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Standard & Poor’s Introduces Enhanced Version of RatingsDirect
Standard & Poor’s has introduced an enhanced version of RatingsDirect, its real-time online credit ratings and research solution aimed at credit/research analysts, credit risk managers and portfolio managers. Highlights include expanded credit research and ratings coverage, redesigned ratings pages, a new Quick view menu, and enhancements to the e-mail alert system. RatingsDirect enables investment professionals…
Citadel Adds EDI’s Corporate Actions Feed to Cadis Platform …
Citadel Associates has developed an interface to Exchange Data International’s Worldwide Corporate Actions (WCA) data feed that will allow its Cadis Data Management Platform to access corporate actions announce-ments from the London-based supplier.
… As EDI Teams with Financial Information Inc.
Exchange Data International has teamed up with New Jersey-based Financial Information Inc. to offer Financial International Data Services, which integrates EDI’s international corporate actions data into Financial Information’s FII Online web-based query system, offering global coverage of corporate actions and transfer services.
Aozora Adds Counterparty Data To GoldenSource Implementation
Aozora Bank of Japan has added GoldenSource’s Counterparty Solution to the broad data management platform it is currently implementing across all of its operations. The Japanese bank last year selected GoldenSource’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Suite to provide the technology infrastructure for a centralized and cleansed repository for all types of reference data, including customer,…
IDC’s Strategic Deal with Markit Provides Cooperative Framework
This month’s data redistribution deal between Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data and Markit Group belies a more strategic alliance, than at first it appears. The agreement gives FT Interactive Data clients access to the models Markit uses for its bond valuations as well as use of Markit’s own credit default swap, credit index and…
Convexity Adopts Asset Control’s AC Plus as Starter Pack
Newly launched hedge fund Convexity Capital Management’s selection of Asset Control’s AC Plus platform is aimed at setting in place a reference data infrastructure that to underpin the fund’s expansion into new areas of business. Convexity implemented AC Plus in under two days, and is using the system as its central repository in support of…
State Street, SSISearch to Offer Standard Access to SSI Data
State Street Corp.’s State Street Global Markets trading arm has teamed up with SSISearch to offer a so-called open industry standard for standard settlement instructions and other settlement information. The move brings State Street and SSISearch into the currently underserved area of standard settlement instructions, which has seen several industry initiatives take flight, but none…
Baer, Winterflood Pick ValueLink For Price Data Management
Julius Baer Investment Ltd. (JBIL), an investment management arm of the Swiss bank specializing in fixed-income securities, has selected ValueLink Information Services to provide daily pricing collection for its closing portfolio valuations. Meanwhile, Winterflood Securities has said it will use ValueLink’s Shares in Issue service, which provides data validation of third-party feeds. At JBIL, ValueLink…
Xcitek Installs Piraino as SVP Sales Operations
Frank Piraino has joined Xcitek as senior vice president with responsibility for managing client relationships and sales operations for the company’s flagship corporate actions software solution in New York. He was previously vice president of global sales operations and marketing for GoldenSource Corp.
FISD Names TAP Solutions’ Alvarez to Board
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software and Information Industry Association has named Marc Alvarez, EVP products and marketing at TAP Solutions, to its board as chairman of its Securities Model Working Group.