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Interactive Data Increases Coverage of Euro ABS/MBS…

Interactive Data’s Pricing and Reference Data business has added new capabilities which will increase coverage of its evaluations for European asset-backed securities (ABS) and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) to approximately 3000 tranches. Interactive Data’s new models for providing evaluations will enhance European coverage of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), as well as a whole range of other…

FIMA Speakers Preach Pragmatic Approach to Data Quality

One of the most memorable pronouncements at FIMA 2007 in New York last month came from a speaker from a major investment management firm who, when asked from the floor how big a problem it is for the data management industry that there are still no global standards for security and entity identification, replied: “Unnecessary…

Swift Imposes Structure on MiFID Transaction Reporting Data

Swift is close to completing an ISO 20022 formatted transaction reporting message which it plans to pilot for three months on its network prior to launching a commercially available solution by the end of October in readiness for the November 1 Markets in Financial Services Directive (MiFID) implementation deadline. As an ISO standard, the message…

NewSouth Capitalises on Advent Corporate Actions Upgrade

NewSouth Capital Management has implemented the newly enhanced version of Advent Corporate Actions (ACA) from Advent Software, as well as migrating to Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX). NewSouth Capital Management, which manages approximately $1.4 billion in assets, has been a client of Advent Software since June 1986, when it was one of Advent’s first 100 clients…

New Asset Control CEO Phil Lynch Plans to Build “Ecosystem” Around Data Management Suite

The combination of Asset Control and TAP Solutions creates a data management product line-up capable of meeting the requirements of financial institutions of all sizes globally, according to the new Asset Control CEO Phil Lynch. For larger institutions, the merged systems offer the prospect of an integrated solution for centralised data management supported by downstream…

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.