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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…
Evaluations Expert Rieger Slips Through Interactive Data’s Fingers
Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations’ James “JR” Rieger will not, as first announced, be joining Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data as vice president of evaluated services. Interactive Data was forced to issue a statement contradicting its earlier announcement when Rieger informed them he was pursuing another opportunity.
Leaper, Erman Boost Eagle’s Sales, Professional Services Capabilities
Bank of New York Mellon-owned Eagle Investment Systems has appointed Robert Leaper and Robert Erman to its senior management team. Leaper, senior vice president of global sales, will be responsible for extending Eagle’s business globally around its investment accounting, data management and performance measurement solutions. As senior vice president of professional services for Eagle, Erman…
McGee Suffers Same Fate as Simon as Corero Restructuring Makes CEO Role Redundant
Jarlath McGee has agreed to resign his role as chief executive and board member at Corero, formerly Mondas, the troubled provider of among other solutions the Radica CAPS corporate actions processing system. McGee had himself earlier engineered the removal of Tim Simon, Mondas’s founder. This move follows Corero’s restructuring into two operating divisions – financial…
DPC DATA Adds New Location in Philippines for Securities-Related Data Outsourcing
DPC DATA has launched a new facility in metropolitan Manila to support growth in its data outsourcing business. A vendor of securities data, DPC DATA also provides offshore data management services. The new location brings greater capacity for data processing, strategic knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) and custom IT development, it reckons. The new location is…
Broadridge to Target Counterparty Data
Having teamed with GoldenSource and IBM for the initial launch of its global managed reference data solution to provide instrument reference data (Reference Data Review, May 2007) Broadridge Financial Solutions, formerly ADP Brokerage Services Group, is leveraging the expertise and functionality that exists in the GoldenSource product to launch a counterparty data service in Q1…