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Reuters Plugs Corporate Actions into Xcitek XSP
Reuters has entered a deal to make its corporate actions data, from the DataScope Pricing & Reference Data service, available via Xcitek’s XSP. This data is now available from Reuters in the ISO 15022 format. According to Caroline O’Shaughnessy, head of third party alliances for Reuters DataScope, Reuters “has made a priority of, and is…
Telekurs Financial Launches Pricing Service for French Market
Telekurs (France) SAS has launched a new pricing service, French Fiscal Prices – in French, Impôt de Solidarité sur le Fortune (ISF) – aimed at helping banks produce an accurate valuation of their customers’ holdings prior to declaration to the tax authorities. The ISF pricing service consists of a file of data for more than…
TAP Solutions Releases TAPMaster On Demand
TAP Solutions has released the TAPMaster On Demand web service, an add-on module to its core data management platform that provides a link between its standardized data and a client’s proprietary or non-standard systems and software without the need for development staff. Queries go through the web service and provide ‘read only’ data so administrators…
Aegon Asset Management Taps Citadel Cadis for Data Platform
Aegon Asset Management UK Ltd. has implemented Citadel Associates’ Cadis Data Management Platform (DMP). The Scotland-based investment management firm will use DMP in support of its outsourced securities administration and fund accounting functions, which are handled by Citigroup’s Global Transaction Services group, as well as for its own core business activities. Cadis now supplies Aegon…
Brewin Dolphin Deploys Telekurs’ Valordata, Mondas’ Radica Caps for Corporate Actions
Brewin Dolphin Securities, a U.K.-based private client portfolio manager and stockbroker, went live last month with an integrated STP solution using Telekurs Financial’s corporate actions data delivered via the ISO 15022-based Valordata feed delivered to Mondas’ Radica Caps corporate actions processing software. With this web-based solution, Brewin Dolphin can select securities on a daily basis…
Asset Control Enlarges On Standard Chartered Project
Asset Control has released details of its implementation of the AC PriceMaster platform at Standard Bank last year. The Hong Kong- and London-based bank announced last spring that it was live at four main offices with AC PriceMaster for management of market rates in support of its risk analysis activities (Reference Data Review, May 2005)….
ValueLink and Reuters Extend Relationship
ValueLink Information Services and Reuters have extended their relationship by increasing the amount of Reuters data carried by ValueLink as well as increasing Reuters’ status to a key provider. ValueLink provides financial data collection, consolidation and cleansing, and offers tailored solutions, which can be delivered in the format the customer desires. Reuters first forged its…
Interactive Data Picks Ivaliotis to Lead Marketing Strategy
Interactive Data Corp. has named Mary Ivaliotis vice president and chief marketing officer, with responsibility for developing the overall brand and marketing strategy for Interactive Data, and its FT Interactive Data, Comstock, CMS BondEdge and eSignal businesses. Ivaliotis was most recently executive vice president of global markets at Telerate, and previously held positions at prior…
Counterparty Link Installs Cole to Head Product Management
Martin Cole has joined Counterparty Link as head of the product management team. He was previously managing director of Dun & Bradstreet, U.K. and Ireland, a role he took on in July 2003. Prior to that, he spent 16 years with Reuters, holding a variety of sales and marketing positions, including marketing director for U.K….
Xcitek Expands European Team with Digby, Fullam
Xcitek has expanded its London-based team with the addition of Paul Fullam, vice president and manager of global services, to support implementations for new European clients of its flagship XSP software solution. The corporate actions software vendor has also appointed Matt Digby as senior business analyst for XSP in Europe. His responsibilities will include business…