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Sun Life Global Investments Selects Broadridge Canada’s Smart Fund Facts Solution
Broadridge Financial Solutions, today announced that Sun Life Global Investments (Canada) has started an initiative to use Broadridge Canada’s Smart Document Creation solution for the automated creation of regulatory Point-of-Sale (POS) Fund Facts documents. The Smart Document Creation solution will create Fund Facts documents for mutual funds through an automated document creation process. In addition…
Loomis Sayles Selects Cadis as its Central Data Hub
Loomis Sayles & Company, US-based investment management firm with over $156 billion AUM, has selected the Cadis EDM platform to centralize its data management processes. Cadis, the global EDM specialist, will provide a significant enhancement to the company’s infrastructure, delivering cleansed and validated data while allowing for increased transparency and data governance throughout the organization….
Basis Technologies and UC4 to Provide Customers with Integrated Solutions for Large Scale Automated Data Processing
Basis Technologies International (BTI), a leader in add-on solutions that optimise SAP, has announced a strategic partnership with UC4, the world’s largest, independent IT automation software company. The partnership will deliver innovative solutions for SAP customers, including the integration of BTI’s Mass Data Runtime—a solution which delivers dramatic data processing improvements and is certified as…
Robert Pickel Appointed Chief Executive Officer of International Swaps and Derivatives Association – Conrad Voldstad to Serve as Special Advisor to the Board
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, (ISDA) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Robert Pickel as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2012. Mr Pickel, who is one of the derivatives markets’ most experienced and accomplished executives, returns to the post after serving as the Association’s Executive Vice Chairman for the past…
State Street Appoints Finbarr Downing as New Head of Compliance for State Street International Ireland
State Street Corporation, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, today announced the appointment of Finbarr Downing to head of compliance for State Street International Ireland. Finbarr joins State Street from Northern Trust where he served as head of fund and regulatory compliance. As head of compliance for State Street’s…
SEC Enforcement Division Produces Record Results in Safeguarding Investors and Markets
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that the agency filed a record 735 enforcement actions in the fiscal year that ended September 30. This record number includes many cases involving highly complex products, transactions, and market practices, including those related to the financial crisis as well as insider trading by market professionals. “We continue…
Leading Russian Investment Bank, VTB Capital, Selects Quantifi for OTC Analytics, Pricing and Portfolio Valuation
Quantifi, a leading provider of analytics, trading and risk management solutions for the global OTC markets, today announced that VTB Capital has licensed Quantifi XL as their front-office tool for OTC analytics, pricing and portfolio valuation. VTB Capital, the investment business of VTB Group, is a leader in global investment banking. VTB Capital offers a…
Talend’s New Community Coders Program Highlights Vendor’s Open Source Contributions
Talend , a global open source software leader, today announced the Community Coders Program, an initiative to provide a single source of information on all contributions made by Talend to open source community projects. Launched at ApacheCon North America 2011, the program allows community members and contributors to engage and discuss their work on open…
Virginie’s Blog – Making Threats and Opportunities
This week’s FIMA conference in London as usual saw industry practitioners discussing their recurring bugbears – IP rights within the vendor community, a lack of budget for more strategic data management projects (outside of those tied to compliance) and coping with the cost cutting exercises sweeping the financial services community – but it also involved…
GoldenSource’s Engdahl Elaborates on M&G Investments’ Platform Upgrade
Earlier this week, GoldenSource indicated that longstanding client M&G Investments has upgraded its implementation of the EDM vendor’s platform. Steve Engdahl, senior vice president of product strategy at the vendor, explains how the upgrade fitted into M&G’s Solvency II compliance preparations. The European asset management firm first bought the GoldenSource solution back in 2003 in…