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SIAC Tests Volante Metadata Repository for Descriptive Data
The Securities Industry Automation Corp. (SIAC)’s Avner Gelb last month demonstrated tests of Volante Technology Inc.’s new Volante Metadata Repository (VMR) to manage and normalize disparate message types. Speaking at the High Performance on Wall Street conference in New York last month, Gelb, senior technical director at SIAC, said tests had enabled SIAC to shield…
Hedge Fund Advisor Polygon Licenses XSP for Corporate Actions
U.K.-based hedge fund advisor Polygon Investment Partners has licensed the XcitekSolutionsPlus’s XSP corporate actions processing platform. Polygon plans to interface XSP with the FundManager portfolio management system from Beauchamp Financial Technology. The global hedge fund is seeking to streamline its corporate actions process for optimal operational efficiency across its London and New York offices. According…
Telekurs Financial Appoints New Ireland Sales Manager McManus
Meanwhile, Telekurs Financial has appointed a new sales manager for its Ireland branch. John McManus will be responsible for all new and existing clients in the Irish marketplace. He joins from Dublin-based Zarion where he was a business consultant focused on compliance and anti-money laundering solutions within the financial sector.
Focus on: Basel II and Data Management
Basel II and its requirements for measuring operational and credit risk is one of the key drivers behind the need to accurate and timely reference data. The following is an edited extract of an article written by Dr Urs Bischof, head of VDF engineering at Telekurs Financial and featured in Telekurs’ realtime customer magazine The…
What do you think of the reference data services out there?
After a refreshing couple of weeks on a European break, we’re back in the full swing of things. And boy, are things swinging! As well as producing our fine publications, A-Team has embarked on a commissioned survey to understand what reference data managers really think about the information services out there, and how various firms…
Deutsche Bank Taps Cicada, DSL for Global Know Your Client Compliance Project
As part of its global reference data management initiative, Deutsche Bank has contracted with Cicada Cos. to provide advisory and cleansing services to ensure compliance with Know Your Client (KYC) regulatory requirements. The German bank has adopted a risk-based approach to KYC compliance, which it believes has yielded many operational efficiencies and benefits as a…
Bank of New York Sees Netik’s Data Capabilities As Enabler for Outsourced Investment Management
Bank of New York plans to leverage its new 51% stake in Netik, a U.K. software company that specializes in transaction and accounting data management, to add compulsion to the bank’s pitch to potential clients of its investment management outsourcing services business. Netik’s enterprise data management capabilities – including handling of multiple sources of reference…
Case Study: Henderson Global Centralizes Using DISL Integral
Henderson Global Investors, a mid-sized U.K. investment management firm, is about a third of the way through an almost three-year project to revamp its data management procedures across the board. With its back office outsourced to Cogent, Henderson’s focus was on the data used to support its front and middle offices, including the investment management,…
Case Study: Deutsche Stresses Strong Governance Approach
Deutsche Bank expects to complete its wide-ranging DB Reference Data Programme – launched in 2002 and encompassing a single model for client, instrument and organizational data – by the first quarter of next year. In developing its plans for the project, Deutsche took care to acquire management buy-in, establishing a Corporate Reference Data Governance Forum…
Soliton Links to Counterparty Data From CreditDimensions
Reference data management firm Soliton is adding links from its instrument data to legal entity data, through a new partnership with CreditDimensions. The two firms are launching the (as yet unnamed) joint product at this month’s Securties Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference at the New York Hilton, which will provide clients with a consolidated…