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Accuity Launches New Version of IBAN Validation and Conversion Tool

Payments reference data vendor Accuity has launched a new version of its online international bank account number (IBAN) validation and conversion tool. Version 2.2 of IBAN Payment Resource features account number decryption and basic bank account number (BBAN) to IBAN conversion, explains Malcolm Taylor, managing director for EMEA and APAC for the vendor. The new...

Volante Technologies Releases New Streamer for Cusip Integration Solution

Volante Technologies has launched a new solution aimed at integrating Standard & Poor’s Cusip Master File Service into firms’ databases or downstream applications. The new Streamer for Cusip solution was developed with the support of S&P’s Cusip Global Services (CGS) business and allows for the processing of additional data management rules such as validation and...

FOW Tradedata to Assist S&P’s CGS with US Liquidity Equity Options Cusip Development

Standard & Poor’s Cusip Global Services (CGS) business has certainly been busy over the last couple of months. Not only has it recently announced a partnership with business entity identification specialist Avox, it has now also agreed to work with UK-based futures and options specialist FOW Tradedata to develop a new Cusip identification system for...

S&P Adds Non-US Fixed Income Data from EDI to Securities DataManager

In keeping with its longstanding collaboration with data vendor Exchange Data International (EDI), Standard & Poor’s has added EDI-provided global terms and conditions data on more than 200,000 non-US fixed income securities to its Securities DataManager product. The vendors worked closely together to develop the non-US data offering, which is aimed at allowing customers to...

Accuity Completes Acquisition of CB.Net

Accuity has completed the acquisition of payments reference data vendor CB.net as part of its efforts to bolster its customer base and extend its offering. Hugh Jones, president of payment routing data vendor Accuity, explains that CB.Net’s existing relationships with the European Payments Council (EPC) and the Euro Banking Association (EBA) were of particular appeal....

Accuity Tipped to Buy CB.Net for Undisclosed Amount

Payments reference data vendor Accuity has indicated its intention to buy rival vendor CB.Net for an as yet undisclosed amount. According to Accuity, it is currently consulting with its partners and customers concerning the deal, which may put it into a better position in the competitive payments data market. CB.Net’s flagship product BankSearchPlus offers an...

London Stock Exchange Picks Volante Designer for Swift Message Integration into UnaVista

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has selected Volante Designer for the integration of Swift messaging into its UnaVista engine. According to Mark Husler, head of business development for UnaVista, the integration of Volante will enable LSE to automate the processing of Swift message standards and thus reduce project implementation timescales and associated costs. LSE moved...

SIX Telekurs Reaches 5m Milestone for Database Instrument Coverage

SIX Telekurs has passed the five million milestone for the number of international instruments covered by its reference database. The recently restructured vendor says the database has witnessed steep continual growth over the past year. The increase in financial data covered by the company can also be partly attributed to the acquisition of Fininfo SA...

Markit and S&P’s Cusip Service Bureau Partner for Universal ID for Loan Market

Following its announcement at the start October that it would be partnering with Standard & Poor’s (S&P), Markit indicates the two vendors are now working together to create a universal identification system for the loan market. The vendor is partnering with S&P’s Cusip Service Bureau with the aim of improving transparency and liquidity in the...

Standard & Poor’s Adds More Data to SecurityMaster Services Platform

Standard & Poor’s SecurityMaster Services, a web services delivery platform that provides direct access to a variety of securities data, has added access to three new reference data databases: the ISIDPlus global cross reference database, Cusip Syndicated Loan Service and the Anna Service Bureau’s ISIN database. The vendor has added this new data to the...