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Cadis Platform Puts Robeco in Control of Data Consumption

Robeco, the Netherlands based asset management specialist, has streamlined its data needs via the Cadis EDM platform. Live since February 2011, Cadis, the global EDM specialist, provides Robeco’s Price, Rates and Security Master Management – increasing flexibility and transparency. The decision to choose Cadis comes after a highly effective Proof of Concept (PoC) which saw…

Ex-Head of Performance Measurement and Reporting at Allianz GI France joins BI-SAM

BI-SAM, a provider of data management, analytics and client reporting solution, today announced that Elena Petit has joined its management team as account management and business development manager, and more specifically responsible for BI-SAM’s SaaS offering. Petit is an expert in performance measurement and analysis and client reporting and has 10 years of experience within…

Deloitte Selects SunGard’s FastVal for Independent Valuations for its Audit and Advisory Businesses

Deloitte LLP, a global provider of audit, tax, consulting and financial advisory services, has selected SunGard’s FastVal, an independent valuation service for vanilla and complex over the counter (OTC) derivatives. Deloitte will use FastVal to provide it with an independent valuation service when revaluing its clients’ derivatives portfolios. FastVal’s coverage of vanilla and OTC derivatives…

Interactive Data Launches New Web-Based Portal For its Business Entity Service

Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced the launch of a new portal for its Business Entity Service. The flexible web-based portal can help clients of Interactive Data’s Business Entity Service delivered via its FTSSM securities administration tool to analyse and manage the risk from their global…

Nomura Taps Richard Sherlund as Head of US Technology Equity Research

Nomura, the global investment bank, announced today that Richard Sherlund joined as managing director and head of its US technology equity research team. Sherlund spent 24 years at Goldman Sachs and, most recently, was the CEO and portfolio manager of Ketchem Creek Capital, a New York-based technology oriented investment firm. Ciaran O’Kelly, head of Equities,…

PolarLake Announce Semantics Based Reference Data Search Capability

Today PolarLake announce the availability of the world’s first Reference Data Specific Enterprise Search capability. Based on the research and development activities of PolarLake this new capability will enable an internet style search capability across any number of reference data sources. The product also enables firms to define their own linkages, meta data and data…

Schroders’ Walsh and HSBC’s Johnson Discuss the Tension Between Data Inputs and Outputs in the Face of Regulatory Change

The buy side community’s data managers are being faced with a tricky balancing act of ensuring their output to clients is optimised from a technology and data standpoint and that their data inputs are of sufficiently high quality for regulatory and client purposes, according to panellists at last week’s A-Team Group and SmartStream roundtable. Speaking…

US FDIC Proposes New Registration Requirements for Residential Mortgage Loan Originators

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has published proposals for comment in the US Federal Register that would introduce new requirements for the registration of residential mortgage loan originators, thus adding new legal entity identifiers into the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry (NMLSR). Under the proposals, on which firms must provide feedback by the…

Northern Trust Enhances Asset Valuation Capabilities for Investment Operations Outsourcing Clients

Northern Trust announced today it has strengthened its client specific asset pricing capabilities for investment managers on its Investment Operations Outsourcing platform through an agreement with Broadridge Financial Solutions, a technology services company that provides information processing for investor communications and securities transactions. Under the agreement, Northern Trust will utilise Broadridge’s Managed Data Service to…

SIX Telekurs Redefines its Products and Services Categories

In response to client demand for a varied range of both standardised and customised data solutions, SIX Telekurs has redefined its products and services categories, to include SIX Telekurs Solutions. This new product category includes wide-reaching and varied solutions, offering customers a one-stop shop for their data and data solutions requirements. SIX Telekurs is a…