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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…
New PolarLake Apps Offer Insight Into Downstream Data Quality
Dublin-based integration vendor PolarLake is touting a suite of business intelligence applications it says are complementary to its reference data distribution application, PolarLake RDD (Reference Data Review, March 2007). According to the vendor’s CEO John Randles, these applications are designed “to give the business confidence in the integrity of data to downstream systems”. PolarLake’s Data…
Reuters Will Leverage RMDS Installed Base, Software Partners, to Secure Growth of New EDM Platform
Reuters has set some aggressive growth targets for the Reuters Enterprise Platform (REP) – launched officially at Sibos in Boston earlier this month, and envisaged as a complete enterprise data management solution. According to Gary Barr, its global head of EDM, one client is live already, and a second is expected to be live by the…
CounterpartyLink Provides Legal Entity Data to Alacra, Joins Money Transfer Networks Association
Alacra, a provider of online business information solutions, has signed an alliance agreement with CounterpartyLink, supplier of global client, counterparty and issuer legal entity reference data. Through this alliance agreement, Alacra’s Concordance and Compliance customers will have access to CounterpartyLink’s full list of maintained reference data. This data is collected from sources, and maintained to…
A-Team Analysis: Future of IBEI in Question as Eight Countries Vote it Down; Could the BIC Be the Answer?
The results of the second ballot among national markets on ISO 16372 International Business Entity Identifier (IBEI) are in – and with eight countries voting against and six for (plus three abstentions and four no votes), the future’s not looking very bright for the standard. That said, as one industry observer puts it, “it’s not dead…
Interactive Data Restructures in a Bid to Meet Demand for Cross-Enterprise Data Solutions
Interactive Data’s recent restructuring is designed to enable it to “walk the talk” of its “one company” image, according to Ray D’Arcy, its president of sales and marketing, under whom the previously separate Pricing and Reference Data and Real-Time Services sales, client relationship management and client service organisations will now be unified. “Our company has…
Brandes Investment Partners Licenses XSP
Brandes Investment Partners, a global investment advisory firm with $125 billion in assets under management, has licensed the XSP solution for global corporate actions processing.
Quantifi Selected by III Associates for Valuations
Hedge fund manager III Associates has integrated the Quantifi Toolkit into its systems for end-of-day valuations of its structured credit portfolios. Quantifi Toolkit is a model library for structured credit pricing and risk analysis and contains a full suite of market tested and validated models. Coverage includes credit derivatives products and bespoke structures including: CDS,…