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Telekurs (USA) Bolsters Fixed Income Pricing Data with Bear Stearns PricingDirect
Telekurs Financial has extended it relationship with Bear Stearns PricingDirect to bolster its end-of-day securities pricing data within the U.S. and Canadian markets. Telekurs has previous supplied PricingDirect’s fixed income pricing data to customers in Europe and Asia. Now, following the release of its exclusive distribution deal with Standard & Poor’s, Telekurs (USA) is selling…
Information Mosaic’s Cama Gains Corporate Actions SwiftReady Label
Information Mosaic’s Cama application has been awarded the Corporate Actions SwiftReady label by Swift. Cama is the vendor’s end-to-end ISO 15022-compliant corporate actions automation solution. To achieve the SwiftReady label, the product must prove its ability to handle the correct business flows for the ISO 15022 Corporate Action messages and to adhere to Global Market…
DST International Integrates Data Hub With HiRisk Application
As part of its aim to integrate its series of applications with its HiDataWarehouse data hub, DST International has released a new version that integrates with its risk management solution HiRisk (based on its acquisition of Askari). This latest addition means that HiDataWarehouse can act as the data hub for the entire DSTi middle and…
Mark-it Partners Rebrands Acquired Businesses Under ‘Markit’ Banner
Mark-it Partners, provider of a daily pricing service for global credit derivatives, cash credit instruments, and syndicated loans, has rebranded to become Markit. The rebranding will be adopted by all products and follows the integration of several acquisitions over the course of the year. LoanX becomes Markit Loans; Totem becomes Markit Valuations; DaDD becomes Markit…
Vitria Upgrades BusinessWare Platform
California-based Vitria has upgraded its Vitria:BusinessWare 4.3 data management platform. The company has added new facilities in XML processing, trading partner integration, web services and business process management. The upgrade also features new modeling tools for handling exceptions and facilitating straight through processing.
… While Asset Control Adds CB.Net SSIs; S&P Ratings
Asset Control has added new content sets in deals with CB.Net and Standard & Poors. It follows Omicronn and ACE (Reference Data Review, November 2004) in integrating CB.Net’s BankSearchPlus international payments directory into its AC Plus data management system. Ken Payne, director of sales and marketing at Asset Control, says, “Our customers have expressed strong…
Citadel Investment Group Implements Asset Control’s AC Plus…
Asset Control’s data management solution AC Plus has been implemented at Citadel Investment Group. The Chicago-based alternative investments firm considered a range of vendors including Cicada, Factset, Mercator, SunGard Data Management Systems, and Soliton. The deployment includes significant new enhancements co-developed by the two firms. These include an extension and streamlining of the data model…
DTCC Aims to Automate Corporate Actions Liability Notifications
The U.S. Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched a pilot programme with 20 broker/dealers and custodian banks for a new web-based system that automates the creation, delivery and tracking of corporate actions liability notices. The snappily titled Smart/Track for Corporate Actions Liability Notification Service will be in a pilot phase until the end…
SunGard Upgrades Data Management Software
SunGard Data Management Solutions last month upgraded its data management software related to the distribution platform and data analysis toolkit. SunGard’s Web Services distribution platform accessPoint 1.5, which provides enterprise access to Fame and other relational data within referencePoint, has been enhanced to allow customers to output data to an extended set of formats. These…
To Centralize or Not to Centralize
It’s always better to end with a bang than a whimper. So we were happy this month’s FIMA event in London gave the reference data community real pause for thought. Many industry events don’t deliver; this one did. Central to the three days of industry debate was the subject of, erm, centralization. In other words,…