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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…

Mondas Names King, Ryan to Radica Caps Sales Team

Tim King and Dominic Ryan have joined Mondas as sales manager and sales executive, respectively. “Both Tim and Dominic have extensive experience in sales with organisations including the London Stock Exchange, Dow Jones, Thomson Financial and Phillips Electronics, and the high level of expertise we need for them to play a leading part in our…

Thomson Financial Jumps into Bond Evaluations; Adds Standard & Poor’s Data to Intraday Snapshot

Thomson Financial is set to add Standard & Poor’s European bond valuations data to the intraday pricing feed it launched late last year. The move – which is to be announced as early as the first week in July – adds yet another player to the bond valuations marketplace, currently dominated by Interactive Data Corp.,…

And You Thought Your Structured Data Was in a Mess….

As the world of reference data moves to a phase of relative maturity, the landscape is becoming littered with the usual ‘after-dinner circuit’ of case studies, interviews and Powerpoints gloating about how the data challenge has finally been met. Instead of the chaos we uncovered three years ago – has it been that long? –…

AIM’s Gain to Carry EDI Reference, Pricing Data

Exchange Data International (EDI) has made its reference, pricing and corporate actions data available via Aim Software’s Gain reference data management platform. Gain already integrates data from such sources as Reuters DataScope, Telekurs Valoren Data Feed (VDF) and FT Interactive Data.