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Olayan Group to Implement TAPMaster as Core Data Platform
The Olayan Group, a Saudi multinational, has decided to implement TAP Solution’s TAPMaster platform as its core reference data management system for its asset management operation. The deal is the first for TAP for some time, following its big win at Morgan Stanley (Reference Data Review, January 2005). At Olayan, TAPMaster will become the company’s…
Capco Leaps Into Managed Data Services With Acquisition of ING’s Security Master
Capco is to acquire the security master file platform of Dutch bank ING Group as part of a deal under which Capco Reference Data Services will provide ING with managed data services under a seven-year deal. In a move reminiscent of IBM’s acquisition of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein’s data management platform as part of IBM’s Project…
AIM Software, FT Interactive Data Hook Up via Gain Platform
AIM Software and FT Interactive Data have agreed to collaborate in conducting an extended mapping of FT Interactive Data’s information services via AIM’s Gain reference data management platform. The new relationship builds on several years of cooperation maintaining access to the FT Interactive Data services via Gain. Under the arrangement, FT Interactive Data will offer…
Standard & Poor’s Launches Evaluations for Euro ABS/MBSs
Standard & Poor’s has unveiled a new bond evaluations pricing service catering to the European structured finance marketplace. The move is aimed at filling a gap in the marketplace, which is plagued by lack of transparency particularly for illiquid asset- and mortgage-backed securities. The move marks Standard & Poor’s entrance to the European bond evaluations…
HighMark Capital Selects Cadis To Support New OMS Platform
San Francisco-based HighMark Capital Management has implemented Citadel’s Cadis Data Management Platform (DMP) to support its new order management system (OMS) implementation. Citadel’s selection by HighMark Capital, which serves as investment advisor for HighMark Funds, is the second buy-side win announcement for the data management software firm this year. Scotland-based investment management firm Aegon Asset…
The Proof is in the Pudding
Lunch – London, so curry, of course – with a disillusioned reference data friend the other day leads us to take stock a bit of where this reference data marketplace has arrived, and from whence it came. Reference Data Review will be four years old this year. Looking back over the archive – as we…
BBH Infomediary Adds Data Manager With Access to ID Code
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) has released Data Manager, a web-based module for Infomediary, its integrated communications outsourcing solution, which allows global asset managers to outsource their straight-through-processing (STP) and messaging infrastructure. The new module gives Infomediary clients enhanced functionality to directly customize, view and control their time-sensitive data in real time through a…
Bloomberg Adds Access to S&P/MSCI Barra’s GICS Classifications
Bloomberg has added access to the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), jointly developed by Standard & Poor’s and MSCI Barra, to its Bloomberg Professional market data terminal service. The GICS methodology classifies more than 33,500 active companies and 37,500 securities by sector, industry group, industry and sub-industry, enabling users to conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses…
EDM Council’s Atkin Seeks To Elevate Industry Discussions
Freshly installed as managing director of the Enterprise Data Management Council, former FISD chief Mike Atkin says he’s embarked on a programme to raise the level of discussion of enterprise data issues within the industry, kicking off with council meetings in New York and, this month, London. Atkin reckons the industry is at the stage…
Exchange Data International Launches Initial Public Offering Database
Exchange Data International (EDI) has launched the Worldwide Initial Public Offering (IPO) Database. The new service monitors IPOs worldwide and provides daily updates via email or the web on all IPOs in 74 countries. Reporting on rumoured, pending, new and historical IPOs, the service can be used by investment banks to track IPO progress by…