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A-Team Expands with Addition to Team of Harris, George
A-Team Group, publisher of Reference Data Review and other titles, has expanded its team to support its ongoing growth. Thea George, a well known and highly respected journalist, joins us from STP Magazine where she was editor for a number of years, to become editor, A-Team Publications. She will be taking over as editor for…
Market MiFFED by FSA Benchmarking Proposal
If there’s been a sub-theme to recent activity in the reference data marketplace, it’s sure been bond evaluations. Readers of Reference Data Review have witnessed the flurry of product offerings, positioning and poachings among the major suppliers, with Reuters, Bloomberg, Standard & Poor’s and Thomson Financial all attempting to enter a marketplace long dominated by…
Fundtech Hitches Up to Swift’s New Closed User Group Category
Fundtech has shown its support for Swift’s new Corporate Access programme with its participation in Swift’s Member Administered Closed User Group (MA-CUG) model. The programme, aimed at encouraging corporates onto the Swift network, offers standard access to third-party services, in turn offering third-party providers access to Swift’s network of bank and corporate customers.
Swift to Accept Isda’s FpML Messages on Swiftnet
Swift and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda) are to create a Swift Closed User Group for transporting Isda’s Financial Products Markup Language (FpML) messages over Swiftnet by year-end.
ADP Wilco Adds ISO 20022-Based Swiftnet Funds Messages
ADP Wilco has introduced ISO 20022 Swiftnet Funds messaging through its Swift Service Bureau. The company developed the capability to meet the requirements of Luxembourg-based Volker Wombacher. ADP plans to expand the range of Swiftnet services available through its service bureau.
CheckFree eVent Adds FT Interactive Data’s ISO 15022 Corporate Actions
CheckFree Corp. has developed an ISO 15022-compliant interface to FT Interactive Data’s corporate actions data feed for its eVent corporate actions processing platform. As a result, eVent clients will be able to receive, process and share corporate actions data without the need to convert to and from proprietary formats.
Principia Adds S&P Structured Finance Evalutions
Principia has added Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations structured finance evaluated pricing service to its Principia Structured Finance Platform. The addition is aimed at enhancing the platform’s cross-asset monitoring, end-of-day processing and risk management capabilities.
Can Corporate Actions Automate Without Wave of Regulatory Stick?
Despite a myriad of available software solutions aimed at automating corporate actions processing, industry participants can relish the prospect of unreliable data and manually intensive processing for some time to come. That’s among the findings of new research from TowerGroup that suggests that corporate actions processing remains one of the major roadblocks standing in the…
Reuters Taps Nelson for DataScope Select in Asia
Reuters has relocated Barnaby Nelson to Hong Kong, from London, to head up its DataSelect initiative in Asia. Nelson, previously part of the DataScope team in London, will lead a team of five salespeople and one product specialist. His former role in Europe is being covered by Oliver Smith, who recently joined Reuters from Bloomberg,…
Harcourt Joins Standard & Poor’s from FT Interactive Data
Steven Harcourt has joined Standard & Poor’s European Structured Finance team, as senior structured finance evaluator, after spending seven years at FT Interactive Data and four years at Merrill Lynch. Harcourt will continue to develop the team’s new European ABS/MBS Evaluation model, reporting to Peter Jones, director of securities evaluations at Standard & Poor’s in…