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Eagle Joins Charles River Partner Integration Programme
Eagle Investment Systems has become a member of Charles River Development’s (CRD’s) partner integration certification program. The certification is based largely upon the development of standardized interfaces between the Charles River Investment Management System and Eagle PACE and Eagle STAR. The interface between the platforms provides a bi-directional flow of reference and accounting data and…
Interactive Data to Acquire Xcitek Market Data Business for $25.3M
As predicted in Reference Data Review last month, Interactive Data Corporation has agreed to buy the market data division of Xcitek and the market data assets of its affiliate Xcitax for $25.3 million in cash. The acquisition does not include XcitekSolutionsPlus (XSP), the corporate actions software company affiliated with Xcitek, or Xcitek Consulting Services, both…
BNP Paribas Securities Services Live on ValueLink OTC Data
BNP Paribas Securities Services has gone live with an outsourced OTC derivatives data service from ValueLink. The service became operational in December, and since then ValueLink has been working with BNP Paribas to fine-tune reporting based on the requirements of the fund administrator’s own clients, according to the vendor’s operations director Trevor Beach. ValueLink’s outsourced…
S&P, ICAP Ally to Add Trade Data to Evaluated Prices
Standard & Poor’s has teamed with interdealer broker ICAP to offer ICAP’s pricing data on a range of instruments via MasterFeed, its consolidated securities reference data and end-of-day pricing feed service. This will enable the data vendor to provide its clients with both trade data and evaluated prices via a single feed, says JR Rieger,…
Northern Rock Signs Three-Year Deal with CounterpartyLink
The UK’s Northern Rock has entered into a three-year agreement to take legal entity data from CounterpartyLink. The deal includes additional data from CounterpartyLink’s new version, 1.4, enhanced to support clients in complying with the Third EU Money Laundering Directive and MiFID (Reference Data Review, March 2007). The data will initially be used in the…
Japan’s SPARX Group Live on GAIN, AIM Reports More POCs
Tokyo-based asset manager SPARX Group has implemented the GAIN data management platform from Austria’s AIM Software in a project lasting just 10 days. GAIN is handling Asian equities data from Bloomberg and data from the local Japanese Toyo Keizai feed, and ultimately SPARX may deploy GAIN as a centralised data hub across its operations. According…
AIM Adds EDI, Reuters DataScope Select to GAIN
AIM Software has released version 4.0 of its GAIN financial data management platform. The latest release offers a golden copy management platform with functionality for data scrubbing, control and improvement of data quality and standardization of reference data and pricing data, and adds two additional financial data feeds: EDI and Reuters DataScope Select.
ReferenceDataFactory Unveils Extendable Integration Data Model
ReferenceDataFactory has released the RDF Integration Data Model, the result of three years’ development. The new data model provides a standard business view of data across all asset types in a business centric representation. The RDF Integration Data Model is extendable, and can expose data through XML via messaging or web services or through a…
NAB Custodian Services Selects Markit Complex Derivatives Valuations…
NAB Custodian Services (NCS), a securities services provider in Australia, has appointed Markit provider of complex OTC derivatives valuations. Markit will provide NCS with an independent, post-trade calculation of the gross asset value of a portfolio of complex OTC derivative trades. Valuations will be provided on a daily basis for vanilla and exotic instruments, and…
Delta Lloyd Selects CMA For Price Verification
Delta Lloyd Asset Management, a Dutch fund manager, has selected CMA’s price verification data service, CMA DataVision. Arnold Gast, head of credit for Delta Lloyd Asset Management, says: “We selected CMA DataVision because it provides a timely, comprehensive, true market view. We also like CMA’s buy side aggregation model focus on gathering average pricing views…