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A New Age of Automation For Proxy Voting on Horizon?
The similarity of the proxy voting process to the corporate actions process has in some ways negatively impacted efforts to automate proxy voting, but a recently initiated pilot of new Swift proxy voting messages could herald in greater efficiencies to the process. This was the message from Chad Spitler, principal/associate director, corporate governance and proxy…
Panmure Gordon Tests New CA Data Feeds via Mondas System
Following a rapid 12 week implementation, institutional stockbroker Panmure Gordon & Co is live on the Radica CAPS corporate actions processing system from Mondas. The system is currently taking corporate actions data feeds from Panmure’s international custodian BNP Paribas and vendor Exchange Data International (EDI). The firm is also testing feeds from Telekurs Financial and…
B.I.S.S. CA Benchmarks Highlight Data Strengths of Vendor Systems
The findings of the 2006 B.I.S.S. Corporate Actions Benchmarking Report show that the systems of the four providers covered in detail – CheckFree, Information Mosaic, SmartStream and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) – all score well in the data handling categories. B.I.S.S. Research confirms all these vendors have invested heavily in their systems and developed new…
AIM Survey Charts 15022 Progress and Outsourcing Trend
The reference data management industry has moved into the limelight and can no longer be viewed as a niche market. So suggest the findings of AIM Software’s third Global Data and Risk Management Survey. The wide ranging research, based on responses from 1027 financial institutions in 77 countries, finds that 28 per cent of firms…
A-Team Analysis: The Devil’s in the Detail for Derivatives Data
The obsession of the industry at large with over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, in particular credit default swaps (CDSs) but also interest rate swaps and increasingly equity derivatives, is having an ever greater impact on the world of reference data. The providers of data management systems report a growing demand from among their prospects and clients to…
Reuters Offers Bear Stearns CDS Prices Alongside Composite
Reuters has teamed with Bear Stearns Pricing Direct (PricingDirect) to provide its customers with credit default swaps and interest rate swaps prices from PricingDirect, alongside its own composite. For Bear Stearns Pricing Direct, this is an opportunity to tap into a significant distribution network, especially outside the US. According to Bob Rose, senior managing director,…
ABN Amro Takes On Nick Skinner, Ex of GoldenSource…
ABN Amro has recruited Nick Skinner – formerly of GoldenSource and ADP Wilco – as head of market data, global reference data management, operations shared services.
Soliton’s Nazir Noormohamed Takes Role at Acquirer SunGard
Contrary to early reports, Nazir Noormohamed, formerly CEO of the Soliton TimeSquare business recently acquired by SunGard, is staying at the company as managing director, SunGard TimeSquare and Managed Services.
… While GoldenSource Names Peter Leichsenring Head of Central and Southern European Sales
Enterprise Data Management solutions provider GoldenSource Corporation has named Peter Leichsenring head of sales for Central and Southern Europe, focusing on Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain and Italy. Initially recruited to the company in December 2004 to build a channel sales programme, Leichsenring previously ran channel and alliance programmes at Tibco Software.
Peter O’Keefe to Execute Swift’s Securities Reference Data Strategy
Peter O’Keefe, formerly of Nomura, has been appointed manager of Swift’s Security Reference Data Group, with a brief to execute on the co-operative’s strategy for securities reference data.