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FT Interactive Data Expands Fair Value to European Funds

FT Interactive Data is making its Fair Value Information Service, until now only available in the North American market, available to European domiciled funds. The company says that three clients are already using the service in Europe. The service provides users with information that can be used to estimate a price that would likely prevail…

Trust Company of Illinois To Track Class Actions

Trust Company of Illinois has selected Xcitek’s Class Actions (XCA) service to address the growing burden of tracking and potentially collecting from securities class actions. Doug Eyles, head of investments at Trust Company of Illinois, said, “After a brief trial period, we decided that XCA could help us to better track developments that might impact…

Reuters Datascope Deal with Odyssey

Reuters has secured another partner software provider in Odyssey Asset Management Systems for its Datascope reference data service. The data will be made available as an optional packaged adaptor via Odyssey’s Triple’A portfolio management system, its Advisor relationship management system and Nexus, its centralised repository for financial data.

AIM Gets Into Corporate Actions

AIM Software has introduced a new module to manage corporate actions data within its GAIN data management platform. The Gain Corporate Actions Dairy System (CADS) will manage corporate actions data delivered in ISO 15022 or other formats. The data will be sourced from a variety of providers including Swift, Telekurs Financial, Reuters, FT Interactive Data,…

Citadel Becomes Charter Client For Accenture Outsourced MRDS

After much speculation, Accenture has revealed its first client for its Managed Reference Data Service (MRDS) outsourcing solution in hedge fund Citadel Investment Group. Additional clients are expected to follow in the coming months. Citadel, with $12 billion under management, has signed a 10-year agreement to outsource “key aspects” of its data management processes. This…

Reuters Targets Bond Evaluations, Enhancing Frequency, Coverage

Although long trailing its rival Bloomberg in the fixed income arena, Reuters is aiming to utilise its acquisitions – namely EJV and Telerate – to bolster its content offerings. Backed by significant investment, Reuters has been developing enhancements to its fixed income evaluations service resulting in the introduction of higher frequency in evaluated pricing updates,…

Mahoney Changes to Consulting Role for Cicada; Tse, Trostinsky Join

More changes at Cicada. Carole Mahoney, former vice president of European sales at Cicada, has left and taken on an external sales consulting role, working with both Cicada and CounterpartyLink. In this new position, Carole will focus on market intelligence and lead generation activities. Michael Tse has joined Cicada as sales liaison executive, providing pre-sales…

IDC Shuffles Senior Management

Interactive Data Corp., parent company of FT Interactive Data, has implemented a new corporate structure. John L. King has been elevated from chief operating officer of FT Interactive to occupy the same role across all IDC’s businesses, reporting to Stuart Clark, IDC’s president and chief executive officer. FT Interactive Data’s data delivery products president Raymond…

Checkfree Appoints Hoffman, Thomas, Belluche to Senior Roles

Checkfree has appointed three new senior-level executives. Preston Hoffman, a long-time employee, heads up the global team as senior vice president and managing director for the securities channel, reporting to Checkfree software executive vice president and general manager Randy McCoy. Paul Thomas, from Surecomp and previously ADP Wilco, joins Checkfree as vice president and sales…

Wachovia Banks on Building Blocks Approach To Support Cohesive Reference Data Strategy

Believing a cohesive reference data strategy will give it a competitive edge as well as improving efficiencies as the Corporate and Investment Banking division grows, Wachovia Corp. last year embarked on a three-year initiative to develop strategic building blocks. The aim is to create a solid foundation, much of which will be supporting reference data,…