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Bloomberg Should Succeed in Evals Business, TowerGroup Says
Bloomberg is likely to enter the evaluations business this year, and when it does make a proper attempt on the market, will probably have “reasonable” success. This is the view of TowerGroup analyst Matt Nelson, who presented the findings of the analyst’s recent report on the providers of evaluated pricing at the recent Technology Solutions…
Euroclear Builds ISO 20022 CA Messages for Issuer to CSD Leg
Euroclear is building a set of ISO 20022 corporate actions messages for issuer to CSD communication, as part of its move to a single platform across all its markets and the implementation of its new Common Communications Interface. The new messages will replace existing proprietary electronic communication between issuers or issuers’ agents and the CSDs…
Abbey Financial Markets Live on DTCC Corporate Actions Data
In what DTCC says is a significant boost for the international penetration of its Global Corporate Actions Validation Service (GCA VS), Abbey Financial Markets has gone live with the scrubbed corporate actions data source, taking the ISO 15022-formatted feed directly into its trading system Global One. There are now 22 users of GCA VS, including…
A-Team Analysis: EDM Progress Could be Faster Than You Think
The great and the good of the enterprise data management industry globally turned out in force for FIMA USA 2007 in New York earlier this month, to participate in a conference agenda that in one sense delivered very little that was actually new. The line-up of presentations and panel discussions explored a number of now-familiar…
SunGard Upgrades referencePoint EDM Solution
SunGard has released version 4.1 of referencePoint, its global enterprise data management solution. The new version provides performance enhancements and additional flexibility within referencePoint’s configuration and workbench tools, reporting and historical data archives.
Fortent Releases Regulatory Information Management Tool
Fortent, a provider of information and technology to the risk and compliance market, has launched Fortent Inform, a tool designed to help financial institutions streamline their management of regulatory information. As a web-based, centralized source of compliance information and analysis, Fortent Inform provides a single source for US federal and state financial regulations and related…
ISIDPlus Reaches Coverage of One Million Issues
ISIDPlus, a cross-reference securities identifier service targeted at asset managers, now covers one million issues globally. Established in 1989, ISIDPlus is a strategic alliance between Standard & Poor’s and Telekurs Financial designed to bring clarity to financial information, including securities identification, pricing and corporate action information. “ISIDPlus allows customers to view substantial information from various…
Perfect Information Re-Launches Filings Database
Perfect Information has re-launched PI Filings, its database comprising more than 7 million company filings, after having given it a feature and interface makeover. “We consulted with our clients to find out what features we could add to Perfect Filings that would improve their productivity and sit with their existing workflow processes,” says Greg Simidian,…
F&C Selects Citadel Associates’ CADIS for Data Management
F&C Asset Management has selected Citadel Associates’ CADIS as its data management platform. F&C is among a number of investment managers to take CADIS in recent months, with others including AMVESCAP, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (Reference Data Review, November 2006) and Schroders plc (Reference Data Review, February 2006).
Daiwa Securities Extends XSP Software Agreement with Xcitek
Daiwa Securities America has extended its XSP software agreement with Xcitek for corporate actions processing. The Japanese-owned broker/dealer, which implemented the application in 2004, has renewed its contract for another three years. Xcitek will also accelerate its delivery of the Swift Standards Release (SR) 2007 Upgrade for XSP to clients. Xcitek will be delivering its…