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FT Interactive Data Adds Markit’s Swaps, CMS BondEdge’s Analytics
The strategic relationship between Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data unit and credit data specialist Markit has borne its first fruits. As expected (Reference Data Review, January 2006), FT Interactive Data has released a valuations service for credit default swaps that draws on Markit’s access to around 50 CDS dealers in the marketplace. The launch…
Markit Launches Synthetic CMBS Index with CDS IndexCo
CDS IndexCo consortium and Markit Group have launched CMBX, a synthetic index of U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) with an initial group of 14 market-making banks. Markit will serve as the central source of information about CMBX, and will utilize cashflows from Trepp. As with ABX, a home equity loan-linked index based on various asset-backed…
Olayan Group to Implement TAPMaster as Core Data Platform
The Olayan Group, a Saudi multinational, has decided to implement TAP Solution’s TAPMaster platform as its core reference data management system for its asset management operation. The deal is the first for TAP for some time, following its big win at Morgan Stanley (Reference Data Review, January 2005). At Olayan, TAPMaster will become the company’s…
AIM Software, FT Interactive Data Hook Up via Gain Platform
AIM Software and FT Interactive Data have agreed to collaborate in conducting an extended mapping of FT Interactive Data’s information services via AIM’s Gain reference data management platform. The new relationship builds on several years of cooperation maintaining access to the FT Interactive Data services via Gain. Under the arrangement, FT Interactive Data will offer…
HighMark Capital Selects Cadis To Support New OMS Platform
San Francisco-based HighMark Capital Management has implemented Citadel’s Cadis Data Management Platform (DMP) to support its new order management system (OMS) implementation. Citadel’s selection by HighMark Capital, which serves as investment advisor for HighMark Funds, is the second buy-side win announcement for the data management software firm this year. Scotland-based investment management firm Aegon Asset…
BBH Infomediary Adds Data Manager With Access to ID Code
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) has released Data Manager, a web-based module for Infomediary, its integrated communications outsourcing solution, which allows global asset managers to outsource their straight-through-processing (STP) and messaging infrastructure. The new module gives Infomediary clients enhanced functionality to directly customize, view and control their time-sensitive data in real time through a…
EDM Council’s Atkin Seeks To Elevate Industry Discussions
Freshly installed as managing director of the Enterprise Data Management Council, former FISD chief Mike Atkin says he’s embarked on a programme to raise the level of discussion of enterprise data issues within the industry, kicking off with council meetings in New York and, this month, London. Atkin reckons the industry is at the stage…
Ness Technologies Promotes FDE Platform At New York’s FIMA Data Management Event
Ness Technologies took the opportunity of this month’s Financial Information Management (FIMA) conference to promote its Financial Data Enterprise (FDE) reference data management platform. The platform was developed by Ness Innovative Business Services (Ness IBS), previously known as Innova Solutions, a provider of integration services for investment managers, broker/dealers and third-party administrators. FDE provides a…
GoldenSource Scores Another Client Win With Securities, Positions Deal at OpHedge
Reference data platform provider GoldenSource Corp. has picked up another client, following a string of implementations and new contracts over the past several months. The new addition is fund operations and administration service provider OpHedge Investment Services, which has licensed the GoldenSource Securities & Products and GoldenSource Positions modules. OpHedge hopes the GoldenSource platform will…
Richards Steps Down as Enterprise Data Leader at SunGard
Dale Richards, former president of Fame Information Services and leader of the global enterprise data initiative at SunGard, is to leave the company, following the integration of Fame and the launch of the enterprise initiative. He describes his departure as amicable and planned.