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Channel Capital Advisors Opts for Quantifi XL
Quantifi, provider of analytics and risk management solutions to the global credit markets, has sealed a deal with Channel Capital Advisors, creator of Europe’s first Credit Derivative Product Company, for its tool for pricing and analysing structured credit products. “Quantifi’s proven track record and recognised market experience were important factors in our selection process. We…
Ness Adds Corporate Actions Functionality to Financial Data Enterprise Solution
Ness Technologies has unveiled an enhanced version of its enterprise data management platform, Financial Data Enterprise (FDE), developed by Ness Innovative Business Services (Ness IBS). The new version, FDE 4.5, includes features such as processing of corporate actions, dynamic creation and set-up of instruments and asset classes, enhanced data quality management and streamlined workflows for…
XSP CTO Retzer Joins Alabama Information Technology Association Board
Daniel Retzer, managing director and chief technology officer at Birmingham, Alabama-based corporate actions software vendor XSP, has been named to the board of directors of the Alabama Information Technology Association (AITA).
Citisoft Says Data Management Key to Client Reporting
Investment management consulting firm Citisoft has published a white paper focusing on client reporting, and exploring the importance of data management in this context. One of its key findings is that the success of new or updated client reporting initiatives is closely related to the strength of investment managers’ data management systems. The Citisoft report…
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,…