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DIFC Bags SmartStream Technology For Hosted Data, Processing Offering
The acquisition of UK mid and back office systems vendor SmartStream for £200 million by the Dubai International Financial Centre (DFIC) – owner of the Dubai Stock Exchange – made headlines for a number of reasons. Not the least of these was the fact that the acquisition came just a month after SmartStream was forced…
Interactive Data Restructures in a Bid to Meet Demand for Cross-Enterprise Data Solutions
Interactive Data’s recent restructuring is designed to enable it to “walk the talk” of its “one company” image, according to Ray D’Arcy, its president of sales and marketing, under whom the previously separate Pricing and Reference Data and Real-Time Services sales, client relationship management and client service organisations will now be unified. “Our company has…
Brandes Investment Partners Licenses XSP
Brandes Investment Partners, a global investment advisory firm with $125 billion in assets under management, has licensed the XSP solution for global corporate actions processing.
Quantifi Selected by III Associates for Valuations
Hedge fund manager III Associates has integrated the Quantifi Toolkit into its systems for end-of-day valuations of its structured credit portfolios. Quantifi Toolkit is a model library for structured credit pricing and risk analysis and contains a full suite of market tested and validated models. Coverage includes credit derivatives products and bespoke structures including: CDS,…
Xenomorph Delivers Derivatives Data Management For SGSS Asset Servicing
Xenomorph, real-time analytics and data management solutions provider, has signed a five-year agreement with the asset servicing department at Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS), under which the latter will use Xenomorph’s TimeScape production data management system for its derivatives operations. SGSS’ asset servicing department will use TimeScape to create a single, consistent and centralised source…
London Stock Exchange Enters Reconciliation Game With UnaVista
The London Stock Exchange has launched UnaVista, a global data integration, validation, matching and reconciliation service, designed to help firms identify inconsistencies across any data type. The core of the service is a rules-based engine that enables data to be reconciled from any source and across any business function. UnaVista can be deployed in two…
Avox to Offer Collateral Monitoring Service
From September counterparty data specialist Avox began offering monitoring services for collateral used in open market operations in the Eurosystem. Assets eligible as collateral for Eurosystem monetary policy operations must fulfill certain criteria. A bank must avoid so called “close links”, meaning it must not submit as collateral any asset issued or guaranteed by itself…
Natixis Bleichroeder Chooses Fidelity ActionsXchange for Global Corporate Actions
Natixis Bleichroeder, a New York-based investment bank specialising in the energy, commodities, healthcare and media sectors with offices across the US and affiliates in London and Paris, has signed an agreement for Fidelity ActionsXchange to serve as its global corporate action data partner. ActionsXchange will provide Natixis with cleansed domestic and international equity universe corporate…
A false sense of securities?
Swift’s Sibos event in Boston in early October was the biggest ever (don’t they always say that?) and there was no shortage of involvement from the enterprise data management suppliers and some of the bigger reference data vendors. Even the delegates seemed pretty interested in all things data related, as the strong turnout for the panel…
Panic Abates as FSA Says Firms Won’t Have to Use Alternative Code
The UK Financial Services Authority has calmed market practitioners’ fears about the new Alternative Instrument Identifier (AII) for use in identifying some derivative instruments in MiFID transaction reports (Reference Data Review, September 2007) by clarifying that individual firms will not have to use the code for the time being. Rather, reporting entities will just have…