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Xcitek Enters Alliance with Financial Information Network
Corporate actions data vendor Xcitek has entered a strategic alliance with Financial Information Network, provider of accounting and trading solutions. The deal calls for Xcitek to provide FIN clients with corporate actions data and cost-basis information. According to Xcitek managing partner Joseph Carvalhido, “By combining FIN’s complete global portfolio management system with Xcitek’s renowned data,…
Reuters to Offer Barra Risk Models to Australian Fund Managers
Reuters is adding Barra’s risk analytics to the information services it offers to fund managers in Australia. The move will allow portfolio managers to obviate the traditional delay in getting risk information on a portfolio. Instead, managers will be able to derive this information from their core market monitoring systems using the integrated Barra models.
FT Interactive Data Signs with Absreports.com for Evaluations Data
FT Interactive Data will make its asset- and mortgage-backed securities evaluations data available via Absreports.com, which provides contact, transaction and performance data for the European securitization industry. Under the arrangement, visitors to absreports.com can click on a link to access FT Interactive Data’s FTS desktop portfolio administration tool, which can be used to view more…
Sitting Up and Taking Notice
Finally, the world seems to be paying attention to what industry protagonists have been saying about the reference data marketplace for what now seems like quite some time: that reference data is important to your business, no matter what it is. Maybe it’s because the protagonists have become more sophisticated. We were encouraged to hear…
EDI Names Two to Reinforce London Sales Team
Reference data supplier Exchange Data International (EDI) has named two business development managers to its London sales team, both reporting to director Kevin Brady. Rickie Glasgow joins from Reuters, where he was product manager for DataScope Portfolio and Global Pricing. Andy Sabourin joins from HSBC’s market data division. Prior to that he was major accounts…
State of Wisconsin Investment Board Selects Eagle for Reference Data Normalization Platform
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) has embarked on a major project to integrate and normalize the data used by its portfolio managers to run their investment models and to verify custodians’ reports on the performance of its external managers. SWIB is implementing Eagle Investment Systems’ Eagle Reference Manager platform at the heart of…
Reuters Identifies Enterprise Data Fastest-Growing Segment in 2003
In a wide-ranging product briefing to analysts in London earlier this month, Reuters identified enterprise data as its fastest-growing product segment in 2003. The segment, which falls under its new enterprise client group, includes Reuters’ DataScope pricing and reference data businesses. According to Reuters chief financial officer David Grigson, the enterprise information products group grew…
FISD Relishes Role in WG11 to Develop Financial Data Model
Delegates at the FISD’s general meeting in Paris late last month heard about the industry group’s significant involvement in International Standards Organization’s Working Group 11, which released a draft consultation paper in early March as the previous edition of Reference Data Review was going to press. Working Group 11 (WG11) of Steering Committee 4 (SC4)…
Tata Consultancy to Join Corporate Actions Benchmarking Event
India’s Tata Consultancy Services will join a selection of corporate actions vendors at a London benchmarking event in June organized by City Compass. The event – pitched as an opportunity to benchmark vendor offerings versus user needs – is scheduled for June 30 at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall, in the City. Other participating vendors include…
Martin Currie to Use ValueLink Pricing Service
Fund manager Martin Currie Investment Management, based in Edinburgh, has signed up to use daily pricing from ValueLink Information Services. The ValueLink data will be used to provide clients with price information while at the same time optimizing the firm’s own pricing operations. Martin Currie cited ValueLink’s stringent validation procedures as a factor in its…