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DClear Reference Data Services Gain Significant Momentum a Year on From their Launch
SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist, today announced significant progress for its DClear business, a year after its launch. With reference data on the agenda again at this year’s Sibos conference, a utility service model providing clean, consistent reference data as a service has come to the fore as the industry wrestles with data…
Cadis Solvency II Risk Platform Answer to Group-Wide Compliance
Cadis, the global EDM specialist, today announced its Solvency II risk platform. The platform will provide insurers with the confidence of complete data governance lineage and the level of transparency, visibility and data quality being demanded by tough regulator scrutiny. Daniel Simpson, CEO of Cadis said: “The capital adequacy requirement of Solvency II is the…
DTCC and SWIFT Launch ISO 20022 Corporate Actions Messaging Pilot Program
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,500 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, announced today that Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) has agreed to participate in a new ISO 20022 corporate actions messaging pilot program. The pilot program being run by DTCC will…
Fitch Solutions Appoints Rob Shiell to its Strategic Partnership Team
Fitch Solutions is pleased to announce the appointment of Rob Shiell as a Director in its Strategic Partnership team. Rob will be responsible for further developing partnerships with companies in the fund administration and custodian sector across the EMEA region, offering them bespoke solutions to help integrate Fitch data into their own content and technology…
XSP and Decillion Group Has Been Selected by Daiwa Capital Markets for Global Corporate Actions Processing
XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions software, announced today at SIBOS 2010 that Daiwa Capital Markets has selected the XSP v5 solution to automate its Corporate Actions processing via the Decillion Group platform. Decillion Group, a banking software solutions provider and operator of the largest SWIFT Service Bureau in the APAC region,…
Go East Young Man
They say timing is everything, so perhaps it was fortuitous that I managed to catch up with David Stanton – Cable & Wireless Worldwide’s man in Singapore – just a few days before news of Singapore Exchange’s interest in the Australian Stock Exchange hit the wires. But as I’ve noted here in the past few…
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…