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FT Interactive Data Joins Linedata’s Partner Programme
Linedata Services has made reference data from Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data Europe unit available through its Accredited Data Vendor Partner Programme for its Icon portfolio management platform. Icon users already have access to prices, evaluations, FX rates and indices data from FT Interactive Data’s FTS portfolio administration service.
Markit Credit Pricing and Reference Data Integrates with Charles River
Markit has teamed up with Charles River Development to integrate its credit pricing and reference entity data into the Charles River Investment Management System (IMS) for fixed income. Markit’s data will be consistently mapped and readily accessible throughout Charles River IMS for mutual customers. For Charles River’s clients, the deal will offer a “completely integrated…
CityIQ Named Implementation Partner for Xenomorph System
Asset management consultant CityIQ has become the latest officially accredited implementation partner for Xenomorph’s TimeScape data and decision management system, which specialises in derivatives. The deal enables asset management clients to add derivatives capabilities to their process “without the need for wholesale redevelopment of existing technology infrastructure”. The partners, which have worked together before, believe…
Soliton Uses CPL Data to Add Credit Module to TimeSquare
Data management platform supplier Soliton Inc. has introduced a credit data management module for its TimeSquare system that combines credit risk ratings and issuer data with legal entity and counterparty data from CounterpartyLink (CPL). The new TimeSquare module rationalizes, stores and aggregates CounterpartyLink’s legal entity and counterparty data. The CPL data is then linked credit…
A-Team Group Adds Key Team Member
Andrew and Angela are delighted to announce the arrival of Nathan, 6lb 6oz, on March 11. Mum and baby are doing fine. After missing his first deadline by almost two weeks, Nate should be ready for active reporting duty in about 20 years. As Reference Data Review went to press, Nate was making great use…
Volante Technologies Products Optimized with SpikeSource
Volante Technologies has fully configured and optimized its products for use with SpikeSource Spike Stacks to create an open source infrastructure. Volante’s data management products, which run in J2EE and .Net environments, now carry Java, Apache and MySQL components, providing solutions for financial services based on business-ready open source infrastructure, with end-to-end testing and a…
Temenos Appoints Popple, Christodoulou for European Operations
Steve Popple, previously sales director at reference data management platform supplier GoldenSource (formerly Financial Technologies International), has joined Swiss core banking systems vendor Temenos as director of business development, Central and Eastern Europe. Popple, an industry veteran of 23 years, will report to Noah Krahenmann, and will be based in the U.K. Another new arrival…
Thomson Financial’s Datafeed Now Available via ValueLink
Thomson Financial has signed an agreement with ValueLink to provide its Datafeed solutions as a primary source via ValueLink’s validated data service in Europe. As a result, ValueLink’s clients will now be able to commingle Thomson’s financial content with their own proprietary content and that of other third-party sources of data, which are integrated in…
Capco Expands its Managed Services Capability in Europe
Capco, has announced two senior appointments in its managed services business. Neil Innes, who most recently spent seven years at Deutsche Bank, joins as a product manager within Capco Reference Data Services, based in London. Eric Bohner, meanwhile, a founding partner of Capco, has been named head of managed services sales for Europe.
FT Interactive Data, Xcitek Complete Testing of ISO 15022 Service
FT Interactive Data Europe has successfully completed testing of its latest ISO 15022-formatted corporate action files in partnership with Xcitek’s XSP. Testing of the available ISO 15022 event types was undertaken between FT Interactive and Xcitek throughout January prior to the latest release of FT Interactive Data’s ISO 15022 service, with the aim of enabling…