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Carne Platform Aids Traditional and Hedge Fund Managers Navigate Complex Valuation Best Practices
Fund management advisory firm Carne Global Financial Services has launched its Hedge & Traditional Fund Valuation ‘Best Practice’ Product, which is aimed at assisting hedge fund, private wealth and traditional asset managers in following valuation best practice across all asset classes and products. Carne Global claims that these best practices will help fund managers to…
Aim Software Releases Gain Version 4.1
Aim Software has released a new version of its flagship data management product Gain with extended facilities for golden copy management and new support for Windows Server 2008/Windows Vista. The main drivers behind the upgrade were market and customer requests for new functionalities and to further reduce time to market for customer projects, says Martin…
IBM Data Governance Council Discusses Industry Best Practices for Management of Critical Financial Data
The IBM Data Governance Council, which was set up three years ago by IBM and comprises 50 financial market firms, is currently discussing establishing best practices for the industry on how to manage critical financial data. The council plans to build what it calls an “information governance framework”, which will be based on their existing…
Long Live STP?
This month I received clarification from our readers that despite years of hearing its doom foretold, STP is not yet dead and buried. In fact, it’s a key driver for investment in reference data management solutions, according to more than half of the respondents to Reference Data Review’s recent online readers’ poll. When asked to…
Swift Confirms Plans for BIC in Business Entity Identifier Space
Following months of industry speculation about whether it had dropped the idea altogether, Swift has finally confirmed its plans for the Bank Identifier Code (BIC) in the area of business entity identification. Swift indicated at the start of the year that it was reviewing the business case for introducing an international business entity identifier (IBEI)…
DTCC to Spearhead XBRL and ISO Semantic Interoperability Drive
Following the announcement last month that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued rules requiring large publicly held US companies to adopt extensible business reporting language (XBRL) for their financial reporting, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has released plans to spearhead a campaign for semantic interoperability between XBRL and ISO message types…
Siperian Appoints Jagannathan and Roggensack to Senior Management
Siperian has appointed Ravi Jagannathan as vice president of product management, responsible for identifying requirements for new and existing products, and Randy Roggensack as vice president of North American sales. Prior to his appointment at Siperian, Jagannathan was head of product management at Kickfire, a startup company that builds next-generation database appliances. Prior to Kickfire,…
STP and Operational Efficiency are Main Drivers for Investment in Reference Data, Say RDR Readers
According to a poll of Reference Data Review’s readers, the main driver for investment in reference data management projects is an increase in straight through processing (STP) and operational efficiency. The poll, which was sponsored by Syn~ from Coexis, indicates that despite the rumours of its ‘death’, STP is still very much a concern in…
Carne Launches Hedge and Traditional Fund Valuation Best Practices Product
Fund management advisory firm Carne Global Financial Services has launched its Hedge & Traditional Fund Valuation ‘Best Practice’ Product, which is aimed at assisting hedge fund, private wealth and traditional asset managers in following valuation best practice across all asset classes and products. Carne Global claims that these best practices will help fund managers to…
Siperian and GalaxE.Solutions Partner for Employee Master Solution
Business process and decision support systems vendor GalaxE.Solutions and master data management (MDM) platform vendor Siperian have entered into an partnership agreement under which GalaxE.Solutions will be a provider of an employee master solution enabled by Siperian MDM Hub. According to the firms, the enterprise business alliance agreement will help companies quickly deploy the employee…