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ECB’s Reference Data Utility Plans Not Practical Enough, Say RDR Readers
It seems that the majority of Reference Data Review readers out there remain sceptical of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) proposed reference data utility. According to the results of out October reader poll, 43% of you do not think the proposals are practical enough to warrant being considered a desirable concept for the market. The…
Pricing Partners Moves its Headquarters to Paris’s Financial Area
Pricing Partners announced today that it will move its headquarters to central Paris’s downtown area in November 2009 as a result of impressive growth and a consistent demand for products and services. The new address will be: Pricing Partners, 6 rue Rougemont, 75009 Paris. Pricing Partners is expanding at a rapid rate, adding more staff,…
StatPro Adds Grobien to European Team as Biz Dev Manager for Germany
Following the appointment of Tim Dennis as European sales director in June this year, portfolio analytics and data solution vendor StatPro has added another new recruit to its European team: Mark Grobien as business development manager for Germany. Grobien will be based in Paris but will be charged with serving the German speaking markets in…
Membership Has its Privileges: Business Entity Data
By Marc Alvarez, senior director, Reference Data Infrastructure, Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data At the heart of working with market and reference data is a well recognised fundamental principle that “organisations issue one or more securities that are quoted on one or more markets by one or more market participants”. This one statement sums…
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…
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…