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Eagle Lands Legacy Replacement Deal at Boutique Firm Trilogy
US-based Trilogy Global Advisors, a boutique emerging markets equities fund manager, is implementing technology from Eagle Investment Systems to help manage its portfolio. The Eagle suite of products will enable Trilogy to retire its legacy accounting system. According to John Lehner, president of Eagle Investment Systems, there are a couple of reasons for Trilogy’s decision…
Avox Includes Fitch Credit Opinions in Counterparty Data
Avox and global ratings agency Fitch Ratings have signed a co-operation agreement to enable linkages to Fitch company identifiers and credit opinions within Avox’s counterparty data offering. Avox supplements its clients’ data records with information from Fitch Ratings as part of its counterparty data validation, cleansing and maintenance service. Ken Price, CEO of Avox, says:…
Reuters Launches Counterparty Service, Ties with Complinet
A month or two later than originally planned Reuters has taken the wraps off its counterparty data service, launching Reuters DataScope for Counterparty and Compliance and trumpeting a pre-launch customer signing and advanced talks with a number of other potential clients. The vendor has also unveiled its specialist partner for embedded sanctions lists as Complinet….
EDM Council Takes Baby Steps Towards Ontology and Metrics
The EDM Council has recently taken steps towards achieving two key requirements for industry-wide implementation of enterprise data management – a standardised data ontology and data quality metrics. Members of the EDM Council are participating in a working group formed by the DTCC to define and standardise the data terms and definitions included in its…
Reuters Enterprise Data Likely to Be Reference Data Force Post-Merger
Thomson Corp.’s agreed acquisition of Reuters, which remains subject to regulatory approvals, would essentially ‘reverse’ Reuters into Thomson Financial, creating a financial information business larger than current market leader Bloomberg (Market Data Insight, May 2007). Following the proposed merger – which envisages Reuters CEO Tom Glocer taking the helm of the overall Thomson-Reuters corporation and…
Interactive Data Leverages Pricing, Reference Data for MiFID Offer
Interactive Data Corp is leveraging the assets of its Pricing and Reference Data unit, as well as those of its Real-Time Services group, to offer a range of services aimed at helping clients meet their obligations under the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). Interactive Data believes its real-time and reference data services units…
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SmartCo, a French software house, and Telekurs Financial have integrated Telekurs’ Valordata Feed (VDF) data flow into SmartCo’s Smart Financial Data Hub. Smart Financial Data Hub is designed to enable centralised data management, data quality control, access authorisation, real-time data analysis and the management of multi-contributor functionality. “We are always interested in interfacing our data…
CMA Rolls Out Full Term Structures for CMA DataVision
CMA has enhanced CMA DataVision, its same-day consensus-based price verification data service for CDS, indices and tranches. Working with several clients and a team of industry experts, CMA says it has developed a multi-step modelling process to enable it to derive price points and generate a full-term structure with a high degree of accuracy. Using…
Interactive Data Closes Acquisition Of Xcitek Market Data
Interactive Data Corporation has closed the acquisition of the assets comprising the market data division of Xcitek and the market data assets of its affiliate Xcitax for $25.3 million in cash (Reference Data Review, March and April 2007). As part of the initial integration efforts, Xcitek’s services will be marketed as Interactive Data Xcitek.
Netik, Thomson Ally to Take On Single Vendor Accounting/Data Players
Financial data warehouse provider Netik and Thomson Financial have teamed to integrate Thomson Portia and Netik InterView, in order to provide investment managers with what the partners say is a best of breed solution for investment accounting, data management and reporting. According to the two vendors, while firms have historically been limited to a single…