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Advent Software Expands EMEA Team to Meet Growing Demand
Advent Software, a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, has more than doubled the number of certified project management and consulting team members supporting clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa during the past 12 months. The team now includes more than 65 qualified Advent consultants and implementation…
Summit Survey – Thomson Reuters’ Kelly Explores Technology Drivers, Focus, Buy vs. Build
Delivering the opening keynote for last week’s Low-Latency Summit in NYC, David Kelly, Thomson Reuters’ CTO for Enterprise Solutions, put the audience response system to good use, polling the standing room only crowd on a number of key questions … covering technology drivers and focuses, and also on buy versus build, where the result was…
Patrick Williamon Joins XSP as Quality Assurance Manager
XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions solutions, today announced that Patrick Williamon has joined the Company as a Quality Assurance Manager. This appointment has been further supported by new hires within its Quality Assurance and Development teams. Williamon joins XSP as the Quality Assurance Manager, responsible for running the day-to-day operation of…
Markit Boosts Index Business Scalability with XSP CA Platform Upgrade
Markit’s renewal and extension of its corporate actions processing platform deal with XSP will allow it to expand its operations to serve more customers and make more calculations while maintaining accuracy and timeliness. As part of the renewal, Markit has added XSP’s Headline Indices functionality to the XSP v5 platform it operates in-house. According to…
Low Latency Taking Off in Latam
The news this week that Direct Edge is planning to set up shop in Rio de Janeiro is indicative of the growing importance of Latin America as a financial trading region, and one where low-latency technology is playing a leading role in transforming the marketplace. And the action is not just happening in Brazil, with…
Exegy Adds B-Pipe; Integrates Consolidated and Direct Data Feeds
With the integration of Bloomberg’s B-Pipe, Exegy is supporting its first consolidated data feed on its ticker plant appliance, augmenting the direct data feed coverage that it already offers. The implementation is already live at one hedge fund customer in London, say company execs. B-Pipe offers coverage from “250 exchanges and thousands of data sources…
And the Winner Is….
It’s that time of the year again. No, not that time. It’s time for A-Team’s Valuations in European Buy-Side Institutions Performance Benchmarking survey! Now in its second year, our benchmarking survey is the industry’s opportunity to have its say on the performance of its suppliers. We recently published the results of the North American version…
ConvergEx Group Appoints R.G. Manalac Managing Director of Asia-Pacific
ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that R.G. Manalac has been named managing director for the Asia-Pacific region. In this expanded position, Mr. Manalac is responsible for coordinating all of ConvergEx’s business lines across the region. He will continue to serve as the director of Asia-Pacific Consulting for ConvergEx’s Eze Castle Software. “ConvergEx…
MoneyMate’s Smyth Elaborates Further on the M&G Investments’ Implementation
M&G Investments first looked at establishing a new product master data solution for its 50-odd retail funds back in the summer of 2009 and, after a detailed and in-depth couple of years of background research and planning, it has finally rolled out the first phase of buy side data management specialist vendor MoneyMate’s DataManager solution….
HSBC’s Johnson Highlights the Deep Data Content Requirements of Solvency II
Although Solvency II may at first appear to be an insurance only focused regulation, the asset management and asset servicing communities are having to prepare for some fairly onerous deep data requirements coming their way by way of their insurance clients, warned Chris Johnson, head of product management for market data services at HSBC Securities…