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Reuters Grows Third-Party Alliances With Cicada Deal
Reuters has entered a strategic alliance with Cicada to make key historical and reference data from its Datascope service available through Cicada’s data management solutions. Specifically it will provide equities and fixed income data through Cicada’s Reference Data Management Solutions. This is in line with Reuters’ plan to build on its third party alliances, and…
A-Team Welcomes Maryann Houglet to Spearhead Strategic Consulting
A-Team is pleased to announce that Maryann Houglet has joined to spearhead A-Team’s strategic consulting business. She brings with her over 25 years experience in the securities industry worldwide leading businesses, providing marketing and corporate development expertise at financial information services firms. As an independent consultant, her clients have included Interactive Data Corporation, Thomson Financial…
BoNY Wins ING Europe Deal with Outsourced SmartSource…
Bank of New York has won a deal with ING Investment Management Europe, based in Holland, to take on ING IM’s operational functions from post-trade execution services to settlement. The deal is another client for Bank of New York’s outsourcing business SmartSource, which is leveraging its recent 51% stake in the “information-centric STP solutions” company…
The Appliance of Science to the Enterprise
The era of enterprise data appears to be dawning – finally. Listening to John Fleming talk at an industry event in New York, it began to occur to us that the world is finally understanding the importance of data, not for its own sake, per se, but as an enabler. Fleming’s project at Morgan Stanley…
Kirby to Leave SmartStream Technologies at Month-End
Anthony Kirby will be leaving SmartStream Technologies at the end of this month to pursue other opportunities. Kirby joined a year ago as director of market management at SmartStream, reporting to chief executive officer Martin Brown. Prior to that Kirby worked at Deutsche Borse, Reuters, Swift, the former GSTPA, and Merrill Lynch. Kirby is also…
Automatic instrument opening from Avaloq for Bank Sarasin & Co.
The data management platform of AIM Software, the GAIN DataDesktop, was the key for Swiss private bankers Bank Sarasin & Co. to enable the automation of opening instruments directly in their Avaloq banking application, writes AIM Software.Bank Sarasin & Co., a Basel-based private bank with a strong international focus, has been using the data management…
The World According to RDUG
Corporate Actions has rightfully been in the limelight of late. The RDUG Corporate Actions Working Group has just released an Interim White Paper with the assistance of both practitioners and suppliers which examines the benefits of automation and presents a breakthrough in mapping electronic document templates upstream to ISO 15022 messaging downstream, comments Dr Anthony…
Morgan Stanley Enters 2nd Phase Of TAP-Based SMS Project
Morgan Stanley & Co. has moved onto the second phase of its plan to install an enterprise-wide securities master service, following the completion of the first part of the project within its retail brokerage operation. The installation – dubbed Securities Master Service (SMS) – makes use of Vancouver-based TAP Solutions’ TAPmaster reference data management platform….
Wachovia Picks Asset Control’s AC Plus for Risk Management
Wachovia Corp. is implementing a data management solution from Asset Control to handle price data for its risk management operations within its corporate investment banking arm. It is envisaged that the data management platform could be extended over time to other groups within Wachovia, including credit products and equity derivatives. Barry Fenwick, divisional information officer…
FT Interactive Data Reports Growth of Fair Value Information Service
FT Interactive Data, subsidiary of Interactive Data Corp., reports that it now has 108 mutual fund and mutual fund processing clients subscribing to its Fair Value Information Service, compared with 34 firms subscribing this time last year. The Fiar Value Information Service provides a tool to assist U.S. mutual fund companies in meeting their legal…