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SmartStream Launches Reference Data Utility Offering, Announces First Client
As first revealed by Reference Data Review in May last year, the Dubai International Financial Centre’s (DIFC) DClear subsidiary has been working on a reference data utility for some time. DClear Utilities, which is now a part of DIFC owned SmartStream Technologies, has now officially been launched on the market and has just bagged its…
Swift on Course for Cost Cutting, Corporate Actions is Big Focus This Year
The first day of Swift’s Sibos conference included a press conference during which CEO Lazaro Campos elaborated on the cooperative’s plans to drastically cut its cost base and the opening plenary, which included many references to Swift’s recent successes in the corporate actions space. Delegates to the event in Hong Kong therefore got the lowdown…
Fiserv Breaks Corporate Actions Silence with Upgrade to eVent Solution
After a fairly quiet year so far from the Fiserv corporate actions team, Sibos saw the launch of a newly enhanced version of its eVent corporate actions automation solution. The upgrade is aimed at improving the flexibility of election and instruction processing and the notifications process with more customisable options, explains Geoff Harries, vice president…
EDI Adds Dividend Data to FinDataPortal, But Who is Using the Service?
Following its launch last year, FinDataPortal (FDP) has added Exchange Data International’s (EDI) worldwide dividend data to its solution offering. EDI’s data feed will allow FDP to provide its users with in-depth coverage of cash and stock dividends across approximately 110 countries, says Jonathan Bloch, CEO and founder of EDI. The company, which was launched…
Brown Brothers Harriman Announces Successful Release of Action World 2.0
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) announced today the successful launch of its ActionWorld 2.0 release for its existing web-based, real-time corporate actions notification, response and payment platform. The upgraded solution well positions BBH’s clients to address growing complexity and challenges surrounding securities and cash management related to corporate actions. Building on BBH’s current ActionWorld…
For Users of Swift Alliance Integrator, Volante Adds Value With Validation and Translation Services
Powering finance with data management innovations, Volante today announced new add ons to Swift’s Alliance Integrator to ease Swift deployment and ensure correct message formatting. The Volante Swift Validation and Translation Services leverage Volante’s proven and comprehensive support of Swift messaging dictionaries and functions to reduce the effort involved in connecting to the Swift network,…
ProCapital Selects Xenomorph TimeScape for Reference and Market Data Management
ProCapital Securities Services, the French securities services company, has selected Xenomorph TimeScape for their centralised reference and market data management requirements. The project has already commenced and the solution will be in full production usage by December 2009. TimeScape will replace an internal solution and will be used to provide an enhanced single source of…
Omgeo CTM Best Practices Released to Provide Guidance for New Broker-Dealer Workflows
Omgeo has introduced a best practices document geared toward investment managers and broker-dealers to highlight the most effective ways for the two counterparties to interact with each other when matching trades via Omgeo Central Trade Manager (Omgeo CTM). Until recently, sell side clients wishing to leverage automated trade processing for cross border and non-US trades…
Sophis Appoints Giacoletto as Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Sophis has appointed Sergio Giacoletto as its new chairman of the supervisory board. Giacoletto recently joined Advent International’s Operating Partner Programme to advise the global private equity firm, and majority shareholder of Sophis, in the technology sector. Giacoletto replaces Pascal Stefani, managing director at Advent, who held the role of chairman for two years and…
Fiserv Expands Financial Control with Launch of Spreadsheet Workbench
Fiserv has launched Spreadsheet Workbench, a comprehensive spreadsheet control solution, to complement its Financial Control Solutions (FCS) suite. In a recent survey by Fiserv, nearly 90% of organisations believe that current practices in using spreadsheets do represent a material risk, yet the majority of respondents said they had only the most rudimentary of spreadsheet controls…