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BNP Picks Xyleme for Derivatives Data Management
BNP Paribas has selected Xyleme Inc. to provide data management for the bank’s derivatives operations. The big French bank will use Xyleme’s XML-based platform to integrate trade data for reporting of profitability of specific financial instruments or client risk exposure.
CheckFree eVent to Support LSE’s ISO 15022 CAs Feed
CheckFree Corp. has released an enhanced version of CheckFree eVent, which now supports the London Stock Exchange’s ISO 15022 corporate actions data feed. The data covering UK-based corporations is delivered in near real-time over the Swift network using the MT564 notifications messages.
Reuters Plugs Corporate Actions into Xcitek XSP
Reuters has entered a deal to make its corporate actions data, from the DataScope Pricing & Reference Data service, available via Xcitek’s XSP. This data is now available from Reuters in the ISO 15022 format. According to Caroline O’Shaughnessy, head of third party alliances for Reuters DataScope, Reuters “has made a priority of, and is…
Telekurs Financial Launches Pricing Service for French Market
Telekurs (France) SAS has launched a new pricing service, French Fiscal Prices – in French, Impôt de Solidarité sur le Fortune (ISF) – aimed at helping banks produce an accurate valuation of their customers’ holdings prior to declaration to the tax authorities. The ISF pricing service consists of a file of data for more than…
TAP Solutions Releases TAPMaster On Demand
TAP Solutions has released the TAPMaster On Demand web service, an add-on module to its core data management platform that provides a link between its standardized data and a client’s proprietary or non-standard systems and software without the need for development staff. Queries go through the web service and provide ‘read only’ data so administrators…
Convexity Adopts Asset Control’s AC Plus as Starter Pack
Newly launched hedge fund Convexity Capital Management’s selection of Asset Control’s AC Plus platform is aimed at setting in place a reference data infrastructure that to underpin the fund’s expansion into new areas of business. Convexity implemented AC Plus in under two days, and is using the system as its central repository in support of…
State Street, SSISearch to Offer Standard Access to SSI Data
State Street Corp.’s State Street Global Markets trading arm has teamed up with SSISearch to offer a so-called open industry standard for standard settlement instructions and other settlement information. The move brings State Street and SSISearch into the currently underserved area of standard settlement instructions, which has seen several industry initiatives take flight, but none…
Baer, Winterflood Pick ValueLink For Price Data Management
Julius Baer Investment Ltd. (JBIL), an investment management arm of the Swiss bank specializing in fixed-income securities, has selected ValueLink Information Services to provide daily pricing collection for its closing portfolio valuations. Meanwhile, Winterflood Securities has said it will use ValueLink’s Shares in Issue service, which provides data validation of third-party feeds. At JBIL, ValueLink…
Xcitek Installs Piraino as SVP Sales Operations
Frank Piraino has joined Xcitek as senior vice president with responsibility for managing client relationships and sales operations for the company’s flagship corporate actions software solution in New York. He was previously vice president of global sales operations and marketing for GoldenSource Corp.
FISD Names TAP Solutions’ Alvarez to Board
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software and Information Industry Association has named Marc Alvarez, EVP products and marketing at TAP Solutions, to its board as chairman of its Securities Model Working Group.