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Interactive Data Teams up with Pluris to Provide Daily Independent Valuations for Municipal Auction Rate Securities

Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business now offers clients daily valuations for Municipal Auction Rate Securities (ARS) including Student Loan Auction Rate Securities (SLARS), from Pluris Valuation Advisors LLC, a provider of market-based valuations of illiquid securities. “Interactive…

SmartStream Launches New Version of TLM Corporate Actions, Adds Solution to Common Platform

Back office processing solution vendor SmartStream Technologies has upgraded its Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) Corporate Actions solution in order to realise cost savings and efficiencies by bringing it onto a common platform with the rest of its offerings. Paul Phillips, business development consultant at the vendor, explains to Reference Data Review that the upgrade has…

Interactive Data Announces Change in Financial Leadership

Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors, today announced that Andrew J. Hajducky III has resigned as executive vice president, treasurer and chief financial officer to pursue new opportunities, effective immediately. Christine A. Sampson, the Company’s vice president of finance…

DTCC, SWIFT and XBRL US Launch U.S. Stakeholder Group as Part of Issuer to Investor: Corporate Actions Initiative

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), SWIFT and XBRL US announced today the creation of a Stakeholder Group as a part of its Issuer to Investor: Corporate Actions initiative, which was launched in May 2009, to improve the processing of corporate actions data in the U.S. Composed of key players from the industry, the…

SunGard’s Brokerage and Clearance Solutions Primed for Options Symbology Initiative

SunGard has completed the required remediation and industry testing preparation of its brokerage and clearance solutions for the Option Symbology Initiative (OSI). OSI will help correct the limitations of an outdated symbology and overhaul the existing method of identifying exchange-listed options contracts to improve processing efficiencies and provide the ability to identify a broader range…

ITG Selects Asset Control’s AC Plus Data Management Platform to Support Asset Growth Initiatives

Specialized agency brokerage and financial technology firm Investment Technology Group has selected Asset Control’s AC Plus data management platform to provide ITG with global, multi-asset instrument data in support of the firm’s growth initiatives. AC Plus will provide ITG with a centralized, scalable reference data and pricing architecture that meets ITG’s time-to-market requirements and supports…

XSP Now Offers Corporate Actions Data from the Australian Securities Exchange via XSP v5 Platform

XSP, the leading global provider of Corporate Actions processing software, announced today that it is working with the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to take delivery and process its ReferencePoint™ Corporate Actions data product through the XSP™ v5 platform. The XSP v5 platform is a state-of-the-art solution developed to automate each step of the global Corporate…

Erste Group Appoints CMA DataVision for CDS Valuations, Risk Management and Trading Support

CMA, the credit information specialist, today announced that Erste Group Bank AG, one of Central & Eastern Europe’s largest financial services groups, has selected CMA DataVision to provide independent CDS price verification for use across their Valuations, Risk and Trading departments. Harald Müller, Head of Structuring & Credit Markets at Erste Group, commented “We looked…

Asset Control’s AC Invest Introduces Financial Institutions to a New Role-Based Data Management Paradigm

Asset Control, the world-wide leader in financial data management solutions, is launching AC Invest, a new web-based data management platform that enables financial institutions to quickly and cost-effectively address their increasingly complex data management requirements. AC Invests’ powerful logic engine combined with its intuitive interface give users control of all stages of the data management…

Sophis Expands in Asia with Beijing Office and Key Hires

Sophis, a leading provider of cross-asset, front-to-back portfolio and risk management solutions, today announced the establishment of its first office in China and the appointment of two new Sales Directors in Asia, as well as the continued expansion of its Hong Kong office. New Office in Beijing Sophis has opened an office in Beijing, located…