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Eagle Lands Legacy Replacement Deal at Boutique Firm Trilogy
US-based Trilogy Global Advisors, a boutique emerging markets equities fund manager, is implementing technology from Eagle Investment Systems to help manage its portfolio. The Eagle suite of products will enable Trilogy to retire its legacy accounting system. According to John Lehner, president of Eagle Investment Systems, there are a couple of reasons for Trilogy’s decision…
Avox Includes Fitch Credit Opinions in Counterparty Data
Avox and global ratings agency Fitch Ratings have signed a co-operation agreement to enable linkages to Fitch company identifiers and credit opinions within Avox’s counterparty data offering. Avox supplements its clients’ data records with information from Fitch Ratings as part of its counterparty data validation, cleansing and maintenance service. Ken Price, CEO of Avox, says:…
Reuters Launches Counterparty Service, Ties with Complinet
A month or two later than originally planned Reuters has taken the wraps off its counterparty data service, launching Reuters DataScope for Counterparty and Compliance and trumpeting a pre-launch customer signing and advanced talks with a number of other potential clients. The vendor has also unveiled its specialist partner for embedded sanctions lists as Complinet….
EDM Council Takes Baby Steps Towards Ontology and Metrics
The EDM Council has recently taken steps towards achieving two key requirements for industry-wide implementation of enterprise data management – a standardised data ontology and data quality metrics. Members of the EDM Council are participating in a working group formed by the DTCC to define and standardise the data terms and definitions included in its…
Reuters to Lose Enterprise Information Head Kevin Bradshaw
In a move that has caught the reference data community by surprise, Kevin Bradshaw has resigned his role as global head of Enterprise Information at Reuters and will leave the company shortly. It is understood Bradshaw is moving to a different industry. Reuters offers no comment yet on whether he will be replaced by an…
CUSIP Service Bureau Launches CUSIP-Based ISIN Look-up Service
The CUSIP Service Bureau (CSB) has launched a web-based CSB-ISIN Look-up Service, which provides unique CUSIP-based International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) identifiers for more than 3.6 million securities and their issuers. This new web-based capability makes it easier for institutions to identify securities issued by the CSB and efficiently trade, settle and clear securities by…
Who’s Ready for SEPA? By Andrew Foulds, head of client services, CB.Net
As the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) deadline looms, there is a sense of panic growing among organisations, many of which are not prepared for the significant changes that will be required for payment processes. While corporates may be aware of the EU Directive and SEPA’s impending 2008 deadline, many have yet to devise a…
… While Quantifi Extends Asset-Backed Securities Valuations
Quantifi Solutions has extended the functionality of its credit derivatives valuation software to include the ability to price correlation products on asset-backed securities (ABS) such as tranches on the ABX index (TABX). Quantifi’s new tools for valuing TABX and tranches on baskets of ABCDS build upon existing modelling tools for synthetic CDOs on corporate credits…
Mellon, Eagle, Telekurs Team up To Integrate VDF into PACE
Mellon Financial has selected the Valordata Feed (VDF) from Telekurs Financial as part of its enterprise-wide global reference data infrastructure. Mellon is using VDF to integrate a range of securities reference data – including security descriptions, ID cross-reference and corporate actions – into Mellon’s Eagle PACE data management platform, provided by Mellon subsidiary Eagle Investment…
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…