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Standard & Poor’s ‘Pushes’ Cusips to Clients
A new service from Standard & Poor’s will use push technology to deliver Cusip identifiers for competitive and negotiated municipal bond deals to fixed income and equity market participants every 15 minutes. With the New Issues On the Web (S&P Now) service, says Jim Taylor, managing director at S&P, “we are fundamentally changing the delivery…
Brewin Dophin Takes Telekurs’ ISO 15022 Corporate Actions Data
UK stockbroker Brewin Dolphin has signed up to take corporate actions data from Telekurs Financial. The data will be delivered on a daily basis in the ISO 15022 format.
Asset Control Secures Standard Chartered, Standard Bank for PriceMaster
Asset Control has secured two new clients for its AC PriceMaster for market risk data. The service was rolled out at Standard Chartered in six months. It is used to generate risk factors and curves, as well as standardizing and consolidating market data, sourced from multiple vendors and internal sources to support risk management functions,…
Cicada Packages KYC Solution…
Cicada is packaging its data management software and data cleansing team to offer a purpose-built Know Your Customer (KYC) solution. The framework will provide configurable, rules-based workflow schema to help financial institutions manage their client data review process, as well as keep an audit trail and source attribution details. The solution can manage both internal…
Netik Upgrades InterView Information Portal
Netik has upgraded its InterView Information Portal with the release of the Performance Explorer. The new module enables uses to ‘slice and dice’ performance information via a browser for higher levels of analysis.
…While Subsidiary CounterpartyLink Signs Up Capco As Early Distributor
Cicada’s new CounterpartyLink subsidiary (Reference Data Review, February 2005) is beginning to establish itself among other service providers, signing up Capco Reference Data Services as a distributor for the issuer, client, counterparty and hierarchy data service. As well as becoming a distributor, CRDS, which offers outsourced business process and technology services, intends to incorporate the…
Fininfo Distribution Deal Extends ICB Into Europe
French information provider Fininfo is distributing the Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB) database via its Finalim back office datafeed and FinWin front-office data terminal products. The deal will expand the reach of the ICB classification system, launched in January of this year by Dow Jones Indexes and FTSE Group, into Fininfo’s European client base.
Banque de Luxembourg Automates CAs with Vermeg
Vermeg has signed up a third client in Luxembourg for its Megacor corporate actions service. Banque de Luxembourg chose Megacor to fully automate its corporate actions processing to enable STP, after reviewing five other providers. The live data is scheduled for completion in September.
Progress with MiFID as First Working Group Held
The MiFID – Markets in Financial Instruments Directive – Joint Working Group efforts (Reference Data Review, April 2005) were kicked off earlier this month with the first meeting being held in London, and tasks being assigned to participants. The forward-looking objectives of the group, according to the group’s chairman Chris Pickles, are four-fold. They are,…
Client Deal Triggers Reuters Partnership with GoldenSource
Triggered by a client project at a major U.S. investment bank, Reuters has entered into partnership with GoldenSource to make its DataScope reference and historical data services available via GoldenSource’s enterprise data management platform. The initial implementation will offer access to Reuters’ equities, fixed income, static and price data as well as RIC code identifiers….