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Working Group Aims for U.K. Compliance with Corporate Actions Standards
A new U.K. Market Implementation Group (UKMIG) is aiming to harmonise U.K. national rules and practices relating to corporate actions processing, including distributions, shareholder rights and company reorganisations. The group, jointly chaired by the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) and CrestCo, is aiming to implement measures to remove Barrier 3, as set by the 2003 report…
Soliton Adds Capital IQ for Joho Capital
Data management provider Soliton has added company financial data from Capital IQ to its TimeSquare platform implementation at New York-based hedge fund Joho Capital. Capital IQ, now owned by Standard & Poor’s, combines private and public capital market data and technology. Its reported and adjusted company financial data has been integrated by Soliton’s TimeSquare into…
FTID Enters Business Entity Data Fray with Avox Deal
Getting in on the business entity data act, FT Interactive Data Europe has teamed up with Avox (formerly known as Azdex) to link issue to issuer and parent data. The deal brings them into the competitive realm of the likes of the Crosswalk joint venture and CounterpartyLink, and is in direct response to yet another…
Exchange Data and CounterpartyLink Join Forces with New Service
Exchange Data International (EDI) and CounterpartyLink (CPL) have joined forces to provide an integrated data service providing EDI’s corporate actions and reference data linked to and supplemented by legal entity data from CounterpartyLink. The new service is designed to help financial institutions comply with anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) regulations, and puts…
Mark to Market Launches Derivatives Valuations Service
A newly formed company, Mark to Market, is introducing an independent real-time valuation service for financial products from cash loans and deposits through to complex derivatives. The m2m online service has been launched in response to the recent developments in accounting and reporting requirements, in particular the International Accounting Standard 39 (IAS39) and U.S. Financial…
Standard & Poor’s Launches Evaluations for Euro ABS/MBSs
Standard & Poor’s has unveiled a new bond evaluations pricing service catering to the European structured finance marketplace. The move is aimed at filling a gap in the marketplace, which is plagued by lack of transparency particularly for illiquid asset- and mortgage-backed securities. The move marks Standard & Poor’s entrance to the European bond evaluations…
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…
Wells Fargo Adopts I-flex Reveleus Data Structures
Wells Fargo has implemented a platform from i-flex’s Reveleus unit to support its credit capital calculation application in order to meet its Basel II requirements. Underlying the platform is a set of data structures, business rules, computations and definitions that is expected to help the U.S. bank comply with the advanced internal ratings-based approach of…
CIBC to Implement GoldenSource as Third Leg Of Counterparty Data Management Facility
CIBC World Markets has secured the final leg of its data management platform for handling entity data. The firm – the capital markets arm of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce – is implementing GoldenSource’s Customers and Counterparties solution at its New York offices as the central data maintenance and storage application in support of the…
DTCC ‘Golden Copy’ Repository is Good News for Credit Markets
News that the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. plans to build a central repository for holding so-called golden copies of trade details for the OTC derivatives marketplace – and in particular for credit derivatives – will be welcomed by industry participants. Certainly, the credit derivatives marketplace has been crying out for help in getting its…