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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…
GlobeOp Aims to Provide More Transparency Around OTC Derivative Valuations
As part of its ongoing push in the OTC derivatives valuations space, GlobeOp Financial Services has added on demand access to valuation and reconciliation processing data via its integrated OTC derivatives processing platform, GoOTC. According to the vendor, its fund manager clients can gain increased transparency across OTC trade lifecycles and can demonstrate independent portfolio…
GoldenSource Releases New Version of EDM Suite with Upgraded Pricing Capabilities
EDM vendor GoldenSource has upgraded its flagship solution by building in new features to help its clients deal with tougher risk management requirements and regulatory developments around the pricing of financial instruments. To this end, version 8.2 of its EDM suite includes workflow and validation tools aimed at increasing flexibility and transparency across all pricing…
Should the ECB be Using Existing Data Channels and Standards for a Reference Data Utility?
Ahead of the panel discussion on the subject at next week’s Sibos conference in Hong Kong, the European Central Bank’s (ECB) proposals have provoked yet more feedback from Reference Data Review readers. Most agree that starting from scratch in building such a utility would be a difficult endeavour and that the central bank should instead…
DekaBank Goes Live With SunGard’s Asset Arena Compliance
DekaBank, the German savings bank finance group’s central asset manager, has implemented SunGard’s Asset Arena Compliance solution to provide back office support for all its pre-trade, post-trade and post-net asset value (NAV) compliance requirements. Asset Arena Compliance gives DekaBank a standardised and flexible compliance solution that can help support its future growth plans. Asset Arena…
S&P’s ABSXchange Platform Increases Instrument Coverage and Customer Base
As Fitch ups its game in the asset backed securities (ABS) market, so too is Standard & Poor’s with the upgrade of its structured finance platform, ABSXchange. The platform, which it bought in August 2007, has been undergoing a series of upgrades this year, the latest of which includes access to a complete cash flow…