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CheckFree eVent Adds FT Interactive Data’s ISO 15022 Corporate Actions
CheckFree Corp. has developed an ISO 15022-compliant interface to FT Interactive Data’s corporate actions data feed for its eVent corporate actions processing platform. As a result, eVent clients will be able to receive, process and share corporate actions data without the need to convert to and from proprietary formats.
Principia Adds S&P Structured Finance Evalutions
Principia has added Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations structured finance evaluated pricing service to its Principia Structured Finance Platform. The addition is aimed at enhancing the platform’s cross-asset monitoring, end-of-day processing and risk management capabilities.
Can Corporate Actions Automate Without Wave of Regulatory Stick?
Despite a myriad of available software solutions aimed at automating corporate actions processing, industry participants can relish the prospect of unreliable data and manually intensive processing for some time to come. That’s among the findings of new research from TowerGroup that suggests that corporate actions processing remains one of the major roadblocks standing in the…
Reuters Taps Nelson for DataScope Select in Asia
Reuters has relocated Barnaby Nelson to Hong Kong, from London, to head up its DataSelect initiative in Asia. Nelson, previously part of the DataScope team in London, will lead a team of five salespeople and one product specialist. His former role in Europe is being covered by Oliver Smith, who recently joined Reuters from Bloomberg,…
Harcourt Joins Standard & Poor’s from FT Interactive Data
Steven Harcourt has joined Standard & Poor’s European Structured Finance team, as senior structured finance evaluator, after spending seven years at FT Interactive Data and four years at Merrill Lynch. Harcourt will continue to develop the team’s new European ABS/MBS Evaluation model, reporting to Peter Jones, director of securities evaluations at Standard & Poor’s in…
Mondas Names King, Ryan to Radica Caps Sales Team
Tim King and Dominic Ryan have joined Mondas as sales manager and sales executive, respectively. “Both Tim and Dominic have extensive experience in sales with organisations including the London Stock Exchange, Dow Jones, Thomson Financial and Phillips Electronics, and the high level of expertise we need for them to play a leading part in our…
Thomson Sets Central Role for QAI Platform In Reference Data Delivery Strategy
Thomson Financial’s acquisition of Quantitative Analytics Inc. (QAI), which closed earlier this year, gave the company a product aimed squarely at the quantitative analyst marketplace. But the QAI platform is destined to play a more significant role as the company crystallizes its strategy for distribution of reference data. Thomson Financial has spent the past couple…
FT Interactive Data Adds CPL To Avox in Entity Data Service
FT Interactive Data has made the first move to bolster the issue-to-issuer business entity data capability it launched in the spring, with a second strategic relationship with a third-party entity data provider, this time CounterpartyLink (CPL). The Interactive Data Corp. unit, which unveiled the entity data capability in April, using Deutsche Boerse’s Avox as its…
Fundtech Hitches Up to Swift’s New Closed User Group Category
Fundtech has shown its support for Swift’s new Corporate Access programme with its participation in Swift’s Member Administered Closed User Group (MA-CUG) model. The programme, aimed at encouraging corporates onto the Swift network, offers standard access to third-party services, in turn offering third-party providers access to Swift’s network of bank and corporate customers.
CheckFree Sets ISO 15022 Interface to Fidelity ActionsXchange
CheckFree Corp. has introduced an ISO 15022-compliant interface to the Fidelity ActionsXchange corporate actions data feed from its CheckFree eVent corporate actions processing platform. CheckFree eVent allows customers to receive, validate and process corporate actions, from announcement through entitlement calculation to notification and instruction processing. The ActionsXchange ActionService data feed integrates data from multiple commercial…