Johannesburg Exchange Awards Reference Data Deal to Accenture
The Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE) has awarded Accenture a two-year contract to consolidate its reference data architecture onto a new platform. The project will also involve the South African exchange’s information reporting, clearing, accounting and administration systems. The new platform will be built using available technology products and custom applications. The deal comes as the...
Causeway Capital Uses ASP to Access Eagle Data Hub and Applications
Causeway Capital Management, with $12 billion under management, has gone live with Eagle Software’s accounting, portfolio reporting, and performance measurement applications, all accessed via the Eagle Access ASP service. The capabilities include the Eagle Pace data hub for data management and portfolio reporting, as well as the Eagle Star investment accounting solution, and Eagle Performance...
Volante Upgrades Swift Format Plug-in for 2005 MT Update
Data messaging company Volante has made available its Swift SRG 2005 as part of its Swift Format Plug-in for customers. The Standards Release Guide (SRG) is an annual update by Swift of its Message Type (MT) categories. Says Krishna Sudarshan, chief technology officer of Volante, “Our customers and partners save several months of effort, which...
Mondrian Picks Macgregor for Post Trade Communications
Mondrian Investment Partners has picked a post trade service from Macgregor to provide connectivity to Swift and Omgeo’s CTM, as well as for communica-tions of trade notifications, corporate actions and holding reconciliation messages. The Macgregor XIP Post Trade (MPT) solution, which uses ISO 15022 for data definitions, will be integrated with the London investment firm’s...
U.S. Bancorp Fund Services Picks Eagle’s Pace, Ref Data Manager
Eagle Investment Systems has secured U.S. Bancorp Fund Services (USBFS) as a client for its Eagle Pace and Portal services, as well as Eagle Reference Manager to underpin the solutions with securities data validation and exception workflow. These products will be used at USBFS, which provides its mutual fund clients with a range of administration...
Bear Stearns to Implement GemStone For Risk Data Latency
Bear Stearns plans to implement GemFire Enterprise from data infrastructure company GemStone to manage in-memory data across its enterprise applications, initially focused on Global Clearing and Settlement Risk Analytics as well as Program Trading. Bear Stearns realised its daily batch-oriented risk reporting was coming under strain as trading volumes increased and regulatory requirements became more...
AIM Teams Up with Xen for Asian Data Management Solution
Reference data management firm AIM Software has teamed up with Xen Business Solutions to provide an integrated solution between Xen’s treasury and portfolio management system and AIM’s Gain DataDesktop. The aim, say the companies, is to manage the “full lifecycle of data capture, cleansing, consolidation, enrichment and storage of reference, price and corporate actions data...
Lupus Accesses WM Datenservice via ADP Wilco
Frankfurt-based investment management firm Lupus alpha is to use ADP Wilco’s online access to the WM Datenservice German securities reference database, made available recently . This is being used alongside ADP Wilco’s outsourced Swift service bureau, which will replace Lupus’ existing fax-based systems.
Volante White Paper Promotes Federated Approach to Data
Volante Technologies chief technology officer Krishna Sudarshan espouses a federated approach to reference data in a recently issued what paper, Reference Data – an Insight into This Thorny Problem. Sudarshan promotes the idea of using Volante’s Message Metadata Repository and other technologies to build and maintain central metadata rules without the need for a single...
The Need for Governance in Data Centralization Projects Selected extracts of a white paper by Steve French, Azimuth Financial
Many organizations have attempted to create centralized data groups (CDGs) responsible for sourcing, maintaining and distributing core data to all departments. There are clear reasons for doing this: efficiency, consistency, data quality, risk and regulatory compliance. However, despite all of these drivers, very few organizations have created CDGs. Of the top 20 investment banks (as...