TIAA-CREF Taps Fame for Enterprise Data Mangement
Buy-side giant Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) has chosen Fame Information Services’ ReferencePoint as the basis for a new enterprise data management platform to support its risk operation. ReferencePoint will be used to manage the flow of both real-time and historical data into its risk applications.
Princeton Financial Allies With DSTi for Data Integration
Portfolio management system vendor Princeton Financial has signed a strategic alliance with DST International that will partner Princeton’s PAM system with DSTi’s HiDataWarehouse offering. HDW is a hub that collects market and accounting information as an accounting repository and feeds commingled data to downstream applications.
Royal Bank of Canada Selects Vitria for Workflow Management
Royal Bank of Canada will use Vitria’s BusinessWare business process management suite as its global standard for straight-through-processing (STP) messaging. The bank’s RBC Investments wealth management unit will use BusinessWare to enable end-to-end transaction processing for broker/dealers, asset managers and custodians. Phase I of the project involves linking Royalblue’s Fidessa order management front-end to the...
Fame Teams Up with ClariFi to Enhance Back-Testing Capability
Fame Information Services has forged a marketing alliance with ClariFi, developer of the ModelStation back-testing platform. Under the arrangement, Fame will market ModelStation alongside its own reference and historical data solutions. ModelStation allows investment managers and researchers to perform ‘what-if’ scenario tests on returns and evaluate portfolios at each rebalancing to determine risk.
Asset Control Develops Entry-Level Service for Data Management of Single Feed Set-Ups
Asset Control has released AC SmartFeed, an entry-level feed-handler aimed at providing financial institutions with a quick and low-cost way of implementing a single-feed solution. The system performs all data enrichment, storage and distribution functions, allowing the user firm to link its chosen feed to risk, trading room, asset management and STP/security master applications. AC...
Threadneedle Asset Management Deploys DataNet Based on Eagle Investment Systems’ Product Suite
U.K. investment manager Threadneedle Asset Management is implementing a one-stop data hub for corporately shared data, under its Investment Information Services (IIS) business unit. The system – to be called DataNet – will use a range of Eagle Investment Systems Corp.’s reference data and portfolio management solutions. The DataNet project is aimed at establishing a...
Tullett Liberty Underpins Trade Notification with Robust Approach to Reference Data
Last summer’s release of Tullett Liberty’s Post:marker service heralded the interdealer broker’s first commercial foray into straight-through-processing. But as chief information officer Geoff Chapman explains, the firm has underpinned the offering with counterparty and security master databases it started work on more than five years ago. When interdealer-broker Tullett Liberty launched its Post:marker trade notifications...
Integration of Data and Software Analyzed in New A-Team Report
The raised profile of the issues surrounding reference data has sparked many data management projects, but reference data cannot be considered in isolation. What is needed is a coordinated approach to data and its integration with operational software used throughout the financial services enterprise. After all, the uncoordinated approach that saw millions spent on technology...
Wells Fargo Trust Is Live with Smartstream For Exceptions Processing
Wells Fargo Trust Management has gone live with Smartstream’s TLM Trade Process Manager, enabling it to automate exceptions processing for domestic trades. The system replaces a mostly manual process. TLM will be used to identify exceptions before T+3 as soon as the trade is executed. Wells Fargo previously used TLM but mainly for its straight-through-processing...
Telekurs (France) Spins Itself Off From Fininfo for Data Collection
Telekurs Financial has split from its French partner, Fininfo SA, and has established a new subsidiary to handle data input in Paris. Telekurs (France) SAS began operations on October 1, and will input data from the French, Monaco and French-speaking African markets. Telekurs (France) was founded in April. It has a new team of 16...