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Telekurs Financial Launches Pricing Service for French Market
Telekurs (France) SAS has launched a new pricing service, French Fiscal Prices – in French, Impôt de Solidarité sur le Fortune (ISF) – aimed at helping banks produce an accurate valuation of their customers’ holdings prior to declaration to the tax authorities. The ISF pricing service consists of a file of data for more than…
TAP Solutions Releases TAPMaster On Demand
TAP Solutions has released the TAPMaster On Demand web service, an add-on module to its core data management platform that provides a link between its standardized data and a client’s proprietary or non-standard systems and software without the need for development staff. Queries go through the web service and provide ‘read only’ data so administrators…
Convexity Adopts Asset Control’s AC Plus as Starter Pack
Newly launched hedge fund Convexity Capital Management’s selection of Asset Control’s AC Plus platform is aimed at setting in place a reference data infrastructure that to underpin the fund’s expansion into new areas of business. Convexity implemented AC Plus in under two days, and is using the system as its central repository in support of…
State Street, SSISearch to Offer Standard Access to SSI Data
State Street Corp.’s State Street Global Markets trading arm has teamed up with SSISearch to offer a so-called open industry standard for standard settlement instructions and other settlement information. The move brings State Street and SSISearch into the currently underserved area of standard settlement instructions, which has seen several industry initiatives take flight, but none…
Baer, Winterflood Pick ValueLink For Price Data Management
Julius Baer Investment Ltd. (JBIL), an investment management arm of the Swiss bank specializing in fixed-income securities, has selected ValueLink Information Services to provide daily pricing collection for its closing portfolio valuations. Meanwhile, Winterflood Securities has said it will use ValueLink’s Shares in Issue service, which provides data validation of third-party feeds. At JBIL, ValueLink…
Xcitek Installs Piraino as SVP Sales Operations
Frank Piraino has joined Xcitek as senior vice president with responsibility for managing client relationships and sales operations for the company’s flagship corporate actions software solution in New York. He was previously vice president of global sales operations and marketing for GoldenSource Corp.
FISD Names TAP Solutions’ Alvarez to Board
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software and Information Industry Association has named Marc Alvarez, EVP products and marketing at TAP Solutions, to its board as chairman of its Securities Model Working Group.
HyperFeed Technologies Announces New Office in London
HyperFeed Technologies has announced the opening of a new European sales office in London, and named Heetesh “H” Rawal as managing director, sales, Europe. The move will enable development of HMDP and OCC (TRS and Active8 licensed products from Telerate, now a part of Reuters), which complements HyperFeed’s HTPX ticker-plant offering in the European market….
Reuters Sets DataScope Select as Cornerstone Of Strategy for Reference Data Delivery
The launch on January 18 of Reuters’ DataScope Select platform is the culmination of three years of planning and development, and sets in place Reuters’ strategic delivery vehicle for reference data services through 2010. The release of the new service – effectively creating a portal-based ‘shopping mall’ that clients can browse for the reference data…
CIBC Taps Cicada, CPL for Legal Entity Platform, Data
CIBC World Markets’ selection of Cicada and its CounterpartyLink (CPL) sister company to provide a comprehensive legal entity data sourcing and management platform marks the first public client win for the two Cicada Cos. siblings. The implementation is aimed at helping the Canadian bank support Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and meet other regulatory requirements. The initial…