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Vermeg Completes Swift Testing For Corporate Actions
MEGACOR, Vermeg’s end-to-end corporate actions solution, has completed the Swiftnet Testing and Certification Service Proof of Concept (POC) project for ISO 15022 corporate actions messages. MEGACOR has also been accredited, for the fifth consecutive year, with the SwiftReady Gold Label in the corporate actions category.
Telekurs Specifies Reference Data Changes for MiFID Compliance
Telekurs Financial has released further details of the reference data it is adding to its Valordata Feed (VDF) to help its clients comply with MiFID. These details add flesh to the bones of the announcement the vendor made late last year of its plans to address the data requirements of MiFID (Reference Data Review, November…
ICMA Issues Proposals to Publish Post-Trade Data Online
The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has issued proposals for consultation to launch two new pilot services that will see post-trade information and data on large liquid bond dealings published online. The new services would see all trades in large, liquid bonds published at the end of the business day. This would be made available…
Firms Shy From Cost of Migration To New Ref Data Codes for MiFID
The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has published the responses to its public consultation on the use of reference data standard codes in transaction reporting under MiFID. By press time however CESR had not published its final decisions on the codes to be used, so it is as yet unclear whether the responses will…
Euroclear NIEC to Serve as New Dutch National Numbering Agent
Euroclear NIEC (Nederlands Interprofessioneel Effectencentrum NIEC) is to serve as the national numbering agent for newly issued securities in the Netherlands. The transfer of this service from Euronext Amsterdam will take place in accordance with the rules of the Association of National Numbering Agencies for role transfers. More than 70 per cent of newly created…
Standard & Poor’s Hires Elisabeth Nygren to its Data & Information Services Business
Standard & Poor’s has appointed Elisabeth Nygren associate director of marketing, Europe. Elisabeth joins S&P from The Mergermarket Group, the mergers and acquisitions news and intelligence service, where she was global head of communications.
KLP Implements GAIN Platform For Multi-Data Feed Processing
Norwegian insurance and financial services provider KLP Kapitalforvaltning is using the GAIN platform from Austria’s AIM Software for the integration of data from vendors including Reuters (DataScope) and Bloomberg (Per Security) into its core SimCorp system, after a two-week implementation. According to Frank Maltais, head of pre-sales at AIM Software, KLP contacted the vendor last…
Saxo to Automate CA Processing With SmartStream TLM
Copenhagen-based Saxo Bank, provider of an online trading platform for foreign exchange, currency products and other securities, has purchased TLM Corporate Actions from SmartStream Technologies.
Omgeo Strengthens Management Team to Support Global Growth
Omgeo has promoted Timothy Keady from executive director, global sales to managing director, global sales and relationship management. He has also joined Omgeo’s executive team. Lee Cutrone, managing director of industry relations, will now also oversee Omgeo’s global marketing function. Martin Brennan takes on the new role of managing director, business development for the Asia-Pacific…
Quintillion Chooses Markit for OTC Derivatives Valuations
Dublin-based fund administrator Quintillion, founded in 2006, has partnered with Markit for OTC derivatives valuation provision. Quintillion runs its fund administration business on front and middle office technology from Paladyne and the Advent Geneva accounting system. Tim Barker, executive vice president and head of valuations at Markit, says this relationship will broaden the vendor’s reach…