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Panopticon Partners with GoldenSource to Extend Scope of Data Visualization for the Securities and Investment Management Industry
Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and time series data, today announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with GoldenSource, a data management provider for the securities and investment management industry, to provide a user-friendly reporting and data visualization layer to its data management systems. GoldenSource will…
If You Can’t Explain the Benefits to the Business, You Probably Shouldn’t be Doing the Project, Says UBS’ Webster
The business benefits of investment in data management projects should be obvious in terms of improving efficiency and saving costs, said Ian Webster, global head of data management at UBS Asset Management to attendees at FIMA’s focus day in London. If there are no definitive practical benefits that can be explained to the business, then…
Xenomorph CEO Brian Sentance Spearheads North American Expansion
Xenomorph, the leading analytics and data management solution provider to global financial markets, has today announced that founder director and CEO Brian Sentance has moved to New York to spearhead the company’s North American growth and further boost its presence in the market. The company, which first opened a sales and support operation in North…
FRSGlobal Hires Founder of STB Systems and Makes Further Hires in Asia Pacific and Japan
FRSGlobal, part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, the industry-recognised leader in content-rich solutions for unified global regulatory reporting and risk management, today announced that it has appointed Michael Thomas as Head of Business Development and Operations for North Asia. FRSGlobal has also made a number of additional new hires in the region to boost its…
StatPro Appoints RiskMetrics Man as Sales Director
StatPro Group plc, a global provider of portfolio analysis and asset valuation services for investment professionals, has appointed Ruggero Frisina as European Sales Director. Commenting on the appointment, CEO of StatPro Group plc Justin Wheatley said: “With the launch of StatPro Seven this year and that of Revolution in 2011, we wanted to bolster our…
CSB Faces Lobbying on Cusip ID Fees from Three US Industry Associations
Reflecting the general desire within the user community for lower costs and easier access to instrument identifiers, this week, three US-based industry associations have sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asking the regulator to step in and limit the fees that Standard & Poor’s’ Cusip Service Bureau (CSB) charges for its…
Euroclear’s de Pauw Talks up Corporate Actions Standards, T2S’ Ongoing Impact
International central securities depository (ICSD) Euroclear has been spending a lot of time recently consulting with its user groups about market best practices and standards and how it can improve its servicing of the corporate actions space, according to Edwin de Pauw, director of product management at the ICSD and CSD. This is only natural…
Q&A: CSI’s Emilio Mercado on the Release of MDAL
Emilio Mercado is director, financial services product & strategy at the Collaborative Software Initiative. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to him about the recent release of MDAL – The Market Data Abstraction Layer – which has a goal of providing a single API to access market data across an enterprise, avoiding vendor lock-in. Q: Why is MDAL needed?…
Fidelity ActionsXchange Captures Corporate Actions Faster/Closer to Source
Fidelity ActionsXchange, a Fidelity Investments company and leading provider of global corporate actions and related security events, today introduced an enhanced version of its ActionService platform, which automates and customizes the delivery of corporate actions, such as stock splits and corporate restructurings, on more than 2.5 million securities to some of the world’s largest financial…
CECA Extends Use of SunGard’s FastVal Analytics for Valuing Complex Derivatives
Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros (CECA), the National Association of Spanish Savings Banks, is expanding its use of SunGard’s FastVal Analytics, a comprehensive suite of derivatives pricing models used by international financial institutions for derivatives pricing and structuring, risk management, model validation and benchmarking. The extended use of FastVal will help the association’s financial…