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Broadridge Enters Into an Alliance with Radar, Australia’s Leading Independent Proxy Solicitation and Investor Relations Firm
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced that it has signed Radar, Australia’s leading independent proxy solicitor and investor relations firm, as a distributor of its International Shareholder Communications (ISC) portal to the Australian market. Broadridge’s ISC service portal provides optimal vote output for participating corporate issuers or their agents for all shareholder meetings. A web-based service…
EDM Council Brings InvestTech Systems Consulting into the Fold
It has been a while since the last new member joined data industry group the EDM Council, although its faithful following remain committed to the data management cause. This week investment technology, operations and data management solution consultancy InvestTech Systems Consulting has joined the fold. For those readers that may have been out of the…
CetrelSecurities and Aim Software Acquire First Joint Customer
CetrelSecurities, a specialist in providing ASP services to financial institutions with more than 20 active clients using the service, and Aim Software, a global provider of reference data management solutions to the financial industry, today announced that they have acquired a first common customer based on Aim Software’s Gain Golden Copy. Being a regulated company…
Formicary Launches New Version of RiskSeer to Transform and Improve Risk Management Processes
Formicary, a specialist technology integration company for the financial services industry, has launched the latest version of RiskSeer – its integrated Independent Price Verification application. Designed to transform and improve risk management processes, RiskSeer centralises market and trade data to facilitate accurate and timely decision making by the risk, product control and finance units of…
Fighting Back?
The mood in the industry this month seems to be one of serious assertiveness. Not only did market participants give a piece of their minds to data vendors at the bi-annual World Financial Information Conference (WFIC) in Athens, early in October, but the EDM Council also saw an uprising of sorts against the proposals surrounding…
Fincad Launches its Expanded Analytics Suite to Address Market Volatility
Fincad today announced the launch of Fincad Analytics Suite 2010. Fincad has made substantial enhancements to its analytics library in response to credit market disruptions, high volatility and regulatory compliance requirements. Interest rate curve improvements further enhance Fincad’s curve building techniques and add additional flexibility to Analytics Suite products. Responding to market anomalies, these improvements…
Eagle Investment Systems Sets up Shop in Singapore, Adds Thomson Reuters’ Lim and Tan to New Asian Team
In line with the current trend within the data management solution vendor community towards establishing an Asian presence, Eagle Investment Systems has added its own to the mix with the opening of an office in Singapore. The US headquartered subsidiary of Bank of New York Mellon Asset Servicing has decided to establish an on the…
Accuity Incorporates Batch Functionality in the New Version of IBAN Payment Resource to Further Enhance Research Efficiency
Accuity, a provider of payment routing data, AML screening software and services, has launched version 3.1 of IBAN Payment Resource, its online look up tool for validating and converting International Bank Account Numbers (IBANs). The newest version offers important enhancements, including batch processing for hundreds, even thousands of records simultaneously. IBAN Payment Resource’s new batch…
Regulators Continue Scrutiny of Ratings Agencies, As Kroll Plans to Challenge Big Three
The credit ratings agencies have had another hard couple of weeks of it, with the US government hurling criticism at these firms for their perceived contribution to the economic downturn. This attitude however, does not appear to have dissuaded risk consultant Jules Kroll from planning to establish his own ratings agency to rival the big…
Lack of Consistent Sanctions and Risk Customer Screening Standards Exposes Firms to Heightened Compliance Risk
Many large financial institutions are failing to implement consistent policies and procedures for sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) and customer risk screening due to inconsistent, legacy-based systems, according to compliance screening and data management specialists, Datanomic. Fragmented and inconsistent legacy platforms with different criteria and capabilities deployed across multiple departments and/or countries are resulting in…