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Broadridge and NewRiver Extend Agreement on Disclosure Doc E-Delivery

Broadridge Financial Solutions has extended its agreement with NewRiver to provide a database of disclosure documents to assist Broadridge in electronic delivery of regulatory documents to investors. For the past five years, Broadridge has worked with NewRiver and a select number of Broadridge clients for e-delivery of confirming and first-dollar prospectuses. NewRiver sources 23,000 disclosure…

A case of mistaken identity?

Another month, another MiFID-related reference data issue for practitioners to get their knickers in a twist about. As Reference Data Review went to press, several of our moles within the marketplace came to us to express their horror at the proposed Alternative Instrument Identifier (AII) for use in identifying derivatives in transaction reports. One source…

EDM Evolves to Cover Workflow Orchestration, Study Finds

Enterprise data management (EDM) is entering a new phase, progressing from a goal of collating, cleansing and storing data, and evolving into a broader strategy encompassing workflow orchestration and subsequent distribution to downstream applications. This is one of the key findings in a new white paper produced by A-Team Group and sponsored by Reuters. The…

Swift CEO Campos Favours ‘Cautious But Intelligent’ Ref Data Strategy

Reference data is a challenging business, and while it is part of Swift’s strategy, the co-operative is taking a “very cautious” but “intelligent” approach to the space. So says its chief executive officer Lázaro Campos in a wide-ranging and frank interview with Reference Data Review’s sister title A-Team IQ this month. As has been well-documented…

Complex Event Processing – It’s More Than Algo Trading

Part 4 of 4 [Don concludes this series by looking at CEP applications beyond the financial markets] A Few Examples Beyond Capital Markets Financial services is fundamentally about information. As a result, there is probably no end to the amount of use cases which will ultimately take advantage of CEP. At a minimum, wherever there…

QED Unveils Single Back Office Data Source for Asset Managers

In a bid to help its institutional investment clients reduce the cost and complexity of managing data sources, New Jersey headquartered QED Financial Systems has launched QED Data Connection, a solution designed to enable users of its investment accounting system to access a range of middle and back office data from multiple vendors via a…

BoNY Mellon Upgrades Investment Analytics Product Line…

Bank of New York Mellon Asset Servicing has enhanced its Investment Analytics product line, which provides institutional investors with tools to evaluate and oversee a portfolio’s performance, structure, risk exposure and compliance. The enhancements involve expanded data coverage and improved data quality in three areas: sub-prime risk analytics, fixed income derivatives and short term securities,…

Swift Unveils Free SEPA Data Registration Service

Swift has opened the SwiftDirectories Data Update service, a secure and confidential website where financial institutions can maintain their SEPA-related data. Access to this website is open to any appointed employee of a financial institution. Users can register online and update payments-related data belonging to their financial institution whenever required. From the end of December…

Every cloud…

As the “credit crunch” blame game plays itself out, some hefty criticism is being meted out to various quarters of the industry, not least the regulators and the ratings agencies for their alleged failure to act sooner to stem the tide of fall-out from the sub-prime crisis in the US. A lot of people are…

Swift Promises Controlled Migration To ISO 20022 CA Messages

ISO 20022 versions of the Swift messages that have been the foundation for much of the industry’s progress in automating corporate actions are to be made available by the end of Q4 2009 at the latest, under plans recently formulated by the co-operative. There will be a period of co-existence of ISO 20022 and the…