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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,…
Standard & Poor’s Streamlines Sales, Data As Part of New Reference Data Strategy
Standard & Poor’s European group is streamlining its sales organization for reference and securities pricing services in a bid to provide clients with a single point of contact for many of its products. It is also working to integrate its data sets with the ultimate long-term aim of providing modular options on a common platform….
XSP Signs Up First European Hedge Fund Polygon; Licenses to BB&T
XcitekSolutionsPlus has signed up its first hedge fund client in Europe as Polygon Investment Partners licenses the XSP software system for corporate actions processing. The global hedge fund advisor will interface XSP’s service across its London and New York offices through its already-installed FundManager portfolio management system from Beauchamp Financial Technology. Says Manuel Guerrero, head…
CB.Net Enters Raft of Partnerships With Omicronn, ACE, Azdex, iMeta
CB.Net has entered partnerships with a number of software providers in the past month including Omicronn, ACE Software Solutions, Azdex and iMeta Technologies. Omicronn will be integrating CB.Net’s international payments directory service BankSearchPlus into its Trax STP Enrichment Software for use within its corporate and banking clients. ACE Software Solutions will be integrating the data…
Soliton Signs Joho Capital; Expands Telekurs Fixed Income Interface
We’re certainly hearing more and more about outsourcing utilities for managing reference data coming onto the market. Just a quick flick through this issue will show SunGard planning their new Fame-based rMDS, and Accenture set to launch their MRDS service based on Asset Control’s platform. Capco also recently outlined its MDS plans following the acquisition…