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B.I.S.S. CA Benchmarks Highlight Data Strengths of Vendor Systems
The findings of the 2006 B.I.S.S. Corporate Actions Benchmarking Report show that the systems of the four providers covered in detail – CheckFree, Information Mosaic, SmartStream and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) – all score well in the data handling categories. B.I.S.S. Research confirms all these vendors have invested heavily in their systems and developed new…
Citadel Notches Up Three New Clients for CADIS Solution
Citadel Associates, provider of data management solutions to investment managers, has chalked up three deals for its CADIS system in recent weeks, with AMVESCAP, the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investment Board and another as yet unnamed major buy side. Citadel says these wins prove the validity of its Investment Solutions Layer concept. The CPP Investment…
AIM Survey Charts 15022 Progress and Outsourcing Trend
The reference data management industry has moved into the limelight and can no longer be viewed as a niche market. So suggest the findings of AIM Software’s third Global Data and Risk Management Survey. The wide ranging research, based on responses from 1027 financial institutions in 77 countries, finds that 28 per cent of firms…
How can you manage what you can’t measure?
John Bottega, chief data officer at Citigroup Corporate and Investment Bank, got FIMA 2006 in London off to a lively start earlier this month with a rousing speech congratulating the assembled reference data managers on how far they’ve come. Indeed, the invention of chief data officers is in itself a testament to the fact that…
A-Team Analysis: The Devil’s in the Detail for Derivatives Data
The obsession of the industry at large with over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, in particular credit default swaps (CDSs) but also interest rate swaps and increasingly equity derivatives, is having an ever greater impact on the world of reference data. The providers of data management systems report a growing demand from among their prospects and clients to…
Credit Dimensions Revealed as Reuters’ Counterparty Data Partner
Reuters confirms it is working with Credit Dimensions to bring to market its counterparty data service, now scheduled to launch in the Q1/Q2 timeframe next year. Kevin Bradshaw, global head of Enterprise Information at Reuters, says the vendor is in advanced discussions with several major bulge bracket firms both in Europe and the US which…
Reuters Offers Bear Stearns CDS Prices Alongside Composite
Reuters has teamed with Bear Stearns Pricing Direct (PricingDirect) to provide its customers with credit default swaps and interest rate swaps prices from PricingDirect, alongside its own composite. For Bear Stearns Pricing Direct, this is an opportunity to tap into a significant distribution network, especially outside the US. According to Bob Rose, senior managing director,…
Ness Improves Data Acquisition and Extraction in FDE Platform
Ness Technologies has unveiled an enhanced version of its reference data management platform Financial Data Enterprise (FDE). New features in FDE 3.0 include an improved data acquisition interface enabling users to dynamically map, cleanse and transform incoming data in various formats to their underlying database models, an improved exceptions and workflow management interface and a…
ABN Amro Takes On Nick Skinner, Ex of GoldenSource…
ABN Amro has recruited Nick Skinner – formerly of GoldenSource and ADP Wilco – as head of market data, global reference data management, operations shared services.
Trace Ties Up With Telekurs, Reuters For ISO 15022 CA Data
Trace Financial and Telekurs Financial have worked together to offer enhanced delivery mechanisms for the Telekurs Financial Valordata Feed (VDF). As a result of this effort, VDF corporate actions information can be mapped directly to a customer’s business system through the Trace Financial Transformer application, using a data dictionary approach, the partners say. Telekurs Financial’s…