Euroclear NIEC to Serve as New Dutch National Numbering Agent
Euroclear NIEC (Nederlands Interprofessioneel Effectencentrum NIEC) is to serve as the national numbering agent for newly issued securities in the Netherlands. The transfer of this service from Euronext Amsterdam will take place in accordance with the rules of the Association of National Numbering Agencies for role transfers. More than 70 per cent of newly created...
Goal Acquires Securities Class Actions Specialist Magenta One
Global Operations and Administration Limited (GOAL), a provider of tax reclamation services, has completed the acquisition of Magenta One, a securities class actions specialist. As a wholly owned subsidiary of GOAL, the business will trade under the new name of Magenta One Global Limited, operating out of GOAL’s headquarters in the City of London. David...
New Cusip Now Service Delivers Free 15 Minute Updates
The Standard & Poor’s Cusip Service Bureau has unveiled Cusip Now, an issue alert service available free to all licensed Cusip customers from December. Cusip Now uses push technology to deliver new Cusip issues and reference data to market participants every 15 minutes. The service delivers Cusip data via FTP downloads to client databases and...
ADP Securities Database Tops 8 Million Instruments
The securities master database ADP Brokerage Services maintains and provides to users of its bureau based Global Processing Solution now contains more than 8 million securities. While 14 GPS clients take advantage of the service ADP also provides it to two non-GPS clients, and has recently secured a contract for its provision to a non-bureau...
Mizuho Securities USA Picks TAPMaster for All Instruments
Mizuho Securities USA has selected TAP Solutions’ TAPMaster platform to manage its entire database of historical market and reference data. The win is a coup for TAP, representing its first major win since it was accepted for Morgan Stanley wide-ranging Securities Master Service (SMS) reference data platform implementation (Reference Data Review, January 2005). Institutional broker/dealer...
London Stock Exchange Releases Sedol Validation Tools
The London Stock Exchange has launched two new products, SEDOL Validator (SEVAL) and the Data Validation Service (DVS). SEVAL enables users to validate their securities masterfiles against the SEDOL Masterfile held at the Exchange. The DVS is a generic data reconciliation engine that enables users to rapidly validate multiple sources of data. SEVAL and the...
GoldenSource Scores Another Client Win With Securities, Positions Deal at OpHedge
Reference data platform provider GoldenSource Corp. has picked up another client, following a string of implementations and new contracts over the past several months. The new addition is fund operations and administration service provider OpHedge Investment Services, which has licensed the GoldenSource Securities & Products and GoldenSource Positions modules. OpHedge hopes the GoldenSource platform will...
FactSet Opts for Telekurs VDF To Support Securities Master File
As it continues to expand its own information services offerings, Norwalk, Conn.-based FactSet Research Systems Inc. has opted to use Telekurs Financial’s Valordata Feed to augment the securities master file it uses to underpin management of the numerous internal and external data sources it uses. As well as augmenting its security master file, FactSet will...
S&P Teams with Markit to Offer Entity-Issue Link for Credit Swaps
Following a custom implementation at Rabobank International, Standard & Poor’s has launched Reference Entity Link, aimed at the credit default swaps marketplace. The service, which draws upon Markit’s Reference Entity Database (RED) provides full issuer and issue coverage behind each CLIP code. CLIP codes – named for Cusip-Linked Entity Markit Code (Reference Data Review, March...
LSE Information Services Revenues Rise 6%; SMF Licenses Total 1,000
Information Services provided a bright spot in the London Stock Exchange results for the six months ended September 30. Information services’ revenue rose 6% to £45.1 million, contributing 33% of total turnover. The exchange’s new SEDOL Masterfile service, which provides unique identification for securities on a global basis, has now more than 1,000 licenses sold....