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Swift Proposes Standard Protocol for EU Clearing & Settlement

Swift has published a consultation paper outlining proposals for a standardised communication protocol for European clearing and settlement. This is in response to the Giovannini Group report to improve efficiency of EU cross border clearing and settlement. Specifically Swift is aiming to define a solution for Barrier 1 of the 15 identified barriers to efficient…

Baseline Capital Expands Mortgage Data for Basel II Credit Risk

Baseline Capital has expanded its data pool of mortgage data, which it is using to build models required for an Advanced-IRB approach to Basel II credit risk. The additional data comes from eight U.K. mortgage lenders that have agreed to contribute their data.

Norex Exchanges Adopt GICS Classification Standard

The Nordic and Baltic stock exchanges strategic alliance, known as Norex, is this month adopting the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) as its official security classification standard. GICS was jointly developed by Standard & Poor’s and MSCI in 1999 in response to what they saw as a need for a more accurate, complete and standard…

SmartStream Technologies Signs Up Two Clients for Corona 7.0

SmartStream Technologies has signed up two clients for its new Corona 7.0 reconciliation and exceptions management product. Vseobecna uverova banka (VUB) of the Slovak Republic is implementing the solution to be hosted on VUB’s mainframe in its head office in Bratislava. Citibank Belgium has also recently upgraded to the new product version.

Reuters Pulls Together Reference Data; Real-Time Feeds for Enterprise Solution

With the growth rates of Reuters Datascope business “turning heads” internally, its manager has now been charged with taking over Reuters’ real-time data feeds business which will be merged with the reference data business under the “Reuters Enterprise Information” banner. The move marks recognition by Reuters of the way its clients are increasingly doing business:…

Cicada Launches Next Generation Composer with Workflow Module

Cicada has launched a next generation version of its reference data management solution, adding workflow management to the data management architecture. The new Composer Workplace module aims to provide business analysts with a greater degree of quality control and efficiency through either ‘out of the box’ or customized workflows to facilitate data review processes and…

The Appliance of Science to the Enterprise

The era of enterprise data appears to be dawning – finally. Listening to John Fleming talk at an industry event in New York, it began to occur to us that the world is finally understanding the importance of data, not for its own sake, per se, but as an enabler. Fleming’s project at Morgan Stanley…

The World According to RDUG

Corporate Actions has rightfully been in the limelight of late. The RDUG Corporate Actions Working Group has just released an Interim White Paper with the assistance of both practitioners and suppliers which examines the benefits of automation and presents a breakthrough in mapping electronic document templates upstream to ISO 15022 messaging downstream, comments Dr Anthony…

SimCorp Promotes Crompton to U.K. MD; Gee to Sales Director

SimCorp has appointed Ian Crompton as managing director of its U.K. group, replacing Kjell Nordgard, who has returned to SimCorp’s head office in Denmark after five years in the U.K. Crompton has been sales director at SimCorp for nearly two years, and before that was regional sales director at Eagle Investment Systems. SimCorp has also…

FISD Confirms Davin Appointment as Atkin Replacement

The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) industry group has officially announced the appointment of Thomas Davin as vice president, replacing Mike Atkin who had long held the position until his surprise departure near the end of last year. Davin, who spoke at December’s FIMA event in London on the FISD’s behalf, joins after 18 years…