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FactSet Opts for Telekurs VDF To Support Securities Master File
As it continues to expand its own information services offerings, Norwalk, Conn.-based FactSet Research Systems Inc. has opted to use Telekurs Financial’s Valordata Feed to augment the securities master file it uses to underpin management of the numerous internal and external data sources it uses. As well as augmenting its security master file, FactSet will…
Barclays Global Investors Sets Asset Control At Centre of Global Reference Data Repository
Barclays Global Investors’ selection of Asset Control’s AC Plus for a planned central data repository marks the fruition of a year of research and evaluations to create a global platform for reference data and time-series data management. BGI will kick off its global implementation in January, with the platform – covering both equities and fixed-income…
DSTi Adds to U.K., French teams
Buy side solutions firm DST International (DSTi) has added two people to its sales teams. Vincent Stefanovic joins DSTi in Paris as business development manager for France, focusing on expanding DSTi’s presence in France and French-speaking markets. Alan Williamson, meanwhile, joins as sales executive, where he will focus on DSTi’s risk performance solutions in the…
NRW, Bankgesellschaft Berlin Adopt Actis. BSP’s ProDB Platform
NRW.Bank, the largest of Germany’s regional development banks in terms of assets, and Bankgesellschaft Berlin, a regional corporate bank, have gone live with BSP ProDB from Actis.BSP, a German provider of core banking and capital markets systems. Both banks will use the BSP platform to handle securities descriptive data and corporate actions information. BSP ProDB…
Ex-Reuters Senior Exec Ken Byrne Joins Calypso
Ken Byrne has been appointed executive vice president of worldwide field operations for Calypso Technology, a provider of front-to-back-office trading solutions. Based in New York, Byrne will be responsible for global sales and professional services worldwide. His experience includes running his own consulting practice in addition to holding senior roles at Reuters during 13 years…
Data Management Steps Up a Gear
We can’t help but feel that the reference data marketplace has, over the past few months, stepped into another plane. When we launched Reference Data Review almost three years ago (yes, three years!), the market was full of talk and devoid of action. Looking back at our coverage in 2005, we’re proud to see RDR…
iSpheres Hires Burgos from SunGard STP Area
Tick data management provider iSpheres has hired John Burgos as senior sales engineer. Burgos, with experience in networks, STP and payments systems, was previously with SunGard. He will support New York area clients.
Mergent’s BondViewer Offers Evaluated Pricing for U.S. Fixed Income
New York-based Mergent Inc., a subsidiary of Xinhua Finance, has released BondViewer, an on-demand web-based system for accessing the company’s database of U.S. taxable and municipal bonds, retail notes, U.S. agency issues and Treasury notes. Features include previous-day evaluated pricing for each bond provided by Mergent’s independent end-of-day evaluation service, and performance tracking. Terms and…
Columba, Telekurs Team Up To Supply CA Data to LCH.Clearnet
LCH.Clearnet has implemented a corporate actions data platform using a consolidated source of international corporate actions content from Telekurs Financial combined with Columba’s web-based, knowledge management platform. This customizable platform allows Telekurs Financial’s data and LCH.Clearnet’s in-house future events data to be aggregated, manipulated and distributed internally.
CheckFree Adds EDI CA Data Feed; Automates ISO 20022 Data Dictionaries
CheckFree Corp.’s CheckFree eVent corporate actions automation platform has created an interface to the ISO 15022-compliant corporate actions data feed from Exchange Data International (EDI). EDI’s corporate actions data is already integrated into a number of vendor systems, including, most recently, Mergent’s EventsData.com and BvDEP’s Osiris. Meanwhile, CheckFree is automating the way Message Broker, the…