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GlobeOp Hedge Fund Index Offers First Independent, Timely Window on Liquidity and Investor Sentiment
GlobeOp Financial Services will offer an independent monthly window into hedge fund capital flows with the launch next week of the first in a planned series of GlobeOp Hedge Fund Indices. “There is a real lack of independently confirmed industry data against which hedge fund managers and investors can benchmark their allocations and performance,” said…
Netik Signs as Elite Index Data Partner with NASDAQ OMX
Netik, a global provider of financial data management and reporting services and products, today announces that it has been signed as an Elite Index Data Partner with NASDAQ OMX, the world’s largest exchange company and global leader in creating and licensing benchmark indexes. Netik offers the full suite of data for all NASDAQ OMX indexes…
Fiera Sceptre Selects B-One Solution for Performance, Risk Attribution and GIPS Compliancy
BI-SAM today announced that Fiera Sceptre has selected its B-One platform for performance, risk measurement and attribution, thereby becoming the group’s first Canadian client. Fiera Sceptre was formed by the merger of Sceptre Investment Counsel Limited and Fiera Capital Inc in August 2010. Fiera Capital had been approached by BI-SAM in early 2010, before its…
RBC Dexia Appoints New Managing Director for the United Kingdom
RBC Dexia Investor Services has appointed Simon Shapland as Managing Director for the UK, subject to regulatory approval. Mr. Shapland will chair the UK Management Committee and have overall responsibility locally for both the business strategy and for employee relations. He will also be in charge of client satisfaction and of developing local regulatory relationships….
ISITC Europe Meeting Highlights Data Standardisation Challenges Underlying Electronic Trade Confirmation
Last week’s ISITC Europe meeting indicated that before any action can be taken to move to higher levels of electronic trade confirmation across the industry, a number of data standardisation challenges must be tackled first. Swift’s Fabian Vandenreydt, who was promoted to the position of head of Securities and Treasury Markets earlier this year and…
PaceMetrics and Nimbus Partner to Offer Financial Institutions Improved Operational Control
PaceMetrics, a global provider of process driven enterprise data management solutions and business process management (BPM) provider Nimbus, today announced a partnership that offers financial institutions the combined benefit of their complementary products and expertise. Their alliance couples the process clarity delivered by Nimbus Control, with the real time delivery of transactional information by PaceMaker,…
EDM Council’s Atkin Discusses OFR Developments, Plans for DMM and Data Quality ISIN Proof of Concept
Mike Atkin, managing director of data management industry group the EDM Council, has long been a proponent of the idea of a global reference data utility and he noted in his recent update to members that the process of drawing up the requirements for a legal entity identification as part of the US Office of…
BiSam’s New Recruit Petit on her Asset Management Experience at Allianz, Data Management Trends and Opportunities
Data management, analytics and client reporting solution vendor BiSam’s recently hired account management and business development manager Elena Petit speaks to Reference Data Review about her previous experiences at Allianz Global Investors France and how she intends to put them to good use in her new role. With a focus on the downstream requirements of data management…
UK FSA Reiterates its Commitment to Move from FRN IDs to the BIC for Transaction Reporting by End 2011
In its latest Market Watch newsletter the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) reiterates its intention to move from its proprietary FSA Reference Numbers (FRNs) to Swift’s Bank Identifier Codes (BICs) for entity identification purposes within transaction reports, as required under MiFID. In keeping with its discussions with the industry on the subject over the last…
Reval Adds Solution Consultants in North America
With treasurers taking on more risk and regulatory initiatives since the global financial crisis, Reval, a provider of software as a service (SaaS) solutions for corporate financial risk management, announced today that it has hired three new solution consultants in North America. The new hires join Reval’s global team of experts guiding treasurers in hedging…