McDonnell Investment Management Is Live with Eagle’s Star
McDonnell Investment Management is now live with Eagle Investment Systems’ Star investment accounting system, following a four-month roll-out. McDonnell implemented the system with the aim of instituting an efficient straight-through-processing regimen. The web-based system was selected because of its ability to handle a high volume of transactions and to provide McDonnell with Schedule D statutory...
Reuters Strikes Up Alliance with Asset Control
Reuters DataScope has forged a strategic alliance with Dutch data management vendor Asset Control. The two companies plan to integrate their products, offering clients Reuters DataScope pricing, historical and reference information services within Asset Control’s data management systems. The deal is aimed at making Reuters’ equities, fixed-income and corporate actions services more quickly deployable within...
Credit Suisse First Boston Set to Make Selection of Data Management Suppliers for ODIN Project
Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) is set to decide imminently on a selection from a number of data management and workflow solutions providers for its internal ODIN global data management project. The chosen solutions (as there may be more than one), following an extensive evaluation of 17 suppliers that responded to an initial request for...
Abel/Noser Selects TAP Solutions; Canadian Firm Targets New York
New York brokerage Abel/Noser Corp.’s selection of TAP Solutions’ pricing data management platform has played a key role in the firm’s new fixed-income business initiative. And despite its billing as TAP’s second such implementation in the past 60 days, it heralds the commercial arrival of a new, low-cost player in the New York marketplace. Abel/Noser...
Reuters Identifies Enterprise Data Fastest-Growing Segment in 2003
In a wide-ranging product briefing to analysts in London earlier this month, Reuters identified enterprise data as its fastest-growing product segment in 2003. The segment, which falls under its new enterprise client group, includes Reuters’ DataScope pricing and reference data businesses. According to Reuters chief financial officer David Grigson, the enterprise information products group grew...
Bloor Names Coexis Data Manager First Generic Product
Independent research house Bloor Research has pronounced Syn~ReferenceData the first generic reference data software product. Syn~ReferenceData, developed by Coexis, offers a process-oriented and rules-based approach for describing and modeling how a business works, defining the rules that describe operations, and setting up role-based personalization to provide local access to data. With Syn~ReferenceData, a golden copy...
FTI Launches StreetConsolidator to Centralize Reference Data Management
Financial Technologies International (FTI) has launched StreetConsolidator, a data management platform that offers a centralized view of an institution’s reference data and market information, including proprietary data. The system combines FTI’s existing reference data and financial data management solutions. It allows users to centralize and consolidate data across business units. The aim is to offer...
Thomson Financial Adds Worldscope to Thomson ONE Banker
Thomson Financial continues to add content from its broad array of assets to the new ONE platform. This time, it’s added the Worldscope historical database to the Thomson ONE Banker service, aimed at the investment banking community. Worldscope is a major fundamental database containing financial statements, ratios, pricing and descriptive information.
State of Wisconsin Investment Board Selects Eagle for Reference Data Normalization Platform
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) has embarked on a major project to integrate and normalize the data used by its portfolio managers to run their investment models and to verify custodians’ reports on the performance of its external managers. SWIB is implementing Eagle Investment Systems’ Eagle Reference Manager platform at the heart of...
Financial Data Management Event Offers Practical Insight
Osney Media’s Financial Data Management conference in London next month promises to yield some insight into issues surrounding management of information within the financial services marketplace. Osney Media believes the key data management question for financial institutions has shifted in the past 12 months from “Should a data management project be implemented?” to “How will...