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Fortent Releases Regulatory Information Management Tool
Fortent, a provider of information and technology to the risk and compliance market, has launched Fortent Inform, a tool designed to help financial institutions streamline their management of regulatory information. As a web-based, centralized source of compliance information and analysis, Fortent Inform provides a single source for US federal and state financial regulations and related…
ReferenceDataFactory Unveils Bloomberg Adaptive Client
Data integration vendor ReferenceDataFactory (founded by a team of ex-FTI/GoldenSource people) has launched RDF Adaptive Client for Bloomberg Back Office. The service oriented architecture (SOA)-based solution for integration across Bloomberg Back Office and Per Security is designed to enable standards-based distribution of the data enterprise-wide. This Adaptive Client joins similar offerings for Reuters and Interactive…
ISIDPlus Reaches Coverage of One Million Issues
ISIDPlus, a cross-reference securities identifier service targeted at asset managers, now covers one million issues globally. Established in 1989, ISIDPlus is a strategic alliance between Standard & Poor’s and Telekurs Financial designed to bring clarity to financial information, including securities identification, pricing and corporate action information. “ISIDPlus allows customers to view substantial information from various…
PolarLake Implements Packaged Ref Data Distribution Solution
Dublin-based integration vendor PolarLake has packaged up a reference data distribution solution, PolarLake RDD, which has already been deployed by a global asset manager. PolarLake RDD is designed to meet the requirement for the distribution of reference data in sell side, buy side, custodian and fund administration businesses, being implemented alongside solutions from EDM vendors…
Perfect Information Re-Launches Filings Database
Perfect Information has re-launched PI Filings, its database comprising more than 7 million company filings, after having given it a feature and interface makeover. “We consulted with our clients to find out what features we could add to Perfect Filings that would improve their productivity and sit with their existing workflow processes,” says Greg Simidian,…
Netik Close to Three Deals for Packaged Data Model
Netik is in the final phase of due diligence with three organizations for Netik Data Model Plus, a packaged-up version of the data model on which its Netik InterView data warehouse is based. The new product is aimed at large investment managers and asset servicers that have decided to build their own data warehouses –…
F&C Selects Citadel Associates’ CADIS for Data Management
F&C Asset Management has selected Citadel Associates’ CADIS as its data management platform. F&C is among a number of investment managers to take CADIS in recent months, with others including AMVESCAP, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (Reference Data Review, November 2006) and Schroders plc (Reference Data Review, February 2006).
Worried About IBEI and MiFID? Don’t Be… By Georg Eisel, Managing Director, WM Datenservice
As markets coalesce across systems and nations, the financial industry is faced with a new challenge. Thanks to new information technology, products and services are more integrated than ever. EU legislation, such as Basel II, the Transparency Directive and MiFID, is on the increase. It is now incumbent upon the financial industry to come to…
Daiwa Securities Extends XSP Software Agreement with Xcitek
Daiwa Securities America has extended its XSP software agreement with Xcitek for corporate actions processing. The Japanese-owned broker/dealer, which implemented the application in 2004, has renewed its contract for another three years. Xcitek will also accelerate its delivery of the Swift Standards Release (SR) 2007 Upgrade for XSP to clients. Xcitek will be delivering its…
Universal Business Entity Identification: An Impossible Dream? By Ken Price, CEO, Avox
A unique, international business entity identifier (IBEI). What’s so hard about that? We send shuttles into space, perform heart transplants and generate nuclear power. Why do we have such a hard time agreeing on the identity of a mining company in Johannesburg, a drug company headquartered in Basel or a hedge fund in the Cayman…