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Goal Acquires Securities Class Actions Specialist Magenta One
Global Operations and Administration Limited (GOAL), a provider of tax reclamation services, has completed the acquisition of Magenta One, a securities class actions specialist. As a wholly owned subsidiary of GOAL, the business will trade under the new name of Magenta One Global Limited, operating out of GOAL’s headquarters in the City of London. David…
Financial Tradeware Appoints CIG Business Partner for North America
Financial Tradeware has partnered with New York-based Computer Intelligence Group (CIG) to bring its solutions to the North American and Caribbean regions. Under the terms of the agreement CIG, an IT consulting and services company that also recently partnered with reference data specialist AIM Software (Reference Data Review, January 2007), will market, install and support…
IntellectSpace Releases FN Knowledge Mapping
IntellectSpace has introduced IntellectSpace FN Knowledge Mapping, a solution for investment banks and private equity firms that automatically discovers, analyzes, and visually maps key relationships among companies and people. IntellectSpace FN is an engine that draws on the SEC disclosures and corporate announcements to graphically represent the underlying relationships that can reveal both risk and…
ING Investment Management Builds MS-Based Ref Data System
ING Investment Management Americas, the US investment arm of ING Group, has used Microsoft technology to implement a database to help its employees manage, access and analyse investment data from a range of data sources. Using Microsoft Windows Server System products including SQL Server 2005, .Net Framework 2.0 and ASP.Net, ING has created the Relative…
The maxim of pragmatism
The great thing about standards is – as the old adage has it – there are so many of them to choose from. And yet, there never seem to be enough. Last month we charted the industry’s ongoing frustration at the lack of a standard international business entity identifier which, in the view of some,…
DTCC Develops XML Format For Corporate Actions Data
DTCC is working to create a new XML based format for delivery of corporate actions announcement information via its Global Corporate Action Validation Service (GCA VS), scheduled for roll-out in early 2008. DTCC currently provides data in its own proprietary format and in ISO 15022. The inadequacy of the 15022 format for its purposes is…
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…
S&P Becomes EDM Council’s First Data Vendor Sponsor
Standard & Poor’s has become the first data vendor to join the EDM Council as sponsor, where it will work alongside the likes of other new vendor sponsors ADP Brokerage Services Group and Deutsche Boerse-owned Avox (Reference Data Review, December 2006), to help develop effective solutions to manage data across the enterprise. Through its involvement…
CIG Supports AIM Software in US, Targets Mid Office Needs
New York based consultancy Computer Intelligence Group (CIG) has partnered with Austria based AIM Software to market, implement and support its reference data management platform GAIN in the US, with an initial focus on large banks, brokers and mutual funds in New York and Boston. The two companies – which are also working closely with…
Reuters Appoints IDC’s Oldham to Manage Asia Pacific Pricing Service
Malcolm Oldham, previously responsible for Interactive Data’s evaluated fixed income pricing throughout the Asia Pacific region, has joined Reuters to manage its Pricing Service, launched in Asia Pacific in March 2006. Oldham is based in Melbourne, and reports to Pricing Service management in New York.