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As the “credit crunch” blame game plays itself out, some hefty criticism is being meted out to various quarters of the industry, not least the regulators and the ratings agencies for their alleged failure to act sooner to stem the tide of fall-out from the sub-prime crisis in the US. A lot of people are…
Evaluations Expert Rieger Slips Through Interactive Data’s Fingers
Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations’ James “JR” Rieger will not, as first announced, be joining Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data as vice president of evaluated services. Interactive Data was forced to issue a statement contradicting its earlier announcement when Rieger informed them he was pursuing another opportunity.
Swift Promises Controlled Migration To ISO 20022 CA Messages
ISO 20022 versions of the Swift messages that have been the foundation for much of the industry’s progress in automating corporate actions are to be made available by the end of Q4 2009 at the latest, under plans recently formulated by the co-operative. There will be a period of co-existence of ISO 20022 and the…
Leaper, Erman Boost Eagle’s Sales, Professional Services Capabilities
Bank of New York Mellon-owned Eagle Investment Systems has appointed Robert Leaper and Robert Erman to its senior management team. Leaper, senior vice president of global sales, will be responsible for extending Eagle’s business globally around its investment accounting, data management and performance measurement solutions. As senior vice president of professional services for Eagle, Erman…
Bank of New York Mellon Reviews Legacy Reference Data Assets
The Bank of New York Mellon is currently analysing the reference data assets inherited from both the Bank of New York and Mellon pre-merger, as part of its efforts to create a “best of breed” platform to support its clients going forward. A decision is expected by the end of this year on what the…
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…