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Markit Hires Meldrum for Acquisitions & Strategic Direction
Markit Group has hired Will Meldrum as director of acquisitions and strategic development, pointing to further acquisitive activity by the credit markets pricing vendor. Meldrum previously worked at Deutsche Bank for four years as director and head of global markets strategic investments. In this role, he was involved in the original sale of the collaborating…
Dublin’s Dexia Rolls out Telekurs iD for Data Access
Dexia Fund Services Dublin has rolled out Telekurs iD, the intelligent display product from Telekurs Financial to its fund accountants. They will now be able to verify prices and corporate actions as well as static and cross-reference information on security master files from its existing implementation of Telekurs’ Valor Datafeed (VDF).
Mondas Interfaces with the DTCC’s Corporate Actions Service
Mondas has built an interface between its Radica CAPS corporate actions solution and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC’s) Global Corporate Action (GCA) Validation Service.
Volante Technologies Partners with Vitria
Volante Technologies has combined its data-centric solutions, including management of Swift, ISO 15022 and ISO 20022 messaging standards, with the business process integration solution BusinessWare offered by Vitria. The combined offering has already been deployed at three financial institutions. Volante’s technology enables the rapid identification of errors at the source, enhancing BusinessWare’s capacity to manage…
Aegon Purchases Citadel Data Management Platform Cadis
Aegon Asset Management UK has purchased Citadel Associates’ Cadis data management platform. Aegon employs around 250 people in its Edinburgh head office. This deal follows similar data management implementations with Russell/Mellon (Reference Data Review, April 2005), Newton and Insight Investments (Reference Data Review, August 2005).
Markit Adopts and Enhances ICB Codes for Credit Markets
Markit is adopting the Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB) from Dow Jones Indexes and FTSE Group. ICB will be implemented across Markit’s entire range of entities across all asset classes. Markit’s involvement will also help to enhance ICB’s coverage of the current 40,000 equities by expanding into around 5,000 credit default swap reference entities and bond…
Case Study: Standard Bank Centralises Client Information
South Africa’s Standard Bank is expanding its international franchise, and in order to support its international efforts, the bank has reengineered its reference data operations. A key project undertaken over the past year has been to put together a global Client Information File (CIF) in order to provide a single, global view of its clients…
Benchmarking Reference Data Highlighted at Azdex Event
Azdex has risen to prominence in the past year or so, given its activities in the hot space of business entity data. The vendor is in the process of securing financial backing from the Deutsche Borse, and recently held a well-attended event in London focused on ‘benchmarking business entity reference data quality’. The event featured…
Credit Suisse First Boston’s Data Group Define Processes For Global Entity Data Client
Credit Suisse First Boston’s (CSFB) reference data group has been working to define processes for managing client entity data globally. The project was driven by a decision within CSFB to centralise the client account opening process three years ago, which highlighted the need for a consistent approach to managing the data attributes related to each…
Canadian Depository Offers Direct Access to Reference Data
The Canadian Depository for Securities (CDS) – the world’s oldest securities depository – is gearing up to begin distribution of information services beyond its membership base. The depository is introducing direct availability of its corporate actions and other relevant data it collects to non-members. CDS handles all Canadian debt and equity markets, including private issues,…