Mellon, Eagle, Telekurs Team up To Integrate VDF into PACE
Mellon Financial has selected the Valordata Feed (VDF) from Telekurs Financial as part of its enterprise-wide global reference data infrastructure. Mellon is using VDF to integrate a range of securities reference data – including security descriptions, ID cross-reference and corporate actions – into Mellon’s Eagle PACE data management platform, provided by Mellon subsidiary Eagle Investment...
FIMA Speakers Preach Pragmatic Approach to Data Quality
One of the most memorable pronouncements at FIMA 2007 in New York last month came from a speaker from a major investment management firm who, when asked from the floor how big a problem it is for the data management industry that there are still no global standards for security and entity identification, replied: “Unnecessary...
Rydex Picks AccessDX for Data Management Services
Rydex Investments has selected Access Data Exchange (AccessDX) from Access Data to aggregate and process shareholder data from financial intermediaries that distribute Rydex Funds. Rydex Investments is a financial services company, based in Rockville MD, offering 35 investment products, including sector, benchmark and dynamic funds for a variety of market conditions. Rydex manages $15 billion...
ReferenceDataFactory Unveils Bloomberg Adaptive Client
Data integration vendor ReferenceDataFactory (founded by a team of ex-FTI/GoldenSource people) has launched RDF Adaptive Client for Bloomberg Back Office. The service oriented architecture (SOA)-based solution for integration across Bloomberg Back Office and Per Security is designed to enable standards-based distribution of the data enterprise-wide. This Adaptive Client joins similar offerings for Reuters and Interactive...
PolarLake Implements Packaged Ref Data Distribution Solution
Dublin-based integration vendor PolarLake has packaged up a reference data distribution solution, PolarLake RDD, which has already been deployed by a global asset manager. PolarLake RDD is designed to meet the requirement for the distribution of reference data in sell side, buy side, custodian and fund administration businesses, being implemented alongside solutions from EDM vendors...
Netik Close to Three Deals for Packaged Data Model
Netik is in the final phase of due diligence with three organizations for Netik Data Model Plus, a packaged-up version of the data model on which its Netik InterView data warehouse is based. The new product is aimed at large investment managers and asset servicers that have decided to build their own data warehouses –...
KLP Implements GAIN Platform For Multi-Data Feed Processing
Norwegian insurance and financial services provider KLP Kapitalforvaltning is using the GAIN platform from Austria’s AIM Software for the integration of data from vendors including Reuters (DataScope) and Bloomberg (Per Security) into its core SimCorp system, after a two-week implementation. According to Frank Maltais, head of pre-sales at AIM Software, KLP contacted the vendor last...
SunGard Upgrades referencePoint EDM Solution
SunGard has released version 4.1 of referencePoint, its global enterprise data management solution. The new version provides performance enhancements and additional flexibility within referencePoint’s configuration and workbench tools, reporting and historical data archives.
Perfect Information Re-Launches Filings Database
Perfect Information has re-launched PI Filings, its database comprising more than 7 million company filings, after having given it a feature and interface makeover. “We consulted with our clients to find out what features we could add to Perfect Filings that would improve their productivity and sit with their existing workflow processes,” says Greg Simidian,...
F&C Selects Citadel Associates’ CADIS for Data Management
F&C Asset Management has selected Citadel Associates’ CADIS as its data management platform. F&C is among a number of investment managers to take CADIS in recent months, with others including AMVESCAP, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (Reference Data Review, November 2006) and Schroders plc (Reference Data Review, February 2006).