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SIX Telekurs Corporate Actions Available Through ValueLink
ValueLink Information Services Ltd. and SIX Telekurs are pleased to announce the extension of their data partnership relationship to include corporate actions information. SIX Telekurs and ValueLink have enjoyed a long and successful history providing price validation services to major fund managers and fund administrators. Adding industry-leading corporate actions data into the service builds on…
Reference Data Rather Than Alcohol?!
Yesterday’s panel session on a reference data utility was surprisingly well attended, given the fact it was last thing on the first day of the conference and drinks were being served outside on the exhibition floor. Testament to the importance of the subject in an environment where everybody is waiting for the regulator’s hammer to…
Asset Control-Sponsored EDM White Paper Explores Balancing Centralized and Federated Data Models
An Asset Control-sponsored white paper written by TowerGroup highlights the challenges money managers, broker-dealers and asset servicers face in managing their securities technology and operations infrastructures to facilitate faster response to a variety of market conditions, more flexible process, IT and data structures, and an enhanced client experience. The paper, entitled “Enterprise Data Management Equilibrium:…
London Stock Exchange Group Launches UnaVista Confirmations Portal
London Stock Exchange Group today announced the launch of the UnaVista Confirmations Portal. David Lester, Director of Information Services at London Stock Exchange Group, commented: “The cost for firms using outdated manual processes such as faxes and emails is high.Manual processes significantly increase the risk of trade confirmations failing. UnaVista reduces risk and cost by…
And So it Begins…
Sibos 2010 kicked off this morning to a rather drizzly but promising start; with around 8,000 odd delegates registered for the annual Swift user conference in Amsterdam, it’s set to be a busy week. The securities market infrastructure session began proceedings by debating the benefits of competition versus consolidation in the evolving global market: a…
More Buy Side Firms Turning to Third Party Valuations Than Ever Before, Indicates A-Team Group Valuations Benchmarking Study
More and more buy side firms are turning from proprietary and broker-supplied pricing to third party valuations and this is set to rise even further, according to a recent A-Team Group benchmarking study. The majority, at 82%, of the asset management and securities services firm respondents indicated that they rely on third party external sources…
A Random Walk Down Brick Lane
Having spent some time last year at Equinix’s LD4 data centre in Slough for a piece in our A-Team Insight Quarterly magazine – and getting an exclusive preview of the LD5 facility, then under construction, I jumped at the chance last week to tour Interxion’s Brick Lane site. To paraphrase (badly) Camper Van Beethoven’s Take the…
SIX Telekurs Enhances Fund Transparency with Morningstar Holdings Data
SIX Telekurs recently announced the availability of fund constituent data on over 70,000 global funds from Morningstar, giving customers another channel through which to leverage Morningstar’s longstanding expertise in the procurement, analysis and management of fund information. The fund holdings data is a significant enhancement to SIX Telekurs’ Valordata Feed (VDF), which offers reference data…
Kinetic Partners is Focusing on Adding New Modules to its Risk and Valuations Platform
Following her appointment to the London-based risk team of Kinetic Partners two months ago, Isabelle Tykoczinski has been focused on adding new modules to the vendor’s Risk and Valuation Services (RVS) platform. Due for launch in the first half of next year, the new modules focus on extending the platform’s services and reporting tools, such…
Systemic Risk Does Not Just Impact Data Management, Warns Northern Trust’s Skinner
Although a lot has been said about the data management impacts of systemic risk monitoring, data managers must not lose sight of the bigger picture, Nick Skinner, head of data management strategy at custodian bank Northern Trust, warned attendees at this week’s EDM Council and Headstrong event in London. The push by regulators to more…