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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…
Fame Teams Up with ClariFi to Enhance Back-Testing Capability
Fame Information Services has forged a marketing alliance with ClariFi, developer of the ModelStation back-testing platform. Under the arrangement, Fame will market ModelStation alongside its own reference and historical data solutions. ModelStation allows investment managers and researchers to perform ‘what-if’ scenario tests on returns and evaluate portfolios at each rebalancing to determine risk.
SS&C Unveils Servers for Handling Reference Data
Trade and portfolio management software provider SS&C Technologies has been quietly developing a pair of server products that can be used to manage data flows into its own applications and those of other application providers. The company is now marketing Pricing Server and Market Data Server alongside its existing Camra, Antares and Altair products. According…
Asset Control Develops Entry-Level Service for Data Management of Single Feed Set-Ups
Asset Control has released AC SmartFeed, an entry-level feed-handler aimed at providing financial institutions with a quick and low-cost way of implementing a single-feed solution. The system performs all data enrichment, storage and distribution functions, allowing the user firm to link its chosen feed to risk, trading room, asset management and STP/security master applications. AC…
XcitekSolutionsPlus Scores XSP Wins At UMB, Oppenheimer
XcitekSolutionsPlus has announced two deals this month involving its corporate actions automation platform. UMB Bank, based in Kansas, has licensed the software company’s web-based eTran module, while Oppenheimer & Co. has agreed to license its XSP software. The deals follow hot on the heels of a win at Credit Lyonnais Securities (USA) in late October….
It’s Been an Eventful Month
It most certainly has. Busy, yes. But chock full of industry events, indeed more than we can realistically keep up with. The Mother Of All Events, though, has to be Sibos, and this year’s was a great success. We used Sibos’s handy Singapore location this year to make a trip east and make the most…
Financial Technologies International Hires Flynn to Lead Professional Services
Financial Technologies International has named Stephen Flynn senior vice president with responsibility for global professional services and systems integrator alliances. Flynn previously spent 20 years at Accenture, most recently with the consulting giant’s STP, integration management and security offerings practice teams.