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Credit Suisse Asset Management Signs 5-Year Deal with Xcitek
In a five-year deal with Xcitek to automate its corporate actions processing, Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) in New York, part of Zurich-based Credit Suisse Group, will use eTRAN (Electronic Tracking Response and Notifications) and the ISO 15022-Compliant Messaging Module of XSP for automated client event notification and response capture of elections. Using these tools,…
Credaris Chooses Markit For Credit Data Services
Meanwhile, Credaris Portfolio Management, an independent investment management platform, has chosen pricing and valuations vendor Markit for its credit data services. Credaris, which has EUR 1.3 billion in assets under management, provides tailored solutions to European financial institutions aiming to generate high risk-adjusted returns from their credit market asset allocations. Credaris will receive Markit’s credit…
Capco Launches Global Equities Dividend Forecasting Service
Capco Reference Data Services has launched Global Dividend Forecasting (Global DivCast), a managed data solution that provides a consolidated source of dividend projection data for equities. Features include a forecast of cash flows for a specific security, cash flows calculated using historical and current dividends over a period of two to four years, up to…
StatPro to Resell Capco Reference Data Service’s Global Index Monitor
StatPro, a portfolio analystics solutions provider, is now a reseller of Capco Reference Data Service’s Global Index Monitor (GIM), a source of cleansed global index composition data provided in a single standardized file. GIM, acquired by Capco through its purchase of Iverson Financial, will be provided as part of StatPro’s Performance & Attribution (SPA) product,…
FT Interactive Data’s FTS Service is Now Available to Icon Customers
FT Interactive Data’s FTS service, which provides prices, evaluations, FX rates and indices data, is now available to users of Icon, Linedata Services’ back-office fund management and administration solution, through Icon’s Data Integration Platform (DIP). FTS is the first interface available under Icon’s Accredited Data Vendor Partner Programme launched earlier this year. Icon is planning…
Two New Corporate Bond Indices Launched to Increase Transparency
The National Association of Securities Dealer (NASD) and Bloomberg are jointly launching two new corporate bond indices: the NASD-Bloomberg Active Investment Grade U.S. Corporate Bond Index and the NASD-Bloomberg Active High Yield U.S. Corporate Bond Index. Both are generated solely from transactions prices of actively traded bonds as opposed to quotes or estimated prices. Index…
Mondas Add Real-Time Updates And Web Access to Radica CAPS
Mondas has released Version 4 of its Radica CAPS corporate actions platform. The new version provides a common platform for retail and institutional clients with web-enabled modules and an integral message broking toolkit called Prism. Radica CAPS 4 users will also have access to real-time updates from event feeds, Swift and position data via the…
MiFID Deadline May Slide Again; Does Buy Side Care?
Recent press reports suggest that MiFID’s implementation deadline will be pushed back to November 2007. EU member allegedly met on October 21 to discuss pushing back the deadline. Meanwhile, Investit, a buy-side consultancy, has warned that asset managers are unprepared for MiFID.
Markit RED Reaches 100 Customers Amid Flurry of Activity
Markit, a provider of pricing and valuations, has signed the 100th customer to its Reference Entity Database (RED), which provides reference entity and reference obligation identifiers for the credit default swaps market. The service, launched two years ago, has been actively adding clients and forming alliances with others vendors. Most recently Xenomorph (Reference Data Review,…
Transformer 2.3 Adds Support for FpML and ICMA TRAX 2005 Libraries
Trace Financial Ltd. has released version 2.3 of its Transformer data integration and message mediation platform. New to this version is support for FpML and ICMA TRAX 2005 message libraries. The new release also offers automatic web service deployment from within the Transformer development environment and a dynamic testing facility, either from files or databases,…