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Mellon Financial Combines MAS with Eagle Product Offerings
Mellon Financial has combined its Mellon Analytical Solutions (MAS) business with the Eagle Performance system. The move follows Mellon’s acquisition of Russell Investment Group’s 50% share in the Russell/Mellon joint venture last September. The combined offering provides portfolio and mutual fund performance measurement, performance attribution, index data management and portfolio analysis and reporting to institutional…
Richards Steps Down as Enterprise Data Leader at SunGard
Dale Richards, former president of Fame Information Services and leader of the global enterprise data initiative at SunGard, is to leave the company, following the integration of Fame and the launch of the enterprise initiative. He describes his departure as amicable and planned.
CheckFree to Incorporate eVent Technology in New EPL System
CheckFree Corp. is to embed CheckFree eVent into its next-generation Enhanced Portfolio Lifecycle platform to aid corporate actions processing. CheckFree EPL is an advancement of its existing asset management system that will deliver a global multi-transaction/ multi-currency portfolio accounting solution. The inclusion of eVent will allow clients to automatically receive, validate and process corporate actions,…
Mellon Names Eagle’s Feibel to Lead MAS Business; Kikta Takes On Client Service
Two Mellon veterans have been appointed to manage the Mellon Analytical Solutions (MAS) performance measurement business. Bruce Feibel, previously head of the Eagle Pace and Eagle Performance businesses of Mellon unit Eagle Investment Systems, has been named global director of MAS and Eagle Performance products, and will be responsible for MAS product management and software…
Aegon Asset Management Taps Citadel Cadis for Data Platform
Aegon Asset Management UK Ltd. has implemented Citadel Associates’ Cadis Data Management Platform (DMP). The Scotland-based investment management firm will use DMP in support of its outsourced securities administration and fund accounting functions, which are handled by Citigroup’s Global Transaction Services group, as well as for its own core business activities. Cadis now supplies Aegon…
Brewin Dolphin Deploys Telekurs’ Valordata, Mondas’ Radica Caps for Corporate Actions
Brewin Dolphin Securities, a U.K.-based private client portfolio manager and stockbroker, went live last month with an integrated STP solution using Telekurs Financial’s corporate actions data delivered via the ISO 15022-based Valordata feed delivered to Mondas’ Radica Caps corporate actions processing software. With this web-based solution, Brewin Dolphin can select securities on a daily basis…
Asset Control Enlarges On Standard Chartered Project
Asset Control has released details of its implementation of the AC PriceMaster platform at Standard Bank last year. The Hong Kong- and London-based bank announced last spring that it was live at four main offices with AC PriceMaster for management of market rates in support of its risk analysis activities (Reference Data Review, May 2005)….
ValueLink and Reuters Extend Relationship
ValueLink Information Services and Reuters have extended their relationship by increasing the amount of Reuters data carried by ValueLink as well as increasing Reuters’ status to a key provider. ValueLink provides financial data collection, consolidation and cleansing, and offers tailored solutions, which can be delivered in the format the customer desires. Reuters first forged its…
Interactive Data Picks Ivaliotis to Lead Marketing Strategy
Interactive Data Corp. has named Mary Ivaliotis vice president and chief marketing officer, with responsibility for developing the overall brand and marketing strategy for Interactive Data, and its FT Interactive Data, Comstock, CMS BondEdge and eSignal businesses. Ivaliotis was most recently executive vice president of global markets at Telerate, and previously held positions at prior…
Counterparty Link Installs Cole to Head Product Management
Martin Cole has joined Counterparty Link as head of the product management team. He was previously managing director of Dun & Bradstreet, U.K. and Ireland, a role he took on in July 2003. Prior to that, he spent 16 years with Reuters, holding a variety of sales and marketing positions, including marketing director for U.K….