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Progress Real Time’s DataXtend Provides Data Integrity Capability

Progress Real Time, best known for its software for handling real-time complex event processing particularly in the electronic trading environment, has positioned a new product offering to exploit opportunities in the reference data environment. Progress Real Time this month launched its DataXtend line of infrastructure technologies, comprising a Replication Engine (RE) module and a Caching…

Custodian Mellon Dives Into Outsourcing Of Reference Data Management Services

Large custodian Mellon Financial Corp. has previously dipped its toe in the water of reference data manage-ment through its acquisition of Eagle Investment Systems in 2001. Now it is getting ready to dive in with a packaged reference data management outsourcing solution targeted at investment management firms. Brian Buzzelli, IMS product management, reference data, says,…

Standard & Poor’s Appoints James Price to Senior European Role

James Price has been appointed director of business development and marketing for Standard & Poor’s European Securities Services. Based in London, he reports to Krishna Biltoo, managing director of European data and information and oversees a team of five. Price’s main focus will be to raise Standard & Poor’s profile in the credit markets. He…

A-Team Group/Reuters Survey: Bond Evaluations Gaining Value?

Placing a value on portfolios of fixed-income securities has always been a tricky business. Because of the securities’ complexity and, often, illiquidity, managers have a hard time sourcing reliable pricing. The U.S. has relied on evaluated pricing services for the past 20 years or so. Finally, it seems, Europe is beginning to follow suit. A-Team…

Growth Spurs Senior Management Shuffle at Xenomorph

Xenomorph, a provider of enterprise-wide data management platforms, has reorganized senior management. The company cites strong growth in credit data analytics, tick data storage and derivatives data management. Under the reshuffle, Brian Sentance becomes CEO and Greg Johnson becomes COO. Chris Budgen, Matthew Skinner and Mark Woodgate, all founder directors, are now chief technical architect,…

Latest MiFID Postponement Merely Delays the Inevitable

‘News’ that the widely feared, little-understood EU Directive on Markets in Financial Instruments – affectionately known as MiFID – may be delayed again to November 2007, hasn’t been greeted with too much in the way of protest. The original delay pushed implementation of the directive back to April 2007 from a year earlier. The latest…

SunGard AddVantage Adds Interface to FTID Security Master

SunGard’s AddVantage, an asset management, trust and accounting and securities processing solution, has added an interface to XML Market Information Query Response System from FT Interactive Data (FTID). The interface is designed to help mutual customers facilitate the set up of equity and fixed income security master information provided by FTID from within the AddVantage…

Bank of America to Expand Use Of Teradata Data Warehouse

Bank of America is expanding its use of Teradata data warehouse in order to address new business initiatives requiring analysis of enterprise information. Teradata, a division of NCR Corp., provides enterprise data warehousing, analytic applications and data warehousing services.

Capco Launches Global Equities Dividend Forecasting Service

Capco Reference Data Services has launched Global Dividend Forecasting (Global DivCast), a managed data solution that provides a consolidated source of dividend projection data for equities. Features include a forecast of cash flows for a specific security, cash flows calculated using historical and current dividends over a period of two to four years, up to…

Information Mosaic Leads Scores In CityCompass Benchmarking

CityCompass held its third year of the B.I.S.S awards based on its benchmarking of corporate actions systems. Information Mosaic achieved the gold accreditation with the highest all round scores recorded over the past three years for its Cama corporate actions solution, and for the first time in all three industry sectors of broking, custody and…