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Credit Suisse Asset Management Signs 5-Year Deal with Xcitek
In a five-year deal with Xcitek to automate its corporate actions processing, Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) in New York, part of Zurich-based Credit Suisse Group, will use eTRAN (Electronic Tracking Response and Notifications) and the ISO 15022-Compliant Messaging Module of XSP for automated client event notification and response capture of elections. Using these tools,…
Credaris Chooses Markit For Credit Data Services
Meanwhile, Credaris Portfolio Management, an independent investment management platform, has chosen pricing and valuations vendor Markit for its credit data services. Credaris, which has EUR 1.3 billion in assets under management, provides tailored solutions to European financial institutions aiming to generate high risk-adjusted returns from their credit market asset allocations. Credaris will receive Markit’s credit…
ValueLink adds PFPC International as Client for Bond Pricing
PFPC International Dublin has signed up for ValueLink Information Services’ daily closing pricing service with validation reporting. PFPC will use ValueLink’s multiple bond feeds, which, in addition to the standard dual validation, allows clients to switch between vendors on individual assets in order to obtain the latest quotes. PFPC also benefits from ValueLink’s report service,…
Telekurs Adds FSL Historical Global Corporate Actions
Telekurs has added corporate actions data covering the European and Australasian markets, sourced from Financial Software Ltd.’s (FSL) capital gains tax solution, CGix. CGix, currently used by more than 50 U.K. financial institutions, will be delivered via the Telekurs iD platform.
LSE Information Services Revenues Rise 6%; SMF Licenses Total 1,000
Information Services provided a bright spot in the London Stock Exchange results for the six months ended September 30. Information services’ revenue rose 6% to £45.1 million, contributing 33% of total turnover. The exchange’s new SEDOL Masterfile service, which provides unique identification for securities on a global basis, has now more than 1,000 licenses sold….
Standard & Poor’s Strikes Global Deal with Soliton
Standard & Poor’s has forged a global collaboration agreement with Soliton. Under the terms of the agreement, data management systems provider Soliton will manage the acquisition and integration of Standard & Poor’s securities data and reference data for financial services industry clients. This will enable customers to automate the acquisition, integration, and management of Standard…
S&P Teams with Markit to Offer Entity-Issue Link for Credit Swaps
Following a custom implementation at Rabobank International, Standard & Poor’s has launched Reference Entity Link, aimed at the credit default swaps marketplace. The service, which draws upon Markit’s Reference Entity Database (RED) provides full issuer and issue coverage behind each CLIP code. CLIP codes – named for Cusip-Linked Entity Markit Code (Reference Data Review, March…
Survey Finds 75% of Firms Plan More Reference Data Automation
The more things change the more they stay the same. This seems to be the overriding message in the results of the second annual AIM Global Data and Risk Management Survey. As with the previous year’s findings, the 2005 survey results showed that financial institutions all over the world are undertaking considerable efforts to deepen…
J.P. Morgan Adopts Central Reference Data Hub To Support Global Credit Trading Operation
J.P. Morgan Chase is building a business-aligned reference data hub in support of the major reengineering of its credit trading operation onto a single platform. The hub – essentially a central global hub for credit reference data – will commingle corporate data, vendor data and business-specific data into a single, unified service available to all…
UMB Bank Subscribes to Xcitek for Securities Class Actions
UMB Bank has selected Xcitek’s new Class Actions (XCA) service to address the issue of identifying, tracking and responding to securities class actions. The bank already subscribed to other Xcitek products, including Corporate Actions, Cost Basis and XSP. XCA, launched in July, is a daily updated web-based service allowing users to match current or past…