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Azimuth Financial’s Azdex Offers Counterparty Benchmarking Data
Azimuth Financial has lifted the lid on its Azimuth Data Exchange (Azdex) initiative to offer financial institutions analysis of the quality of their counterparty data, based on comparisons with that of their peers. Azdex recently signed up Dresdner Bank and Standard Bank of South Africa to participate in the benchmarking project. According to Ken Price,…
Corporate Actions Systems Benchmarked by CityCompass
Think your corporate actions service is good enough? Try putting it through the paces of the CityCompass benchmarking process. Those systems and information service providers brave enough to do so and that passed the tough criteria were rewarded for their efforts with the new B.I.S.S. Gold Label accreditation. The benchmarking process, now in its second…
Distribution Spat Between FTSE, Barra Remains Unsolved
While risk data and technology firm Barra has instructed clients that it will discontinue distribution of data from index firm FTSE Group from the end of next month, FTSE says that no such decision had been communicated to them. It appears that discussions have been ongoing between the two parties, but FTSE insists that no…
Vermeg Secures SEI Investments For Corporate Actions System
Corporate actions processing firm Vermeg has secured a new client in the form of wealth services provider SEI Investments. SEI is in the process of implementing Vermeg’s Megacor system to provide the corporate actions module within its own Global Wealth Management Platform aimed at private clients. While being touted as the first U.S. deal for…
Thomson Hints At Reference Data Activities with Portia News
Thomson Financial, while owner of many valuable data properties, has not to date jumped into marketing its services in the reference data space. News from its Portia portfolio management and accounting system’s division, however, made mention of new modules and enhancements in the works that hint at increased activity in this space. Modules being planned…
S&P Becomes Preferred Data Supplier To GIS’s Fund Accounting Software
Standard & Poor’s has secured a deal as the preferred data provider for Global Investment Systems’ MFACT fund accounting and administration system aimed at the mutual fund processing market. This is an expansion of an existing deal which adds S&P’s taxable corporate bond pricing for all asset types, including mortgage-backed securities CMO’s and asset backed…
Telekurs Financial Links VDF with CSK’s X-Gen Software
Telekurs Financial has added to its list of applications software partners in a new deal with existing partner CSK Software. The latest deal provides integration between Telekurs Financial’s Valordata Feed (VDF), offering master and event data, as well as international securities pricing, and CSK’s X-Gen business automation and integration software. Says Telekurs U.K. chief Beat…
FTI Uses External Partner Volante to Attain ISO CA Standards
In a bid to move closer to standardization and greater automation of corporate actions data, Financial Technologies International is utilizing technology from financial messaging provider Volante Technologies. The technology will initially incorporate Volante’s message modelling solution into FTI’s StreetActions corporate actions service enabling it to utilize the Swift network – in particular the Swift message…
Netik Implements InterView Data Management at Investec
Netik is implementing its data warehouse service Netik InterView at Investec Asset Management in both its Cape Town and London operations. InterView is the company’s so-called Investment Hub, which provides a data-centric transaction management and investment reporting solution for use within asset management firms, private banks, hedge funds, prime brokers, fund administrators and custodians.
What do you think of the reference data services out there?
After a refreshing couple of weeks on a European break, we’re back in the full swing of things. And boy, are things swinging! As well as producing our fine publications, A-Team has embarked on a commissioned survey to understand what reference data managers really think about the information services out there, and how various firms…