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Accenture Loses Data Outsourcing Leader Bill Cline to Acai Solutions
Bill Cline has left Accenture, where he was managing director, global capital markets industry for North America and Asia-Pacific, and had spearheaded Accenture’s managed reference data service proposition in conjunction with Asset Control. He is now global managing partner at New York City-based management consulting company Acai Solutions. Cline’s departure from Accenture follows the retirement…
JJ Gets Down to “Nitty-Gritty” of “Grimy” Data Business
Reference data projects are “huge, scary and often not perceived as adding measurable value”. To avoid being derailed by the complexity and long payback time of such projects, firms should break the problem down into manageable chunks and accept that great value can be added to the business by addressing just part of the problem,…
IT Complexity, Budget, ROI Key Challenges for EDM Projects
Confirmation that understanding of the importance of enterprise data management is growing among C-level executives comes this month in a new report commissioned by GoldenSource. According to the report, based on 17 interviews with CTOs and CIOs within financial services firms in North America and Europe, 47 per cent of respondents say their firms have…
Schroders Takes Citadel’s CADIS For Pricing and Analytics
Global asset manager Schroders plc is implementing Citadel Associates’ CADIS data management system for pricing and analytics. Schroders is the fourth investment manager to take CADIS in recent months, with others including AMVESCAP and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (Reference Data Review, November 2006). Robin Strong, Citadel’s head of sales and marketing for EMEA,…
Financial Tradeware Facilitates GlobeTax’s StatRate Via Swiftnet
Financial Tradeware and tax reclamation specialist GlobeTax have formed a partnership to provide GlobeTax’s StatRate, an automatic data feed which provides financial institutions with market by market statutory withholding tax rate data (Reference Data Review, September 2006), via Swiftnet FileAct. GlobeTax created its StatRate service based on Swiftnet FileAct to deliver daily file based tax…
MIS Offers Case Management Tool Based on Cicada Technology
Cicada’s Profiler Solutions division is deploying components of its Profiler customer due diligence/KYC software to develop a case management tool for McDonald Information Service (MIS), provider of information on the reliability of retail and institutional accounts to more than 4000 financial institutions worldwide. The tool, called MIS CM, will be provided as an ASP in…
DPC Data Supports Perfect Information’s US Business
Perfect Information and DPC Data have formed a partnership to provide enhanced support and services for Perfect Information customers in the US via DPC’s data-related outsourcing services, following a soft launch of its Perfect Search product. Perfect Information, provider of corporate data for investors tracking equity and bond information, as well as corporate updates, is…
The Dynamics of Change By Gert Raeves, vice president, business solutions at GoldenSource
Change is like the common cold – there is a lot of it about. The interesting question is not if we are in a period of change: everything is always changing, in the same way that everyone is always busy –the constancy of change is a particularly tired cliché of business life. The better question…
Bank of New York Adds Valuations for European Swaptions, FX Options and OTC Equity Options
The Bank of New York has expanded its independent valuation service for OTC derivatives to include European swaptions, foreign exchange options and OTC equity options, in addition to the interest rate swaps and credit default swaps already covered. The bank is currently undergoing a merger with Mellon Financial Corporation, which recently announced the availability of…
Northern Trust Offers to Manage Collateral for Investor Clients
Northern Trust has built on its independent valuation service for OTC derivatives to offer a suite of automated collateral management services to help investors manage credit risk. The bank believes its new service strengthens the competitive advantage it gained from being the first asset servicer to contract for collateral management outsourcing with Lombard Risk through…