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Broadridge to Target Counterparty Data
Having teamed with GoldenSource and IBM for the initial launch of its global managed reference data solution to provide instrument reference data (Reference Data Review, May 2007) Broadridge Financial Solutions, formerly ADP Brokerage Services Group, is leveraging the expertise and functionality that exists in the GoldenSource product to launch a counterparty data service in Q1…
Web Services Integration Ties with XSP for Automated Reclaims, Makes Progress with Data Hub Solution
UK-based Web Services Integration and US-headquartered XSP have forged a partnership under which they have integrated their solutions for tax reclamation and corporate actions processing respectively, in order to automate the withholding tax reclaim process within the corporate actions lifecycle. The integration has been eased by the fact that Web Services Integration’s Xceptor Tax Hub…
Standing Settlement Instructions: Bringing the Poor Relation of Reference Data into the Fold
Awareness of the fact that missing or inaccurate standing settlement instructions (SSIs) are a major inhibitor to true straight-through processing (STP) is as long-standing as the industry’s focus on STP itself. Problems with SSIs are still the biggest single cause of reference data-related trade fails, which themselves are the second biggest cause of fails behind…
Wiener Börse Taps Interactive Data To Support MiFID Offer
Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data business is to supply reference data to Austrian securities exchange Wiener Börse to support its new MiFID OTC transaction reporting facility. Interactive Data’s MiFID related reference data identifies trade venues and their types by location codes, the most relevant market for an instrument, whether an instrument is within…
AIM Software and Italian Partner Implement GAIN at Arner Bank
Lugano, Switzerland-based Arner Bank is implementing AIM Software’s data management environment GAIN for the integration of price, static and corporate actions data provided by Bloomberg and Telekurs Financial. The project is slated for completion in September, with go-live planned for October. Arner Bank is implementing GAIN in conjunction with Galileo – the Security Master File,…
West LB in UAT with Asset Control’s AC Plus, Plans To Go Live for Managing WM, Bloomberg in October
The operations group of German bank West LB AG has begun the roll-out of Asset Control’s AC Plus data management solution to first replace a legacy mainframe system managing feeds from WM and Bloomberg, with a view to using AC Plus to replace an inhouse built centralised data management solution in the longer term. The…
Anarchy in the UK (at Least) as Market Participants Fret Over BIC Inadequacy, Future of IBEI as Entity ID
The operations group of German bank West LB AG has begun the roll-out of Asset Control’s AC Plus data management solution to first replace a legacy mainframe system managing feeds from WM and Bloomberg, with a view to using AC Plus to replace an inhouse built centralised data management solution in the longer term. The…
Mellon’s Buzzelli Takes Fund Admin Experience to Reuters
Reuters’ ability to meet the needs of fund administrators and their clients for reference data and pricing services has received a boost from the addition of Brian Buzzelli, formerly vice president and product manager for outsourcing services at the Bank of New York Mellon, as a business manager in its Enterprise Information division in New…
QED Unveils Single Back Office Data Source for Asset Managers
In a bid to help its institutional investment clients reduce the cost and complexity of managing data sources, New Jersey headquartered QED Financial Systems has launched QED Data Connection, a solution designed to enable users of its investment accounting system to access a range of middle and back office data from multiple vendors via a…
BoNY Mellon Upgrades Investment Analytics Product Line…
Bank of New York Mellon Asset Servicing has enhanced its Investment Analytics product line, which provides institutional investors with tools to evaluate and oversee a portfolio’s performance, structure, risk exposure and compliance. The enhancements involve expanded data coverage and improved data quality in three areas: sub-prime risk analytics, fixed income derivatives and short term securities,…