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ValueLink adds PFPC International as Client for Bond Pricing
PFPC International Dublin has signed up for ValueLink Information Services’ daily closing pricing service with validation reporting. PFPC will use ValueLink’s multiple bond feeds, which, in addition to the standard dual validation, allows clients to switch between vendors on individual assets in order to obtain the latest quotes. PFPC also benefits from ValueLink’s report service,…
Telekurs Adds FSL Historical Global Corporate Actions
Telekurs has added corporate actions data covering the European and Australasian markets, sourced from Financial Software Ltd.’s (FSL) capital gains tax solution, CGix. CGix, currently used by more than 50 U.K. financial institutions, will be delivered via the Telekurs iD platform.
LSE Information Services Revenues Rise 6%; SMF Licenses Total 1,000
Information Services provided a bright spot in the London Stock Exchange results for the six months ended September 30. Information services’ revenue rose 6% to £45.1 million, contributing 33% of total turnover. The exchange’s new SEDOL Masterfile service, which provides unique identification for securities on a global basis, has now more than 1,000 licenses sold….
Standard & Poor’s Strikes Global Deal with Soliton
Standard & Poor’s has forged a global collaboration agreement with Soliton. Under the terms of the agreement, data management systems provider Soliton will manage the acquisition and integration of Standard & Poor’s securities data and reference data for financial services industry clients. This will enable customers to automate the acquisition, integration, and management of Standard…
Survey Finds 75% of Firms Plan More Reference Data Automation
The more things change the more they stay the same. This seems to be the overriding message in the results of the second annual AIM Global Data and Risk Management Survey. As with the previous year’s findings, the 2005 survey results showed that financial institutions all over the world are undertaking considerable efforts to deepen…
UMB Bank Subscribes to Xcitek for Securities Class Actions
UMB Bank has selected Xcitek’s new Class Actions (XCA) service to address the issue of identifying, tracking and responding to securities class actions. The bank already subscribed to other Xcitek products, including Corporate Actions, Cost Basis and XSP. XCA, launched in July, is a daily updated web-based service allowing users to match current or past…
Cicada Profiler, CounterpartyLink Target KYC, Patriot, AML Clients
Cicada Cos. has added new functionality within its Reference Data Management Suite to help companies comply with the due diligence requirements of upcoming regulations including the U.K. Financial Services Authority’s ‘Know Your Customer’ framework and the U.S. Patriot Act. The company is also the first adopter of a recently upgraded version of sister company CouterpartyLink’s…
Soliton Provides 24/7 Support In Outsourced Master File Deal
Soliton Inc. has signed the first round-the-clock client for its managed reference data services offering. The implementation, now live after a three-month evaluation period and three months of training, involves a dedicated Soliton staff handling data cleansing and normalization processes for the investment management division of an as-yet unidentified fund manager in the U.S. According…
Reuters Datascope’s Ken Barnes Appointed VP, Business and Planning, at Wombat
Ken Barnes, formerly of Reuters’ DataScope reference data product group, has joined Wombat Financial Software, a low-latency data delivery provider. Reporting to Danny Moore, COO, he assumes responsibility for global marketing and communications, competitor and market analysis, sales process management and channel development and management. He will also manage several Tier 1 accounts in the…
Wang Departs Capco for Citigroup
Samuel Wang, managing principal and head of global marketing at Capco, has left the company to join Citigroup in an undisclosed role.