EDM Council Reconvenes To Review Research
After a seemingly long period of silence, the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council reconvened to discuss progress in a meeting held by its new Executive Advisory Board (EAB). Still in the ‘research’ phase, the group has come to some conclusions on potential initiatives to focus on, and hopefully will now progress to the ‘action’ phase....
CityIQ Named Implementation Partner for Xenomorph System
Asset management consultant CityIQ has become the latest officially accredited implementation partner for Xenomorph’s TimeScape data and decision management system, which specialises in derivatives. The deal enables asset management clients to add derivatives capabilities to their process “without the need for wholesale redevelopment of existing technology infrastructure”. The partners, which have worked together before, believe...
Citadel Expands with Boston Office
UK-based data management firm Citadel Associates has opened its first North American office in Boston, Mass., with the chosen location reflecting the buy-side nature of its clients. Citadel says that it has secured several major US-based global fund managers for its Cadis data management system, which justifies the expansion. The US operations center will be...
Mitsubishi Extends Syn~ Platform To Full Range of Cash Markets
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc (MUSI) has extended its use of Coexis’ Syn~ workflow and data management products to cover its full range of cash markets settlements. The aim is to achieve high levels of straight-through-processing across all cash markets asset classes by using standardized underlying technology based on the Syn~ platform. Syn~ was already...
Mondas Rolls Out Radica CAPS for First Global Asset Management Client
Mondas PLC has delivered the latest version of its flagship product Radica CAPS, launched in December 2005, to one of its global asset management clients. The undisclosed client will be implementing the corporate actions solution to enable two of its centres to share common event data. Legal entity filtering ensures that each centre is only...
Reuters Launches DataScope Select in the Asia Pacific Region
Reuters has launched DataScope Select in the Asia Pacific region. The service, already available in Europe and North America, provides a cross-asset view of Reuters pricing and reference data on an intraday, real-time, delayed and/or end-of-day basis via a single data source, and allows customers to select and pay for only the data they need.
AIM Software Secures ODL Securities as Client
Austrian reference data management provider AIM Software has secured London-based ODL Securities Ltd. as a client for its Gain platform. ODL Securities will be using the platform for integration of price, static and corporate actions data provided by FT Interactive Data’s FTS ExShare product into its Oracle-based infrastructure. The integration, which took four weeks, has...
FT Interactive Data Joins Linedata’s Partner Programme
Linedata Services has made reference data from Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data Europe unit available through its Accredited Data Vendor Partner Programme for its Icon portfolio management platform. Icon users already have access to prices, evaluations, FX rates and indices data from FT Interactive Data’s FTS portfolio administration service.
Capco Leaps Into Managed Data Services With Acquisition of ING’s Security Master
Capco is to acquire the security master file platform of Dutch bank ING Group as part of a deal under which Capco Reference Data Services will provide ING with managed data services under a seven-year deal. In a move reminiscent of IBM’s acquisition of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein’s data management platform as part of IBM’s Project...
Bloomberg Adds Access to S&P/MSCI Barra’s GICS Classifications
Bloomberg has added access to the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), jointly developed by Standard & Poor’s and MSCI Barra, to its Bloomberg Professional market data terminal service. The GICS methodology classifies more than 33,500 active companies and 37,500 securities by sector, industry group, industry and sub-industry, enabling users to conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses...