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Citadel Gets New CEO, Peter Little
As reported in Reference Data Review‘s sister title A-Team IQ this quarter, buy side focused EDM vendor Citadel has a new investor and CEO – Peter Little. Little’s arrival follows the departure of former managing director Jean Williams, after a disagreement between her and the other Citadel directors about the future direction of the company. Little…
LakeFront Data Ventures Adds Associates, Touts Service-Oriented Data Management Approach
The progress of LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV), the specialist data management consultancy led by former SunGard EDM man Dale Richards, appears to be gathering pace. Richards reports that the company has “been engaged by a number of players across the whole ecosystem” – including a major Wall Street bank, a large Canadian pension fund, a major…
Politics and Data Ownership Major Issues in Implementing EDM, Sibos Delegates Told
The panel session on enterprise data management at Swift’s Sibos conference in Boston earlier this month was a little light on detail to satisfy the true EDM enthusiast, but as a reference data 101 it was nonetheless a lively and interactive debate, ably facilitated by the EDM Council’s Mike Atkin. A series of audience digivotes…
Odyssey Gears Up to Make Bigger Splash in EDM Marketplace
Wealth and asset management systems specialist Odyssey is stepping up its focus on the enterprise data management systems marketplace, having recognised that the EDM capabilities it has created to support the implementation of its core applications are of value as a standalone solution. When Odyssey, which was founded in Luxembourg in 1995 and has its…
CUSIP Master File Database Available Online
The CUSIP Service Bureau (CSB) Master File database is now available through Standard & Poor’s SecurityMaster Services, a new web-based delivery platform designed to provide clients with near real-time access to a variety of securities data. With Standard & Poor’s SecurityMaster Services platform, clients will be able to access data directly from the CSB database…
JPMorgan to Roll Out New Corporate Actions Reporting
JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services has completed a pilot of Announcement Capture, a new service which captures global corporate actions announcements from multiple sources and generates a “golden record” for client reporting purposes. Announcement Capture is part of JPMorgan’s global STP programme to standardise, consolidate and deliver timely, comprehensive and accurate corporate actions announcement information to…
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Improves Corporate Actions Risk Management Service
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has enhanced its Corporate Actions Online Services offering with the launch of a new global web-based notification and response system. The upgrade – available via BNY Mellon Asset Servicing’s web-based information delivery and transaction platform – is designed to give clients greater flexibility for managing corporate events, such as tender offers, conversions, mergers,…
Globalisation Makes Life Harder for Corporate Actions Processors, Sibos Panellists Say
Despite the efforts of industry groups and standardisers in recent years, the job of processing corporate actions is getting harder, not easier. Greater levels of international investment and the growing complexity of the products in which clients are investing are key reasons for this, suggested Justin Chapman, senior vice president at Northern Trust, during a…
Will EC, DoJ Reuters-Thomson Inquiries Strike at the Heart of the Matter: RICs?
The European Commission’s “in-depth investigation into Thomson’s takeover of Reuters” – announced earlier this month – is only to be expected. Whether it will put a dampener on things – by either quashing the deal or insisting on some very visible ‘sacrifice’ by the parties involved – remains to be seen. Mechanically speaking, the EC investigation – whose announcement coincided…
ICMA Ltd Plans Data Products, Extension Of TRAX2 to More Instruments
Data products will be at the heart of a new raft of offerings being developed by ICMA Ltd, the market services division of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA). In an effort to more effectively utilise the data assets it has acquired through its provision of the TRAX trade matching and transaction reporting system for…