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J.P. Morgan Securities Upgrades CA System
J.P. Morgan Securities has gone live with the latest release of Xcitek’s XSP corporate actions automation and processing system. J.P. Morgan Securities has been using XSP for five years now and says the new version will be used to expand its use of ISO functionality, eliminating the need for manual diary entries. The firm will…
Reuters DataScope to Integrate with CicadaRisk’s RiskGrid
Reuters has forged an alliance with CicadaRisk to supply reference and historical data from its Reuters DataScope service to CicadaRisk’s new RiskGrid risk management system. The Reuters DataScope data is to be integrated within RiskGrid, which is targeted at the buy-side community. The system can be deployed on an ASP, hosted or on-site basis.
Capco Expands Global ETF Coverage To, Erm, North America and Europe
Capco Reference Data Services (CRDS), a managed reference and market data services provider, has announced it has significantly expanded its coverage of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in its Global ETF Monitor (GEM) product. An ETF is a basket of stocks designed to track an index, yet it trades like a single stock and GEM provides ETF-constituent…
Markit Launches Valuations Service for Inflation Derivatives
Mark-to-market pricing and asset valuations group Markit has launched a valuations service for inflation derivatives covering UK, US, French and European zero coupon swaps. The service, part of Markit’s Totem Service aimed at sell-side risk managers and product controllers, provides independent verification of mark-to-market prices for UK RPI (Retail Price Index), U.S. CPI (Consumer Price…
Hermes Mulls BNY Outsourced Data Management Proposal
Asset manager Hermes Pensions Management Ltd. is considering using Bank of New York to provide a range of outsourced investment operations services, including data management. BNY’s proposal calls for the migration of Hermes’ operational functions to be migrated to the BNY SmartSource platform and centralized outsourcing business model.
IR Specialist EquityStory To Acquire DGAP Service
Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Ad-hoc-Publizitaet (DGAP), which provides electronic distribution of ad-hoc disclosures, is being acquired by EquityStory, an online investor relations specialist. DGAP was set up in 1996 by Deutsche Boerse, Reuters and Vereinigte Wirtschaftsdienste (VWD) to introduce electronic distribution of ad-hoc disclosures in Germany; it also publishes corporate news, directors’ dealings and press releases….
Markit RED Available to Murex Clients
Mutual customers of Murex and Markit Group Limited (Markit) can now access Markit credit pricing and reference entity data (RED) through Murex’s credit derivatives trading and risk management platform. The strategic relationship between the two companies will give joint customers online access to benchmark credit default swap (CDS) and bond pricing as well as reference…
DSTi to Embed Xenomorph’s Time-Series Data Management Platform
DST International has signed an exclusive global agreement with Xenomorph to embed Xenomorph’s time-series data management functionality into its Investment Data Solutions platform, aimed at buy-side users. By offering this support for storage, manipulation and retrieval of largescale time-series data and providing analytic applications and plug-ins to make analytics available in other applications such as…
Reuters Datascope’s Ken Barnes Appointed VP, Business and Planning, at Wombat
Ken Barnes, formerly of Reuters’ DataScope reference data product group, has joined Wombat Financial Software, a low-latency data delivery provider. Reporting to Danny Moore, COO, he assumes responsibility for global marketing and communications, competitor and market analysis, sales process management and channel development and management. He will also manage several Tier 1 accounts in the…
Wachovia Taps Teradata For Basel II Preparation
As part of a new risk management programme, U.S. bank Wachovia is implementing data warehousing technology from NCR subsidiary Teradata. It will use the technology to consolidate its existing disparate risk databases into a centralized warehousing environment. The vendor says the new risk data platform will also enable the bank to meet the data management…