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GBST’s Shah Talks up New Corporate Actions Solution Launch for Broker Community
Following its rebrand under its parent company’s name in August, the vendor formerly known as Coexis, GBST, has decided to join the corporate actions vendor community. As one of a number of new entrants this year into this already fairly well populated market, GBST is attempting to set itself apart by tailoring its solution to…
RDR Poll This Month: How Has the Recession Impacted your Headcounts?
It is no secret that times are tough for most in the financial services community: budgets have been slashed and there have been many casualties of cost cutting exercises. But how has this impacted your data management teams and how does this compare to other firms out there? Much has been made of the importance…
First Derivatives Acquires Reference Data Factory for US$10m
It has certainly been a confusing year for clients and staff at New York-based reference data management solution vendor Reference Data Factory (RDF). Not only were they subjected to a demerger with data management consultancy LakeFront Data Consulting in January, they are now have an entirely new management team from First Derivatives to contend with….
Formicary Adds Focus on Back Office Requirements to Pricing Verification Solution
Technology integration solution vendor Formicary has released the latest version of its price verification solution, RiskSeer, with a view to improving its offering for the back office as well as those users in the front office. The vendor has traditionally pitched its solution at consumers of market data focused on pricing in the front office…
Eagle Investment Systems Teams Up with Interactive Data to Control Cost of Data Integration
Eagle Investment Systems LLC, a leading provider of financial services technology and wholly owned subsidiary of BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, together with Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data business, today announced the availability of a packaged set of data interfaces. This agreement makes Interactive Data’s reference data available via Eagle’s data management solution. It…
Principia Standardises Integration, Ongoing Surveillance and Management of Collateral Performance Data
Principia Partners, a solution provider for the management and administration of structured finance portfolios, today announced the launch of Principia Structured Finance Platform (Principia SFP) Version 6.2. The latest upgrade helps financial institutions and investment managers to track, monitor, analyse and report on the collateral pool performance of any fixed income asset, including asset backed…
Fitch Solutions Partners with Pricing Partners on CDS Data Distribution
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group focusing on the development of fixed income products and services, and Pricing Partners, an independent valuation, today announced a strategic partnership allowing users of Pricing Partners’ Price-it Solution with Fitch Solutions market data license to access seamlessly Fitch Solutions’ market data on OTC credit derivatives. The partnership…
Nomura Launches Collocation Facility Using Colt’s Network Infrastructure
Nomura has selected Colt to provide network infrastructure for its new European connectivity and collocation service. The Nomura initiative comes as the Japanese firm seeks to build on the strong European equities position of Lehman Brothers, whose European and Asian operations it took over a year ago. Nomura calls its new infrastructure a “next-generation ultra-low-latency…
Q&A: RTI Introduces Wide Area Routing Service; Scaling To Hundreds of Thousands of Applications
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is best known for its messaging middleware, which is deployed in support of low-latency applications such as algorithmic trading, within trading firms. Recently, RTI introduced the RTI Routing Service, which can be used to bridge applications and networks running in different locations – up to tens or hundreds of thousands of applications….
ECB’s Reference Data Utility Plans Not Practical Enough, Say RDR Readers
It seems that the majority of Reference Data Review readers out there remain sceptical of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) proposed reference data utility. According to the results of out October reader poll, 43% of you do not think the proposals are practical enough to warrant being considered a desirable concept for the market. The…