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Sage and Talend Form Partnership to Boost Sage ERP X3 Interoperability Performances
Sage, a business management software provider and Talend, the worldwide leader in open source integration solutions, today announced the completion of a partnership, which will integrate Talend’s integration technologies with Sage ERP X3, Sage plc’s global ERP solution aimed at medium sized companies. Thanks to this global partnership, Sage ERP X3 customers will benefit from…
Swift’s Janssens on its Bid to be the OFR Supported Legal Entity ID Registration Authority
Swift may have backed away from pushing a reworked version of its Bank Identifier Code (BIC) as a legal entity identifier for the purposes of the US Office of Financial Research (OFR), but that does not mean it is out of the running as a standards issuer in the context of a global reference data…
Broadridge Financial Solutions CEO Calls for Nationwide Effort to Increase Individual Shareholder Voting
In remarks before the National Press Club this morning, the chief executive of the nation’s largest shareholder communications company called on all CEOs to encourage individual shareholders, including employee shareholders, to vote their proxies. “In 2010, just one in 20 individual retail investors voiced their opinions about the companies they invested in by exercising their…
Interactive Data Announces Real-Time Fair Value Information Service
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced the Real-Time Fair Value Information Service. The new service, which will be available in the second quarter of 2011, will provide real-time evaluated prices for more than 15,000 international equities throughout the trading day. These streaming evaluated prices reflect an…
EFAMA’s FPSG Champions Standardisation of Corporate Actions Messaging, Use of ISO Standards for Funds Processing
The European Fund and Asset Management Association’s (EFAMA) Fund Processing Standardisation Group (FPSG) has this month produced a report that charts the progress of standardisation initiatives in the European funds industry, including in the corporate actions space. The association’s working group, which was established in 2007, is positioning itself as a “catalyst for change” by…
SunGard Acquires ValueLink Information Services
SunGard has acquired ValueLink Information Services, a supplier of validated financial data solutions. The acquisition will extend SunGard’s Asset Arena suite of investment management solutions to include robust validation of security pricing and corporate actions data in support of fund valuation and operational reporting processes. The acquisition, the terms of which were not disclosed, is…
Interactive Data Aims to Provide a More Holistic View of Ref Data via its Business Entity Service Update, Says Cumberbatch
Interactive Data’s new web-based portal for its Business Entity Service took several months of development and the aim was to provide users with access to a more holistic and centralised view of the reference data related to a particular issuing entity, asset class, region or industry, explains Bob Cumberbatch, European business lines director for the…
Societe Generale Securities Services Mandated by Ethias to Provide Independent Valuations
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has been mandated by Ethias, a Belgian insurance company, to provide independent valuation services. These services cover a portfolio of complex structured products. SGSS was retained because of its expertise in this area, alongside the quality of its services (database of mathematical models developed in-house, flexibility in valuation frequency, analysis…
Staying Alert
Omgeo is keeping a close eye on developments at Swift, but for now, the standing settlement instruction (SSI) space is one of coexistence rather than competition. Earlier this year, Swift announced that it would be launching a new SSI repository and directory but did not fully elaborate on its ambitions. For now, the network operator…
SIX Telekurs Opens Two Computer Centres at Equinix Inc in Singapore
The global data centre service provider Equinix Inc will now host SIX Telekurs Singapore’s IT infrastructure, replacing SIX Telekurs’ existing Singapore-based computer resources. This will substantially enhance SIX Telekurs’ IT resources in Singapore. The infrastructure is hosted at two separate locations, thereby offering the benefits of redundancy and the very latest security standards. As an…