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The New Cross-Asset Trading Challenge
The traditional separation of asset classes into distinct business organizations with incompatible trading systems is an idea whose time has ended. Today the growing quest to automate every variety of asset trading – and in so doing to make possible the trading of assets among different classes – has created a growing business case for…
Who’s Ready for SEPA? By Andrew Foulds, head of client services, CB.Net
As the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) deadline looms, there is a sense of panic growing among organisations, many of which are not prepared for the significant changes that will be required for payment processes. While corporates may be aware of the EU Directive and SEPA’s impending 2008 deadline, many have yet to devise a…
Swiss Re Asset Management Implements DSTi Data Platform
DST International’s (DSTi’s) Investment Data Platform on Oracle has been implemented at Swiss Re Asset Management (SRAM). Swiss Re has been a DSTi client for nine years. DSTi’s specialist asset management technology has been used to build an investment data hub to streamline the firm’s existing complex data architecture. The solution is comprised of a…
Eagle Joins Charles River Partner Integration Programme
Eagle Investment Systems has become a member of Charles River Development’s (CRD’s) partner integration certification program. The certification is based largely upon the development of standardized interfaces between the Charles River Investment Management System and Eagle PACE and Eagle STAR. The interface between the platforms provides a bi-directional flow of reference and accounting data and…
Interesting times ahead…
While I’m sure hard-core Reference Data Review readers would agree wholeheartedly with us that the world of enterprise data management is always an exciting place to be, it has to be said that recent weeks have been particularly exciting, with the flurry of corporate activity we’ve seen. The investment by Fidelity Ventures in Asset Control…
Swift Imposes Structure on MiFID Transaction Reporting Data
Swift is close to completing an ISO 20022 formatted transaction reporting message which it plans to pilot for three months on its network prior to launching a commercially available solution by the end of October in readiness for the November 1 Markets in Financial Services Directive (MiFID) implementation deadline. As an ISO standard, the message…
Bank Mandiri (Europe) Implements Cicada Profiler
Bank Mandiri (Europe) is installing Cicada’s Profiler software as part of an internal project to evaluate the advantages of automating its client onboarding, periodic compliance reviews and AML risk rating process.
Worried About IBEI and MiFID? Don’t Be… By Georg Eisel, Managing Director, WM Datenservice
As markets coalesce across systems and nations, the financial industry is faced with a new challenge. Thanks to new information technology, products and services are more integrated than ever. EU legislation, such as Basel II, the Transparency Directive and MiFID, is on the increase. It is now incumbent upon the financial industry to come to…
Ascend Launches Checker to Address IBAN/BIC Requirements
Cross-border payments specialist Ascend Global Solutions has added Checker to its suite of J2EE products. Checker is a web-based tool designed specifically to mitigate the effect of the recent BIC to IBAN initiative, which requires that all euro payments must have valid branch and account numbers to avoid the risk of rejection and penalty charges….
Capco, Systar Ally for Real-Time Monitoring of Client Lifecycle
Capco and Systar have joined forces to provide financial institutions with real-time and intraday monitoring environments that will sit on top of Capco’s client lifecycle management (CLM) solution. Users will have access to real-time data to monitor their CLM processes. Says Nick Jackson, partner at Capco: “We already have a managed service offering to which…