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Princeton Financial Optimizes Data Management of Hauck & Aufhaeuser in Record Time
Hauck & Aufhäuser Investment Gesellschaft S.A. (HAIG), a service provider for the conception and administration of funds, needed to replace their fund accounting system while maintaining operation of all business-critical systems. Due to Princeton Financial® Systems? (PFS) extensive experience in this area, they successfully supported HAIG in this project and simultaneously established a system architecture…
Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Improves the Value of Data for Business Processes; Maintains Data Quality Leadership
Trillium Software, a business of Harte-Hanks, continued to be recognised by industry analysts and global customers as a leading data quality solutions provider in 2010. With a focus on how data discovery, data cleansing and data quality impact business process and operations results, Trillium Software clients utilised the award-winning Trillium Software System to discover critical…
Broadridge’s Access Data Introduces Unique Tax Management Solution for Mutual Funds and ETFs
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced a unique tax management solution providing mutual fund managers and ETF sponsors access to data to accurately calculate state tax obligations. Broadridge’s Multi-State Tax Management solution, the first of its kind, collects, organises and tabulates shareholder account data across distribution channels in all 50 states, without divulging specific shareholder information….
Markit Calls for a Data Aggregator Within Swaps Data Repository Space
In its feedback to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) joint proposals regarding reporting to swaps data repositories, derivatives specialist vendor Markit suggests the industry needs a data aggregator in order to gather together the data spread across the various repositories in the market. This indicates that Markit may…
ANNA Highlights ISIN Developments and the Future of the ANNA Service Bureau and the IGI
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) is likely to be having a busy start to 2011: as well as providing its feedback on legal entity identification standards to the US Office of Financial Research at the end of January (OFR), the association has been working on a new version of ISO 6166, otherwise known…
Latency Monitoring Revs Up to Nanoseconds
“The Value of a Millisecond” – the title of a widely quoted April 2008 white paper by my esteemed industry colleague Larry Tabb – is now as obsolete a discussion as is the Renault F1 car that graced its cover. In the world of low latency – just as in F1 – three years of…
ICFR Meeting Calls for Increased Consistency of Supervisory Data Collection, Global Coordination
The International Centre for Financial Regulation’s (ICFR) recent meeting on macroprudential data scoping highlighted a number of concerns related to the collection of data for the monitoring of systemic risk, not least of which was the need for global coordination among regulators. Attendees to the meeting, which took place earlier this month in London under…
Ecclesiastical Insurance Group Selects DataFlux for Solvency II Data Management Implementation
DataFlux, a provider of data management solutions, today announced that Ecclesiastical Insurance Group, a commercial insurance specialist, has selected DataFlux technology to support the implementation of its data management programme. This initiative will help enable compliance with the Solvency II Directive data requirements and improve operational efficiency. The DataFlux Data Management Platform will be deployed…
Rates, Curves and Derived Data Management Remains a Neglected Area Following the Crisis, Says Xenomorph
Xenomorph, the analytics and data management solutions provider to global financial institutions, has today released its white paper ‘Rates, Curves and Surfaces – Golden Copy Management of Complex Datasets’. The white paper describes how, despite the increasing interest in risk management and tighter regulations following the crisis, the management of complex datasets – such as…
Daewoo Securities Selects Pricing Partners’ Financial Analytics Solutions
Pricing Partners announced today the signing of Daewoo Securities, the largest stock brokerage and investment banking firm in South Korea, as the its first South Korean client. The agreement was signed through its regional partner Belatos. Under this groundbreaking agreement, Daewoo Securities will deploy Pricing Partners’ entire financial pricing and analytics solutions, Price-it Library suite…