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Swift Unveils Free SEPA Data Registration Service
Swift has opened the SwiftDirectories Data Update service, a secure and confidential website where financial institutions can maintain their SEPA-related data. Access to this website is open to any appointed employee of a financial institution. Users can register online and update payments-related data belonging to their financial institution whenever required. From the end of December…
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As the “credit crunch” blame game plays itself out, some hefty criticism is being meted out to various quarters of the industry, not least the regulators and the ratings agencies for their alleged failure to act sooner to stem the tide of fall-out from the sub-prime crisis in the US. A lot of people are…
Evaluations Expert Rieger Slips Through Interactive Data’s Fingers
Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations’ James “JR” Rieger will not, as first announced, be joining Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data as vice president of evaluated services. Interactive Data was forced to issue a statement contradicting its earlier announcement when Rieger informed them he was pursuing another opportunity.
Swift Promises Controlled Migration To ISO 20022 CA Messages
ISO 20022 versions of the Swift messages that have been the foundation for much of the industry’s progress in automating corporate actions are to be made available by the end of Q4 2009 at the latest, under plans recently formulated by the co-operative. There will be a period of co-existence of ISO 20022 and the…
Leaper, Erman Boost Eagle’s Sales, Professional Services Capabilities
Bank of New York Mellon-owned Eagle Investment Systems has appointed Robert Leaper and Robert Erman to its senior management team. Leaper, senior vice president of global sales, will be responsible for extending Eagle’s business globally around its investment accounting, data management and performance measurement solutions. As senior vice president of professional services for Eagle, Erman…
Bank of New York Mellon Reviews Legacy Reference Data Assets
The Bank of New York Mellon is currently analysing the reference data assets inherited from both the Bank of New York and Mellon pre-merger, as part of its efforts to create a “best of breed” platform to support its clients going forward. A decision is expected by the end of this year on what the…
McGee Suffers Same Fate as Simon as Corero Restructuring Makes CEO Role Redundant
Jarlath McGee has agreed to resign his role as chief executive and board member at Corero, formerly Mondas, the troubled provider of among other solutions the Radica CAPS corporate actions processing system. McGee had himself earlier engineered the removal of Tim Simon, Mondas’s founder. This move follows Corero’s restructuring into two operating divisions – financial…
LSE Collaborates with FOW TRADEdata to Automate, Expand Allocation of Sedols for Futures and Options
The London Stock Exchange has entered into a strategic collaboration with FOW TRADEdata, aggregator and distributor of reference data for exchange traded derivatives, with the aim of bringing Sedol instrument codes fully into the futures and options market. As a result of the relationship, Sedol codes, in addition to other identification codes used within the…
OpenLink Adds Markit, Bloomberg Interfaces in New Release of Findur
OpenLink, a provider of cross-asset trading, risk management and operations processing software solutions, has released Version 8.1 of its Findur credit derivatives trading platform. Among other enhancements, the new version offers an interface to derivatives data services from Markit Group as well as access to instrument data from Bloomberg. The Findur platform performs a broad…
Northern Trust to Provide Data Management To Vontobel under Outsourcing Arrangement
Northern Trust has successfully migrated the non-portfolio management related investment operations – including data management – of Vontobel Asset Management, the New York-based investment management subsidiary of Switzerland’s Vontobel Holding, to Northern Trust’s investment operations outsourcing platform. As well as handling the investment manager’s data management operations, Northern Trust will provide post-trade execution support, trade…