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Swift Outlines Calendar for Market Data Vendor Category
Following its launch of a pilot for market data suppliers to offer their services via its network, Swift has outlined the timeline for the proposed adoption of a new participant category for these vendors. Speaking at the Sixth Annual Conference on Corporate Actions Processing in New York last month, Swift partner solutions business manager Linda…
FTI Upgrades StreetEnterprise Suite
Financial Technologies International (FTI) has upgraded its StreetEnterprise suite of securities processing applications. Among the enhanced features is improved data management designed to ease the selection, implementation and use of reference data throughout an organization.
Telekurs, Soliton Team Up to Release Time Square VDF Interface
Swiss reference data vendor Telekurs has teamed up with Soliton to introduce an interface between its Valordata Feed (VDF) and Soliton’s Time Square data management system. VDF is being added to Soliton’s library of Vendor Data Acquisition Workflows, allowing firms to manage reference data workflow, from acquisition to distribution, through an automated process.
London Stock Exchange to Use Telekurs Data for Sedol Expansion
The London Stock Exchange has signed up to receive international securities data from Telekurs Financial in support of the exchange’s impending expansion of its Sedol security identifier set. The deal aims to close gaps in the exchange’s coverage as it brings the newly expanded Sedol to market next month, in the first step in establishing…
Mark-It Partners to Acquire LoanX Credit Price Supplier
U.K.-based Mark-It Partners, a provider of credit pricing information, plans to acquire LoanX, a U.S. supplier of syndicated loan data. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Mark-It says it plans to integrate LoanX’s data offerings with its own to create a multi-asset offering, including market valuations on corporate bonds, credit default swaps and syndicated…
Iverson Upgrades GIM Index Data Service
Iverson Financial Systems has added an index family indicator and a total return index value field to its Global Index Monitor (GIM) index data service. The index family indicator is a parent index of index categories, which can help with mapping of indices internally. The total return index value field provides a measure of the…
Telekurs Unveils New Corporate Actions Delivery Platform
Telekurs used the Swift SIBOS event in Singapore last month to debut its new ISO 15022-format MT564 corporate actions delivery platform. The new platform, developed in conjunction with Swift, will carry the same range of structure, coded basic data and corporate actions already available via the Telekurs Valordata Feed (VDF). Pilot operations using the new…
Princeton Financial Allies With DSTi for Data Integration
Portfolio management system vendor Princeton Financial has signed a strategic alliance with DST International that will partner Princeton’s PAM system with DSTi’s HiDataWarehouse offering. HDW is a hub that collects market and accounting information as an accounting repository and feeds commingled data to downstream applications.
Royal Bank of Canada Selects Vitria for Workflow Management
Royal Bank of Canada will use Vitria’s BusinessWare business process management suite as its global standard for straight-through-processing (STP) messaging. The bank’s RBC Investments wealth management unit will use BusinessWare to enable end-to-end transaction processing for broker/dealers, asset managers and custodians. Phase I of the project involves linking Royalblue’s Fidessa order management front-end to the…
CB.Net Forges Alliance with LogicScope for SSI Accuracy
CB.Net, a London-based provider of bank payments descriptive data, has teamed up with U.K. messaging software provider LogicScope to create an up-to-the-minute database of standard settlement instructions (SSIs). The venture will build on CB.Net’s comprehensive BankSearchPlus payments directory, which was launched at Swift’s Sibos conference in Singapore last month. CB.Net and Logicscope have created a…