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iSpheres Hires Burgos from SunGard STP Area
Tick data management provider iSpheres has hired John Burgos as senior sales engineer. Burgos, with experience in networks, STP and payments systems, was previously with SunGard. He will support New York area clients.
Mergent’s BondViewer Offers Evaluated Pricing for U.S. Fixed Income
New York-based Mergent Inc., a subsidiary of Xinhua Finance, has released BondViewer, an on-demand web-based system for accessing the company’s database of U.S. taxable and municipal bonds, retail notes, U.S. agency issues and Treasury notes. Features include previous-day evaluated pricing for each bond provided by Mergent’s independent end-of-day evaluation service, and performance tracking. Terms and…
Columba, Telekurs Team Up To Supply CA Data to LCH.Clearnet
LCH.Clearnet has implemented a corporate actions data platform using a consolidated source of international corporate actions content from Telekurs Financial combined with Columba’s web-based, knowledge management platform. This customizable platform allows Telekurs Financial’s data and LCH.Clearnet’s in-house future events data to be aggregated, manipulated and distributed internally.
CheckFree Adds EDI CA Data Feed; Automates ISO 20022 Data Dictionaries
CheckFree Corp.’s CheckFree eVent corporate actions automation platform has created an interface to the ISO 15022-compliant corporate actions data feed from Exchange Data International (EDI). EDI’s corporate actions data is already integrated into a number of vendor systems, including, most recently, Mergent’s EventsData.com and BvDEP’s Osiris. Meanwhile, CheckFree is automating the way Message Broker, the…
J.P. Morgan Securities Upgrades CA System
J.P. Morgan Securities has gone live with the latest release of Xcitek’s XSP corporate actions automation and processing system. J.P. Morgan Securities has been using XSP for five years now and says the new version will be used to expand its use of ISO functionality, eliminating the need for manual diary entries. The firm will…
Reuters DataScope to Integrate with CicadaRisk’s RiskGrid
Reuters has forged an alliance with CicadaRisk to supply reference and historical data from its Reuters DataScope service to CicadaRisk’s new RiskGrid risk management system. The Reuters DataScope data is to be integrated within RiskGrid, which is targeted at the buy-side community. The system can be deployed on an ASP, hosted or on-site basis.
Capco Expands Global ETF Coverage To, Erm, North America and Europe
Capco Reference Data Services (CRDS), a managed reference and market data services provider, has announced it has significantly expanded its coverage of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in its Global ETF Monitor (GEM) product. An ETF is a basket of stocks designed to track an index, yet it trades like a single stock and GEM provides ETF-constituent…
Markit Launches Valuations Service for Inflation Derivatives
Mark-to-market pricing and asset valuations group Markit has launched a valuations service for inflation derivatives covering UK, US, French and European zero coupon swaps. The service, part of Markit’s Totem Service aimed at sell-side risk managers and product controllers, provides independent verification of mark-to-market prices for UK RPI (Retail Price Index), U.S. CPI (Consumer Price…
Hermes Mulls BNY Outsourced Data Management Proposal
Asset manager Hermes Pensions Management Ltd. is considering using Bank of New York to provide a range of outsourced investment operations services, including data management. BNY’s proposal calls for the migration of Hermes’ operational functions to be migrated to the BNY SmartSource platform and centralized outsourcing business model.
IR Specialist EquityStory To Acquire DGAP Service
Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Ad-hoc-Publizitaet (DGAP), which provides electronic distribution of ad-hoc disclosures, is being acquired by EquityStory, an online investor relations specialist. DGAP was set up in 1996 by Deutsche Boerse, Reuters and Vereinigte Wirtschaftsdienste (VWD) to introduce electronic distribution of ad-hoc disclosures in Germany; it also publishes corporate news, directors’ dealings and press releases….