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Capco Re-Engineers Outsourcing Platform as SOA Draws on Opensource, Grid and Web Services
Capco has begun a project to re-engineer the technology infrastructure supporting its provision of managed reference data services, and plans to draw on opensource and grid technologies as well as Web Services, to improve integration with its clients’ operations. The provider’s aim is to improve automation and build in greater scalability to the platform, in…
HSBC Securities Services First Phase Live on CheckFree eVent
HSBC Securities Services (HSS) has implemented CheckFree’s eVent solution to deliver automated corporate actions processing for its investment administration clients. eVent is live for data cleansing and event capture, interfacing to data vendor feeds, static data sources and custodians for Swift messaging. Going forward, HSBC will roll out the eVent system to provide end to…
FT Interactive Data Adds Enhancements to Bank Loan Pricing Service
FT Interactive Data has enhanced its bank loan pricing service, which pro-vides clients with access to independent valuations of syndicated bank loans and now also automates the delivery of refinancing, termination and substantial amendments to loans, as well as the effective date of the change. Bank loan prices are provided by Markit Group and drawn…
Bisys Teams with Markit for Independent Derivatives Pricing
BISYS Alternative Investment Services (BISYS) has entered into an agreement for the independent pricing of complex over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives with Markit Group. The integration of Markit Portfolio Valuations and the BISYS platform enhances the existing relationship between the two companies, which was established in 2004 to strengthen BISYS’ capabilities in the area of credit pricing.
CMA DataVision CDS Prices Available Via Sophis VALUE
Sophis has developed an interface to enable users of its VALUE buy side platform to have direct access to CMA DataVision, CMA’s same day closing credit default swap (CDS) prices. Meanwhile, CMA has announced that its price discovery service CMA QuoteVision can now parse Loan Credit Default Swaps (LCDS) quotes. The LCDS enhancement to CMA…
European Firms to Spend €€30m on CA Data Scrubbing by 2010
Financial institutions in Continental Europe spent some €200 million on internal and external corporate actions solutions in 2006, with 75 per cent of that spend going on inhouse development, according to a recent report from analyst Celent, Corporate Actions Automation in Continental Europe. Celent expects this proportion to decline to 55 per cent by 2010,…
Insight Investment Operations Migrated to Northern Trust
Insight Investment’s operations have been successfully migrated to the Northern Trust platform, for more than 600 portfolios, following the 2005 announcement of their outsourcing partnership. Northern Trust provides Insight with every aspect of post-trade execution support including trade processing and settlement, data management, reconciliation, portfolio recordkeeping, client valuations and reporting and performance measurement and attribution.
EDI Nearly Doubles GlobeTax’s e-TaxData Online Reference Data Product
Exchange Data International Limited (EDI), provider of international securities data, together with GlobeTax, provider of outsourced withholding tax services have announced the scaling up of the online market reference data product e-TaxData Online, adding an additional 71 markets of issue to the existing 91 markets already covered. This launch comes less than a year after…
2007: A good year for EDM?
The good news to kick off the year with is that reference data is getting more important. It is a major component of the recently announced wide-ranging HSBC enterprise data and technology deal we are told. Elsewhere in this issue of Reference Data Review there are further indications of this positive trend: a rock solid…
Microsoft’s MiFID Pitch Touts TAP Among Partner Solutions
Microsoft has set out its MiFID stall, and has identified reference data and client classification as two of the eight MiFID related challenges it wants to help financial institutions address through its initiative to offer “mix and match” MiFID solutions in conjunction with a range of partners. TAP Solutions, provider of the Microsoft based TAPMaster…