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Andrew’s Blog – The Hard Slog That Is Valuations
Great session on transparency in OTC securities at Andaz this week at a breakfast hosted by Interactive Data and featuring a practitioner panel moderated by our own Angela Wilbraham. It’s always refreshing to hear a frank exchange of views, and the panel – including BNP Paribas’ Peter Nowell and HSBC’s Chris Johnson – gave an…
Advent Software Expands EMEA Team to Meet Growing Demand
Advent Software, a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, has more than doubled the number of certified project management and consulting team members supporting clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa during the past 12 months. The team now includes more than 65 qualified Advent consultants and implementation…
Markit Boosts Index Business Scalability with XSP CA Platform Upgrade
Markit’s renewal and extension of its corporate actions processing platform deal with XSP will allow it to expand its operations to serve more customers and make more calculations while maintaining accuracy and timeliness. As part of the renewal, Markit has added XSP’s Headline Indices functionality to the XSP v5 platform it operates in-house. According to…
Patrick Williamon Joins XSP as Quality Assurance Manager
XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions solutions, today announced that Patrick Williamon has joined the Company as a Quality Assurance Manager. This appointment has been further supported by new hires within its Quality Assurance and Development teams. Williamon joins XSP as the Quality Assurance Manager, responsible for running the day-to-day operation of…
And the Winner Is….
It’s that time of the year again. No, not that time. It’s time for A-Team’s Valuations in European Buy-Side Institutions Performance Benchmarking survey! Now in its second year, our benchmarking survey is the industry’s opportunity to have its say on the performance of its suppliers. We recently published the results of the North American version…
ConvergEx Group Appoints R.G. Manalac Managing Director of Asia-Pacific
ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that R.G. Manalac has been named managing director for the Asia-Pacific region. In this expanded position, Mr. Manalac is responsible for coordinating all of ConvergEx’s business lines across the region. He will continue to serve as the director of Asia-Pacific Consulting for ConvergEx’s Eze Castle Software. “ConvergEx…
MoneyMate’s Smyth Elaborates Further on the M&G Investments’ Implementation
M&G Investments first looked at establishing a new product master data solution for its 50-odd retail funds back in the summer of 2009 and, after a detailed and in-depth couple of years of background research and planning, it has finally rolled out the first phase of buy side data management specialist vendor MoneyMate’s DataManager solution….
HSBC’s Johnson Highlights the Deep Data Content Requirements of Solvency II
Although Solvency II may at first appear to be an insurance only focused regulation, the asset management and asset servicing communities are having to prepare for some fairly onerous deep data requirements coming their way by way of their insurance clients, warned Chris Johnson, head of product management for market data services at HSBC Securities…
Morningstar Launches Morningstar Analyst Rating for Funds, New Global Scale for Qualitative Ratings
Morningstar, a leading provider of independent investment research, today launched the Morningstar Analyst Rating for funds, the company’s new global scale for qualitative fund ratings. The Morningstar Analyst Rating is a designation assigned by Morningstar fund research analysts around the world and derived from the company’s five pillar analytical framework that considers the following key…
M&G Investments Selects MoneyMate’s DataManager
MoneyMate, a leading provider of investment data management solutions to the global asset management industry, today announced that it has been selected by M&G Investments to implement DataManager to ensure the accurate, efficient and controlled delivery of M&G’s fund product data to internal departments, external agencies and external clients. DataManager will host M&G’s range of…