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Citadel Signs Principal Global to Data Management Platform
Principal Global Investors has selected CADIS from Citadel Associates as its global data management platform. Principal Global Investors manages $244.9 billion in assets primarily for retirement plans and other institutional clients and is a member of the Principal Financial Group. With CADIS, Citadel’s component-based platform for the management of corporate data – version 5 of…
DIFC Bags SmartStream Technology For Hosted Data, Processing Offering
The acquisition of UK mid and back office systems vendor SmartStream for £200 million by the Dubai International Financial Centre (DFIC) – owner of the Dubai Stock Exchange – made headlines for a number of reasons. Not the least of these was the fact that the acquisition came just a month after SmartStream was forced…
Hong Kong’s CLSA Picks Coexis Syn~ for Enterprise Ref Data Management, Back Office Replacement
London and New York-based technology vendor Coexis has signed a global contract with Hong-Kong based investment bank CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets for the deployment of Coexis’ Syn~ for enterprise-wide reference data management and securities processing. Syn~ will be the primary processing system for CLSA Transaction Management at its Global Operations Centre in Singapore. Syn~ will then…
Reuters Adds OTC Equity Options Prices to DataScope Select
In its third quarterly release this year of its hosted data management and extraction platform DataScope Select, Reuters has incorporated what it says are significant enhancements to the solution in the areas of OTC equity options pricing and counterparty data. The evaluated pricing services within Reuters DataScope Select have been extended with the provision of…
Interactive Data Leverages Xcitek Acquisition to Offer Intraday Corporate Actions Data
Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data business has introduced in North America a new service for delivery of corporate actions information to clients throughout the day. The service leverages Interactive Data’s acquisition of Xcitek earlier this year (Reference Data Review, April 2007); intraday delivery of corporate actions data was already on the Xcitek product…
MiFID Increases Depth, Complexity Of Data Management, Firms Say
Data managers are grappling with some “deep and complex” issues related to vital functions such as trade reporting since the introduction of MiFID in Europe, London-based practitioners say. One challenge has arisen in particular, sources say, specifically related to inconsistencies between data issued by data vendors, trade reporting bodies like Boat and the Committee of…
Telekurs Financial Claims MiFID Ref Data is Attracting ‘Steady Number’ of New Clients
Telekurs Financial is reporting good take-up of its MiFID-specific reference data. The vendor declines to be specific on client numbers, but says it is “more than happy” with sign-up rates, and says the MiFID reference data has “attracted a steady number of new clients” across Europe and the rest of the world. The data vendor…
Former Citadel Execs Jean Williams, Rick Enfield Join Asset Control in London, New York
As exclusively reported by Reference Data Review @ FIMA earlier this month, data management solutions provider Asset Control has hired two former executives of buy side data management systems specialist Citadel Associates. Rick Enfield and Jean Williams have joined Asset Control as product business owners of Asset Control’s AC Plus and TAPMaster solutions respectively. Enfield…
S&P Emphasises Co-ordinated Relationship with Asset Control as More of its Feeds are Integrated to AC Plus
Standard & Poor’s is trumpeting the availability of feed handlers to integrate a range of its data services into Asset Control’s AC Plus solution. The integration is, says S&P, a demonstration of its strong and well co-ordinated relationship with the data management systems vendor, which should serve to reassure mutual clients that they will not…
‘Assume Role of Vendor’ to Ensure Rigour in Applying Data Licences, State Street’s John White tells FIMA
A clear and thorough understanding of precisely how data is utilised within investment firms, tied to “differentiating” data usage, is essential before data licensing can be effectively and successfully embarked upon, John White, principal data management, State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), has contended. Knowing “upfront” what is explicitly covered within contracts signed with data vendors…