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SunGard Snaps up ValueLink Information Services, Morgan Discusses Long Term Integration into Asset Arena
Ever-acquisitive SunGard has snapped up yet another small vendor in its bid to get in on the data quality and validation solution investment action going on within the buy side. Doug Morgan, president of SunGard’s Institutional Asset Management business, explains the details of the ValueLink acquisition to Reference Data Review. Morgan indicates that the discussions between…
New JWG Study Shows Firms Slow to Respond to Risk Data Management Requirements
Research launched by JWG today finds that global financial services organisations are not actively reviewing their risk data quality processes following the fall-out of the financial crisis. The study, which includes responses from 20 risk, data, and finance professionals in 16 global firms, shows that, while risk data quality is a pertinent issue, little has…
OMG to Bolster EDM Council’s Semantics Repository with Established Governance Framework, Says Soley
The tie up between the Object Management Group (OMG) and the EDM Council could go some way towards making the data management industry group’s semantic repository more accessible to the market, according to Richard Soley, chairman and CEO of OMG. By providing a governance framework via which regular, scheduled updates to the repository can take…
John Burchenal Joins Traiana as Global Head of Business Development
Post-trade solutions provider Traiana has named John Burchenal as global head of business development. Reporting to Jill Sigelbaum, executive vice president, global sales and alliances, Burchenal will be based in New York. Burchenal served most recently as managing director of strategic growth at Omgeo, where he was responsible for growth initiatives and partnerships. Prior to…
Sage and Talend Form Partnership to Boost Sage ERP X3 Interoperability Performances
Sage, a business management software provider and Talend, the worldwide leader in open source integration solutions, today announced the completion of a partnership, which will integrate Talend’s integration technologies with Sage ERP X3, Sage plc’s global ERP solution aimed at medium sized companies. Thanks to this global partnership, Sage ERP X3 customers will benefit from…
Swift’s Janssens on its Bid to be the OFR Supported Legal Entity ID Registration Authority
Swift may have backed away from pushing a reworked version of its Bank Identifier Code (BIC) as a legal entity identifier for the purposes of the US Office of Financial Research (OFR), but that does not mean it is out of the running as a standards issuer in the context of a global reference data…
Broadridge Financial Solutions CEO Calls for Nationwide Effort to Increase Individual Shareholder Voting
In remarks before the National Press Club this morning, the chief executive of the nation’s largest shareholder communications company called on all CEOs to encourage individual shareholders, including employee shareholders, to vote their proxies. “In 2010, just one in 20 individual retail investors voiced their opinions about the companies they invested in by exercising their…
EFAMA’s FPSG Champions Standardisation of Corporate Actions Messaging, Use of ISO Standards for Funds Processing
The European Fund and Asset Management Association’s (EFAMA) Fund Processing Standardisation Group (FPSG) has this month produced a report that charts the progress of standardisation initiatives in the European funds industry, including in the corporate actions space. The association’s working group, which was established in 2007, is positioning itself as a “catalyst for change” by…
SunGard Acquires ValueLink Information Services
SunGard has acquired ValueLink Information Services, a supplier of validated financial data solutions. The acquisition will extend SunGard’s Asset Arena suite of investment management solutions to include robust validation of security pricing and corporate actions data in support of fund valuation and operational reporting processes. The acquisition, the terms of which were not disclosed, is…
Welcome Back Tibco!
No apologies for the headline. It’s not meant to suggest any favoritism towards the company, but rather to signal my delight that the low-latency messaging space is about to get even more competitive. And that’s going to drive down both latencies and the cost of messaging systems. All good stuff, methinks. But my excitement is…