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Swiss Life Funds Live with Aquin Data Management, Reporting Platform
Swiss Life Funds (Group Swiss Life), a subsidiary of Swiss Life Investment Management Holding, Zürich, has implemented Aquin Components’ central data management and reporting platform to support consolidation of fund and historic data and unified fund reporting, DVS. It took just 10 months to fully implement the DVS platform, providing Swiss Life Funds with a…
Telekurs Financial, Euroclear UK & Ireland Sign Data Supply Agreement
Telekurs Financial and Euroclear UK & Ireland have signed an agreement for the supply of certain static securities data available at Euroclear UK & Ireland. Euroclear UK & Ireland is the central securities depositary (CSD) of the UK and Ireland, and operates the multi-currency, real-time settlement system processing transactions in all UK securities, Irish equities…
Datanomic Unveils New Version of Data Quality, Integration Platform
Data quality specialist Datanomic has released dn:Director 6.2, the latest version of its data quality and data integration platform. dn:Director 6.2 delivers automated web service generation for deployment of real-time transactional data quality services in a service-oriented architecture, the vendor claims. dn:Director offers an interactive learning environment for organisations to profile, audit, cleanse, parse, match…
EDI Adds Structured Products to Corporate Actions Database
Exchange Data International (EDI), a specialist in the aggregation of reference and corporate actions data, has integrated structured products into its corporate actions database and Security Reference File services. Thus far EDI has integrated the following instruments into its database: Close Ended Funds, Investment/Income Trusts or Listed Investment Companies, Exchange Traded Funds, Principal Protected Notes,…
CRIS Consortium to Provide Platform for Independent Valuation, Risk Management of Credit Derivatives
A consortium comprising Zeliade Systems, OTC-Conseil, JPLC, Dexia CL, Evry University and Microsoft France and dubbed CRIS (Credit Risk Services) plans to develop a platform for independent valuation and risk management of credit derivatives. The consortium will have its first test client in the second part of the year and there will be ongoing developments…
The good, the bad and the ugly (news)…
News that Credit Suisse has been forced to suspend a group of traders in its structured credit trading division after “mis-markings and pricing errors” contributed towards another sizeable write-down serves as a further reminder – if one were needed – that ensuring accuracy and transparency in valuations of complex and hard to price instruments is…
XSP Names BNY Mellon’s Anthony Scanga Business Analyst, Operations Group
XSP, provider of corporate actions software, has appointed Anthony Scanga as a business analyst within the operations group. Scanga, previously a corporate actions manager at The Bank of New York Mellon, will be responsible for client operations support, professional services engagements and global implementations, while working with the pre-sales and sales teams to support the…
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Goes Live on ValueLink OTC Service
UK-based ValueLink has extended its provision of data services to BNY Mellon Asset Servicing to include OTC counterparty price collection and data reporting. The service for BNY Mellon, which ValueLink has been providing since the first week of December 2007, following extensive testing, is similar to that which the vendor has been providing to BNP…
LakeFront Adds Ian Mathers as Associate Partner
LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV) says Ian Mathers has joined the LDV Data Management Partner Program as a LakeFront associate partner. He will be concentrating his efforts on project management and implementation and process engineering and improvement. Mathers was most recently with Royal Bank of Canada and prior to that, he led the Project Management Improvement…
Netik Buys CRDS, Replaces BNY With VC, Pursues Service Vision
The question of what the merger of Bank of New York and Mellon would mean for the two data management vendors owned by the banks, Netik and Eagle Investment Systems respectively, has been answered, as Netik reveals its new primary investor as Symphony Technology Group. The two-part deal orchestrated by Netik (with Marlin & Associates…