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Slovakia’s Tatra Bank Deploys SuperDerivatives
Tatra Bank, one of Slovakia’s highest rated banks and a member of the Raiffeisen Zentralbank Osterreich AG (RZB) Group, is deploying SuperDerivatives’ platform for commodities derivatives. SD-CM, SuperDerivatives’ benchmark system for commodity options, provides real-time market prices, risk management and analytics for options on any traded commodity including energy products, metals, and agriculture commodities.
Xignite, Telekurs Forge Corporate Actions Data Distribution Deal
Xignite, provider of financial web services for mission-critical corporate applications, has formed a partnership with Telekurs Financial to provide reciprocal services integrating Xignite’s financial web services with Telekurs Valordata Feed (VDF). The partnership with Xignite will enhance the accuracy of its existing XigniteMaster and web service by using Telekurs VDF’s master data and corporate actions…
Reuters Adds Hourly Corporate Actions Data to DataScope Select
Reuters has added an enhancement to Reuters DataScope Select which will see its corporate actions data updated hourly, rather than once a day. Users will be able to monitor portfolios more actively by choosing how often they receive updates and paying according to the quantity of data they use. Reuters clients will now be able…
Harvard Management Licenses XSP v5 Corporate Actions Software
Harvard Management Company (HMC) has licensed the XSP v5 corporate actions platform. HMC has also licensed XSP’s web-based eTRAN (Electronic Tracking Response and Notifications) and Swift ISO messaging modules for the notification and response capture of elections processing. The XSP v5 platform is built around a service-oriented architecture (SOA), utilising Microsoft .Net components and web…
A perfect match?
The acquisition by Markit of Swapswire garnered considerable attention by virtue simply of being the latest in a seemingly never-ending stream of acquisitions by the data and valuations provider. True to form, with this venture Markit puts itself at the leading edge of the capital markets’ preoccupation – improving the automation of OTC derivatives. In…
A-Team Analysis: Time to Look for Alternatives to ISO for Standards?
Unrest among industry participants about the efficacy of ISO standards creation is reaching a peak as the failure of the formal process to keep pace with the reality of market requirements looks set to prompt a rethink about the best way to create standards for financial markets. Whether there is a better method for solving…
Patent Pending Ref Data Utility Offers Risk Mitigation, Seeks Backers
The inventors of an ambitious plan to create a risk mitigating Reference Data Utility for the securities industry are entering a new phase of marketing for their business venture in the belief that financial institutions can be galvanised by the lure of reduced capital and collateral requirements into solving once and for all the age-old…
CB.Net Adds SCT Data to BankSearchPlus
The European Payments Council (EPC) SEPA Credit Transfer Adherence Register of Participants is now available in CB.Net’s BankSearchPlus and in The S€PA Directory service it launched in partnership with LogicaCMG. CB.Net was chosen by the EPC to provide and manage the centralised repository for the EPC SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) and SEPA Direct Debit (SDD)…
PolarLake, CounterpartyLink Forge Alliance as PolarLake Adds Business Analyst Integration
Provider of reference data distribution products PolarLake and client and legal entity data specialist CounterpartyLink have entered into an alliance with the aim of better meeting the needs of mutual clients and prospects. John Randles, CEO of PolarLake, says while the PolarLake RDD (Reference Data Distribution) product “works with all forms of reference data”, the…
We’re loud and we’re proud
In preparing for our excellent and very well received Reference Data Review @ FIMA online daily news service for the FIMA 2007 event in London earlier this month, we interviewed some of the data management movers and shakers who were set to speak at the conference to find out how they were feeling about the…