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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…
A-Team Analysis: A New Dawn for Managed Reference Data Services?
The enterprise data management (EDM) systems marketplace has entered a new phase, as a rash of recent corporate activity and a general maturing of the providers and their offerings is enabling speedier implementations and faster returns, engendering new confidence in the value of EDM projects. The managed data services proposition has also been injected with…
Oracle and BEA … A Low Latency Lowdown
Oracle caused a bit of excitement at the end of last week when it made an unsolicited bid for BEA Systems. BEA’s rejected it of course, saying it undervalues the company. All standard procedure. We’ll see what Oracle’s next move is. But if the transaction does happen, it will bring together some useful technologies that…
Perception is Everything!
Last month, Low-Latency.com ran an online poll asking whether Microsoft or Sun Microsystems was better at offering low latency solutions. The result: 30 percent went with Sun, seven percent with Microsoft. But the majority – 63 percent – reckoned neither company is a player in this space. I have to say I feel a little…
What Goes Around, Comes Around
If you’ve been in the industry as long as I’ve been here, then you too probably are aware that many new hot concepts have a familiar, and dated, ring to them. I was at a WFIC session on direct feeds last week when a panelist from JP Morgan Chase commented that direct feeds caused him…