Reuters DataScope to Integrate with CicadaRisk’s RiskGrid
Reuters has forged an alliance with CicadaRisk to supply reference and historical data from its Reuters DataScope service to CicadaRisk’s new RiskGrid risk management system. The Reuters DataScope data is to be integrated within RiskGrid, which is targeted at the buy-side community. The system can be deployed on an ASP, hosted or on-site basis.
Capco Expands Global ETF Coverage To, Erm, North America and Europe
Capco Reference Data Services (CRDS), a managed reference and market data services provider, has announced it has significantly expanded its coverage of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in its Global ETF Monitor (GEM) product. An ETF is a basket of stocks designed to track an index, yet it trades like a single stock and GEM provides ETF-constituent...
Hermes Mulls BNY Outsourced Data Management Proposal
Asset manager Hermes Pensions Management Ltd. is considering using Bank of New York to provide a range of outsourced investment operations services, including data management. BNY’s proposal calls for the migration of Hermes’ operational functions to be migrated to the BNY SmartSource platform and centralized outsourcing business model.
IR Specialist EquityStory To Acquire DGAP Service
Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Ad-hoc-Publizitaet (DGAP), which provides electronic distribution of ad-hoc disclosures, is being acquired by EquityStory, an online investor relations specialist. DGAP was set up in 1996 by Deutsche Boerse, Reuters and Vereinigte Wirtschaftsdienste (VWD) to introduce electronic distribution of ad-hoc disclosures in Germany; it also publishes corporate news, directors’ dealings and press releases....
Citadel Forges Interface to FundWorks Client Reporting Platform
Citadel Associates and FundWorks have developed an interface between their respective data management and client reporting platforms. The link will allow clients of Citadel’s Cadis data management platform to control enterprise data flows, data quality and data storage, and provide the foundation for FundWorks to configure and generate high-quality client reports on validated data. The...
Decentralized Data May Cost Firms $600 Million Annually
Decentralized reference data operations and the effects of faulty data on operational risk and capital requirements could be costing financial services institutions an astonishing $600 million each annually, according to the findings of a recent research paper. The paper – titled Operational Risk and Reference Data: Exploring Costs, Capital Requirements and Risk Mitigation – claims...
DSTi to Embed Xenomorph’s Time-Series Data Management Platform
DST International has signed an exclusive global agreement with Xenomorph to embed Xenomorph’s time-series data management functionality into its Investment Data Solutions platform, aimed at buy-side users. By offering this support for storage, manipulation and retrieval of largescale time-series data and providing analytic applications and plug-ins to make analytics available in other applications such as...
Wachovia Taps Teradata For Basel II Preparation
As part of a new risk management programme, U.S. bank Wachovia is implementing data warehousing technology from NCR subsidiary Teradata. It will use the technology to consolidate its existing disparate risk databases into a centralized warehousing environment. The vendor says the new risk data platform will also enable the bank to meet the data management...
Abbey Financial Markets Doubles Match Rates with SmartStream
Abbey Financial Markets (AFM) has gone live with SmartStream’s TLM Reconciliations after selecting the vendor last year. According to Steve Jennett, Head of Operations for AFM, the ROI from the project has been significant, claiming STP match rates immediately doubled when cash reconciliations went live on TLM. In a phased roll-out, migrating key reconciliations and...
Standard & Poor’s Strikes Global Deal with Soliton
Standard & Poor’s has forged a global collaboration agreement with Soliton. Under the terms of the agreement, data management systems provider Soliton will manage the acquisition and integration of Standard & Poor’s securities data and reference data for financial services industry clients. This will enable customers to automate the acquisition, integration, and management of Standard...