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New Cusip Now Service Delivers Free 15 Minute Updates
The Standard & Poor’s Cusip Service Bureau has unveiled Cusip Now, an issue alert service available free to all licensed Cusip customers from December. Cusip Now uses push technology to deliver new Cusip issues and reference data to market participants every 15 minutes. The service delivers Cusip data via FTP downloads to client databases and…
Siperian, CounterpartyLink Partner on Legal Entity Data Management
California based Siperian has forged an alliance with CounterpartyLink under which CounterpartyLink’s global legal entity data can be fed directly into Siperian’s counterparty master data management solution Siperian Hub. According to the partners, this alliance will support financial institutions’ efforts to comply with anti-money laundering, know your customer and Basel II regulations as well as…
AIM, Reuters Automate Reference Data for Corporates
AIM Software and Reuters are offering a reference data service for corporates. Reuters feeds its FX, swaps and interest rates information into AIM’s GAIN platform, while AIM delivers the data in a format which can be downloaded into mySAP ERP.
AXA IM Initiates Counterparty Phase of Reference Data Project
Having selected Capco as business service provider and CounterpartyLink as data provider, AXA Investment Managers has kicked off the third party client data phase of its ongoing reference data project. Analysis is under way at the firm into the approach to take in the next phase of the project, focusing on securities data. But despite…
Lloyds TSB Adopts AC Plus For Complex Products
The UK’s Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets has begun a phased implementation of Asset Control’s AC Plus centralized data management solution to assist its provision of complex products to clients. According to the vendor, AC Plus is replacing a number of spreadsheet based applications and will be used to support expanded daily trading activity, manage risk…
FT Interactive Data, CMS BondEdge Extend Collaboration
Aiming to support the increasingly sophisticated risk management requirements of buy side clients such as Schroder Investment Management, the FT Interactive Data business of Interactive Data Corporation (IDC) has extended its collaboration with IDC’s CMS BondEdge business to add new data items to its risk and analytical data service. Schroder is one of four existing…
Telekurs Financial to add New Reference Data to VDF for MiFID
Telekurs Financial is to introduce new reference data to help its clients achieve MiFID compliance. According to its head of product services Richard Newbury, a key aspect of Telekurs Financial’s plans is the reworking of its reference data model to make much more of the institution related data it holds, “in order to provide this…
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…