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Goal Acquires Securities Class Actions Specialist Magenta One
Global Operations and Administration Limited (GOAL), a provider of tax reclamation services, has completed the acquisition of Magenta One, a securities class actions specialist. As a wholly owned subsidiary of GOAL, the business will trade under the new name of Magenta One Global Limited, operating out of GOAL’s headquarters in the City of London. David…
Financial Tradeware Facilitates GlobeTax’s StatRate Via Swiftnet
Financial Tradeware and tax reclamation specialist GlobeTax have formed a partnership to provide GlobeTax’s StatRate, an automatic data feed which provides financial institutions with market by market statutory withholding tax rate data (Reference Data Review, September 2006), via Swiftnet FileAct. GlobeTax created its StatRate service based on Swiftnet FileAct to deliver daily file based tax…
Financial Tradeware Appoints CIG Business Partner for North America
Financial Tradeware has partnered with New York-based Computer Intelligence Group (CIG) to bring its solutions to the North American and Caribbean regions. Under the terms of the agreement CIG, an IT consulting and services company that also recently partnered with reference data specialist AIM Software (Reference Data Review, January 2007), will market, install and support…
MIS Offers Case Management Tool Based on Cicada Technology
Cicada’s Profiler Solutions division is deploying components of its Profiler customer due diligence/KYC software to develop a case management tool for McDonald Information Service (MIS), provider of information on the reliability of retail and institutional accounts to more than 4000 financial institutions worldwide. The tool, called MIS CM, will be provided as an ASP in…
IntellectSpace Releases FN Knowledge Mapping
IntellectSpace has introduced IntellectSpace FN Knowledge Mapping, a solution for investment banks and private equity firms that automatically discovers, analyzes, and visually maps key relationships among companies and people. IntellectSpace FN is an engine that draws on the SEC disclosures and corporate announcements to graphically represent the underlying relationships that can reveal both risk and…
DPC Data Supports Perfect Information’s US Business
Perfect Information and DPC Data have formed a partnership to provide enhanced support and services for Perfect Information customers in the US via DPC’s data-related outsourcing services, following a soft launch of its Perfect Search product. Perfect Information, provider of corporate data for investors tracking equity and bond information, as well as corporate updates, is…
ING Investment Management Builds MS-Based Ref Data System
ING Investment Management Americas, the US investment arm of ING Group, has used Microsoft technology to implement a database to help its employees manage, access and analyse investment data from a range of data sources. Using Microsoft Windows Server System products including SQL Server 2005, .Net Framework 2.0 and ASP.Net, ING has created the Relative…
The Dynamics of Change By Gert Raeves, vice president, business solutions at GoldenSource
Change is like the common cold – there is a lot of it about. The interesting question is not if we are in a period of change: everything is always changing, in the same way that everyone is always busy –the constancy of change is a particularly tired cliché of business life. The better question…
The maxim of pragmatism
The great thing about standards is – as the old adage has it – there are so many of them to choose from. And yet, there never seem to be enough. Last month we charted the industry’s ongoing frustration at the lack of a standard international business entity identifier which, in the view of some,…
Bank of New York Adds Valuations for European Swaptions, FX Options and OTC Equity Options
The Bank of New York has expanded its independent valuation service for OTC derivatives to include European swaptions, foreign exchange options and OTC equity options, in addition to the interest rate swaps and credit default swaps already covered. The bank is currently undergoing a merger with Mellon Financial Corporation, which recently announced the availability of…