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Trillium Software and Syncsort Team Up for Data Quality Enhancements to DMExpress
Data quality solution vendor Trillium Software and data integration, protection and sorting software vendor Syncsort have designed a software-based application connector that links the two vendors’ offerings together. The connector therefore links the Trillium Software System data quality product with DMExpress, Syncsort’s data integration and extract, transform and load (ETL) solution. The partnership agreement is…
Majority of RDR Readers Facing Decreased Data Management Budgets for This Year
The majority of Reference Data Review readers will have to do more with less this year in terms of budget for their data management projects, according to the results of our latest reader poll. The respondents to our January poll indicate that 62% of readers are facing cuts to their budgets for 2009. The financial…
Kanji Pitamber Selects GFI Fenics FX for Pricing and Risk Management
Indian financial services group Kanji Pitamber & Co has selected GFI Fenics FX, a pricing and risk management system for foreign exchange options from GFI Group, for use in its Mumbai head office. According to head of currency options at Kanji Pitamber, Unnati Parekh, the firm licensed the system, which covers pricing and analytics, in…
Capita Financial Group Selects Interactive Data for Pricing and Reference Data
Outsourcing service provider Capita Financial Group has selected Interactive Data to become its primary data vendor for pricing and reference data. Karl Midl, programme director at Capita Financial Group, which is a subsidiary of Capita Group, indicates that the data feed has already gone live for data including corporate actions and income data. Midl explains…
SEC and FASB Work Towards Mark to Market Guidelines
Despite the ongoing controversy surrounding the US mark to market accounting rules over recent months, legislators have thus far refused to give up on them. Last week, the chairman of the US Senate Banking Committee, Christopher Dodd, confirmed that the rules would be modified but the underlying standards would remain in place. The rules have…
XSP Promotes Fullam to Senior Director of Business Strategy, Relocates Him to NYC
Corporate actions software vendor XSP has promoted its current principal consultant Paul Fullam to the position of senior director of business strategy and relocated him from its London office to its New York office. In his new role, Fullam will assume responsibility for relationships with key industry associations and organisations such as ISITC and Swift,…
Accuity Completes Acquisition of CB.Net
Accuity has completed the acquisition of payments reference data vendor CB.net as part of its efforts to bolster its customer base and extend its offering. Hugh Jones, president of payment routing data vendor Accuity, explains that CB.Net’s existing relationships with the European Payments Council (EPC) and the Euro Banking Association (EBA) were of particular appeal….
NYSE Euronext and Eurex Indicate Concern Over Derivatives Regulation, CDS CCP Debate Continues
Two of the contenders in the credit default swap (CDS) clearing counterparty (CCP) race, NYSE Euronext and Eurex, have expressed their concern about a draft bill in the US aimed at expanding derivatives regulation. The firms are worried that the regulation, which would require mandatory clearing of most OTC products, would have the unintended consequence…
EDI and S&P Partner to Launch Financial Corporate Action Data Portal Company
Exchange Data International (EDI) and Standard & Poor’s have banded together to launch a new company aimed at providing financial institutions with corporate action and dividend data for companies listed globally. The new company, which has been dubbed FinDataPortal (FDP), launched in November last year and is aimed at providing low cost access to this…
Data Practices Have to Change to Support Risk Management, Says A-Team and GoldenSource
Given the current financial climate, a large proportion of the financial services industry is engaged in changing its approach to data management in order to better support risk management, according to recently published research by A-Team Group. The research, which was commissioned by EDM vendor GoldenSource, indicates that there is a general feeling within the…