumbai’s technology sector.