Exchange Data International Launches Initial Public Offering Database
Exchange Data International (EDI) has launched the Worldwide Initial Public Offering (IPO) Database. The new service monitors IPOs worldwide and provides daily updates via email or the web on all IPOs in 74 countries. Reporting on rumoured, pending, new and historical IPOs, the service can be used by investment banks to track IPO progress by...
TAP Solutions, HP Expand Existing Sales and Marketing Partnership
TAP Solutions has expanded its joint sales and marketing partnership with Hewlett Packard. Under the deal, TAP will make its TAPMaster software suite available to HP’s financial markets offerings in the form of the HP Open Reference Data solution. The joint solution offers a full Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to resolve data integrity issues and...
Mellon Financial Combines MAS with Eagle Product Offerings
Mellon Financial has combined its Mellon Analytical Solutions (MAS) business with the Eagle Performance system. The move follows Mellon’s acquisition of Russell Investment Group’s 50% share in the Russell/Mellon joint venture last September. The combined offering provides portfolio and mutual fund performance measurement, performance attribution, index data management and portfolio analysis and reporting to institutional...
Volante Technologies Products Optimized with SpikeSource
Volante Technologies has fully configured and optimized its products for use with SpikeSource Spike Stacks to create an open source infrastructure. Volante’s data management products, which run in J2EE and .Net environments, now carry Java, Apache and MySQL components, providing solutions for financial services based on business-ready open source infrastructure, with end-to-end testing and a...
GoldenSource Corp. Expands Offshore Total Centre in Mumbai
GoldenSource Corporation is expanding its Offshore Total Centre (OTC) in Mumbai, India, in partnership with TCGIvega Information Technologies (TCGIvega). To address an increased demand in its development, customer support, professional services and other back-office support functions in Asia, the OTC has moved into a new facility located in Mumbai’s technology sector.
Olayan Group to Implement TAPMaster as Core Data Platform
The Olayan Group, a Saudi multinational, has decided to implement TAP Solution’s TAPMaster platform as its core reference data management system for its asset management operation. The deal is the first for TAP for some time, following its big win at Morgan Stanley (Reference Data Review, January 2005). At Olayan, TAPMaster will become the company’s...
AIM Software, FT Interactive Data Hook Up via Gain Platform
AIM Software and FT Interactive Data have agreed to collaborate in conducting an extended mapping of FT Interactive Data’s information services via AIM’s Gain reference data management platform. The new relationship builds on several years of cooperation maintaining access to the FT Interactive Data services via Gain. Under the arrangement, FT Interactive Data will offer...
HighMark Capital Selects Cadis To Support New OMS Platform
San Francisco-based HighMark Capital Management has implemented Citadel’s Cadis Data Management Platform (DMP) to support its new order management system (OMS) implementation. Citadel’s selection by HighMark Capital, which serves as investment advisor for HighMark Funds, is the second buy-side win announcement for the data management software firm this year. Scotland-based investment management firm Aegon Asset...
BBH Infomediary Adds Data Manager With Access to ID Code
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) has released Data Manager, a web-based module for Infomediary, its integrated communications outsourcing solution, which allows global asset managers to outsource their straight-through-processing (STP) and messaging infrastructure. The new module gives Infomediary clients enhanced functionality to directly customize, view and control their time-sensitive data in real time through a...
Ness Technologies Promotes FDE Platform At New York’s FIMA Data Management Event
Ness Technologies took the opportunity of this month’s Financial Information Management (FIMA) conference to promote its Financial Data Enterprise (FDE) reference data management platform. The platform was developed by Ness Innovative Business Services (Ness IBS), previously known as Innova Solutions, a provider of integration services for investment managers, broker/dealers and third-party administrators. FDE provides a...