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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…
DPC DATA Adds New Location in Philippines for Securities-Related Data Outsourcing
DPC DATA has launched a new facility in metropolitan Manila to support growth in its data outsourcing business. A vendor of securities data, DPC DATA also provides offshore data management services. The new location brings greater capacity for data processing, strategic knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) and custom IT development, it reckons. The new location is…
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,…
PolarLake Apponts Brazel as Chairman
PolarLake has appointed Patrick Brazel, an industry veteran of 25 years, as chairman. Brazel is also chairman of GoldTier.
Rimes Technologies Adds Russell Global Indexes As a Data Partner
Rimes Technologies, an integrator of financial information services, has added Russell Global Indexes to its portfolio of data partners. This family of global stock indexes, comprising of more than 10,000 securities divided into a family of indexes which cover 22 regions and 63 countries, is now available through Rimes’ integration platform, offering a set of…
Williams Departs as U.K. MD of Citadel Associates
Jean Williams, U.K. managing director of buy side data management solutions vendor Citadel Associates, is no longer with the company. At press time, her whereabouts could not be ascertained.