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Wachovia Picks Asset Control’s AC Plus for Risk Management

Wachovia Corp. is implementing a data management solution from Asset Control to handle price data for its risk management operations within its corporate investment banking arm. It is envisaged that the data management platform could be extended over time to other groups within Wachovia, including credit products and equity derivatives. Barry Fenwick, divisional information officer...

SmartStream Technologies Signs Up Two Clients for Corona 7.0

SmartStream Technologies has signed up two clients for its new Corona 7.0 reconciliation and exceptions management product. Vseobecna uverova banka (VUB) of the Slovak Republic is implementing the solution to be hosted on VUB’s mainframe in its head office in Bratislava. Citibank Belgium has also recently upgraded to the new product version.

Cicada Launches Next Generation Composer with Workflow Module

Cicada has launched a next generation version of its reference data management solution, adding workflow management to the data management architecture. The new Composer Workplace module aims to provide business analysts with a greater degree of quality control and efficiency through either ‘out of the box’ or customized workflows to facilitate data review processes and...

SunGard Upgrades Data Management Software

SunGard Data Management Solutions last month upgraded its data management software related to the distribution platform and data analysis toolkit. SunGard’s Web Services distribution platform accessPoint 1.5, which provides enterprise access to Fame and other relational data within referencePoint, has been enhanced to allow customers to output data to an extended set of formats. These...

Standard & Poor’s Streamlines Sales, Data As Part of New Reference Data Strategy

Standard & Poor’s European group is streamlining its sales organization for reference and securities pricing services in a bid to provide clients with a single point of contact for many of its products. It is also working to integrate its data sets with the ultimate long-term aim of providing modular options on a common platform....

Update: FTI & Integra’s GoldenSource Dashboard

Six months on from entering their collaborative deal Financial Technologies Inc. (FTI) and Integra SP are closing deals with two large customers for the GoldenSource Dashboard, and are reporting traction among mainly Tier 1 firms and some mid-tier firms. Meanwhile, FTI is considering rebranding the company to GoldenSource, following its rebranding x months ago of...

Telekurs (USA) Bolsters Fixed Income Pricing Data with Bear Stearns PricingDirect

Telekurs Financial has extended it relationship with Bear Stearns PricingDirect to bolster its end-of-day securities pricing data within the U.S. and Canadian markets. Telekurs has previous supplied PricingDirect’s fixed income pricing data to customers in Europe and Asia. Now, following the release of its exclusive distribution deal with Standard & Poor’s, Telekurs (USA) is selling...

DST International Integrates Data Hub With HiRisk Application

As part of its aim to integrate its series of applications with its HiDataWarehouse data hub, DST International has released a new version that integrates with its risk management solution HiRisk (based on its acquisition of Askari). This latest addition means that HiDataWarehouse can act as the data hub for the entire DSTi middle and...

Vitria Upgrades BusinessWare Platform

California-based Vitria has upgraded its Vitria:BusinessWare 4.3 data management platform. The company has added new facilities in XML processing, trading partner integration, web services and business process management. The upgrade also features new modeling tools for handling exceptions and facilitating straight through processing.

Citadel Investment Group Implements Asset Control’s AC Plus…

Asset Control’s data management solution AC Plus has been implemented at Citadel Investment Group. The Chicago-based alternative investments firm considered a range of vendors including Cicada, Factset, Mercator, SunGard Data Management Systems, and Soliton. The deployment includes significant new enhancements co-developed by the two firms. These include an extension and streamlining of the data model...