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EDI Adds Unit Trust Dividends to UK Dividend Service
Exchange Data International (EDI), provider of reference and corporate actions data, has integrated Unit Trust dividend information into its UK Dividend feed. Available as an additional set of the UK Dividend feed or on its own, the Unit Trust Dividend feed gives access to information like Group 1 and Group 2 distributions and equalisation rates…
Xtrakter Appoints Jinks Director of Commercial Operations
Xtrakter, part of the ICMA group of companies, has appointed Richard Jinks to the position of director of commercial operations. Jinks, who joins Xtrakter on March 3, will report directly to the chief executive and be a member of Xtrakter’s Executive Committee. Jinks previously held senior positions at Misys, Omgeo, Checkfree (formerly Heliograph) and most…
XSP Hires Rabon as Program Director, Maclean as Senior Business Analyst
Brian Rabon has joined XSP, provider of corporate actions software, as program director. Rabon joins XSP from Infinity Property and Casualty Corporation, where he was programming team leader, responsible for managing and developing a team of Java/.Net developers. In this newly-created role, Rabon will be responsible for all program management initiatives impacting XSP’s global IT…
A Night At The OPRA Maybe Ain’t So Bad
Please excuse the headline … I wanted to be cute and grab some attention. When it comes to market data rates, OPRA – the Options Price Reporting Authority – makes the headlines that low latency vendors (and industry analysts) love to cite – because the numbers are so frighteningly big. The reality, though, is a…
Swiss Life Funds Live with Aquin Data Management, Reporting Platform
Swiss Life Funds (Group Swiss Life), a subsidiary of Swiss Life Investment Management Holding, Zürich, has implemented Aquin Components’ central data management and reporting platform to support consolidation of fund and historic data and unified fund reporting, DVS. It took just 10 months to fully implement the DVS platform, providing Swiss Life Funds with a…
Telekurs Financial, Euroclear UK & Ireland Sign Data Supply Agreement
Telekurs Financial and Euroclear UK & Ireland have signed an agreement for the supply of certain static securities data available at Euroclear UK & Ireland. Euroclear UK & Ireland is the central securities depositary (CSD) of the UK and Ireland, and operates the multi-currency, real-time settlement system processing transactions in all UK securities, Irish equities…
EDI Adds Structured Products to Corporate Actions Database
Exchange Data International (EDI), a specialist in the aggregation of reference and corporate actions data, has integrated structured products into its corporate actions database and Security Reference File services. Thus far EDI has integrated the following instruments into its database: Close Ended Funds, Investment/Income Trusts or Listed Investment Companies, Exchange Traded Funds, Principal Protected Notes,…
The good, the bad and the ugly (news)…
News that Credit Suisse has been forced to suspend a group of traders in its structured credit trading division after “mis-markings and pricing errors” contributed towards another sizeable write-down serves as a further reminder – if one were needed – that ensuring accuracy and transparency in valuations of complex and hard to price instruments is…
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Goes Live on ValueLink OTC Service
UK-based ValueLink has extended its provision of data services to BNY Mellon Asset Servicing to include OTC counterparty price collection and data reporting. The service for BNY Mellon, which ValueLink has been providing since the first week of December 2007, following extensive testing, is similar to that which the vendor has been providing to BNP…
Netik Buys CRDS, Replaces BNY With VC, Pursues Service Vision
The question of what the merger of Bank of New York and Mellon would mean for the two data management vendors owned by the banks, Netik and Eagle Investment Systems respectively, has been answered, as Netik reveals its new primary investor as Symphony Technology Group. The two-part deal orchestrated by Netik (with Marlin & Associates…