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AIM Teams Up with Xen for Asian Data Management Solution
Reference data management firm AIM Software has teamed up with Xen Business Solutions to provide an integrated solution between Xen’s treasury and portfolio management system and AIM’s Gain DataDesktop. The aim, say the companies, is to manage the “full lifecycle of data capture, cleansing, consolidation, enrichment and storage of reference, price and corporate actions data…
LaSalle Expands Corporate Actions Deal with XSP
LaSalle Bank, a Midwest U.S. bank owned by ABN Amro, has expanded its license of XcitekSolutionsPlus (XSP) for end-to-end automation of corporate actions processing for another five years. The deal, originally signed in 1999, will now run through 2010. The extension includes the addition of an ISO messaging module as well as eTran for web-based…
Capco Targets Canada
Capco is targeting the Canadian market, opening new offices in Toronto, Ontario, Montreal and Quebec under Jos Schmitt, managing partner for Canadian operations, and head of the Market Infrastructure practice. Capco recently completed a study for the Canadian Capital Markets Association (CCMA), highlighting possible enhancements for the post-trade processing of institutional trades. Making up the…
Lupus Accesses WM Datenservice via ADP Wilco
Frankfurt-based investment management firm Lupus alpha is to use ADP Wilco’s online access to the WM Datenservice German securities reference database, made available recently . This is being used alongside ADP Wilco’s outsourced Swift service bureau, which will replace Lupus’ existing fax-based systems.
Standard & Poor’s Offers Cusip Compromise; Users Welcome Move, But Still Want More
Bending to customer pressure, Standard & Poor’s has taken steps to address concerns over its pricing policies for Cusip instrument identifiers by restructuring its pricing and providing some level of transparency. The new pricing policy provides increased flexibility for European clients, some of whom have raised objections to the charges for identifiers relating to U.S.-centric…
Sachsen Ireland to Use Telekurs iD, Pricing Data
Telekurs Financial has secured an extended deal with the Irish operation of German bank Sachsen LB Europe to provide pricing services and its display product. Sachsen will receive intraday and closing prices for the full portfolio universe of over 200 stock exchanges and 500 contributors. Its users will be able to access the pricing data,…
…While Insight Talks Outsourcing with Northern Trust
Custodian Northern Trust is in exclusive negotiations with Insight Investment, the U.K. asset management arm of U.S. banking group HBOS, to take on Insight’s investment administration on an outsourced basis. The decision has come after a feasibility study that established a “sound and compelling case for moving to an outsource business model with clear benefits,”…
Survey Finds Cost, Regulatory Compliance Key Drivers
A recent survey, conducted by Sun Microsystems and Morse, found that cost reduction and regulatory compliance are the key drivers of current business strategy. The findings are in line with those of A-Team’s survey Reference Data Now, commissioned by Reuters and available on their website (http://about.reuters.com/datascope). The Sun survey, conducted among 50 financial institutions, consultants,…
Information Mosaic Sources ISO 15022 Corporate Actions
Telekurs Financial is the first vendor to make its ISO 15022 corporate actions feed available within Information Mosaic’s corporate actions product Cama. Information Mosaic is taking the feed via Telekurs Financial’s VDFS internet/FTP access site to its Valordata Feed (VDF). The feed provides intraday, end-of-day, and ad hoc corporate actions data.
ObjectStore Targets Reference Data with Real-Time Technology
ObjectStore has outlined plans to apply its real-time data processing services to the reference data business. The company, part of Progress Software, provides high performance data management for streaming data and complex event processing and real-time data caching services. It believes that it can implement a data service layer within financial institutions, saving them from…