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NFS Unveils Data Interface for Pricing Services
Nordic Financial Systems (NFS), a provider of technical and business integration services to the treasury industry, has launched Market Information Interface, which allows users of its Finance KIT to receive end-of-day pricing data from vendors including Reuters and Bloomberg for portfolio valuation and risk measurement purposes. According to NFS, MII – developed in conjunction with…
Pool-Side Reading for Reference Data Ravers
Your publisher and editor are honoured this issue to be carrying contributions from two of the leading lights of the reference data community. In what will become a regular feature, Tony Kirby, founder of the Reference Data User Group (RDUG) brings us completely up to date with the workings of the various standards working groups….
U.K. Asset Manager Insight Set to Go Live with Citadel’s Data Management Platform
U.K. asset management firm Insight Investment is about to go live with a reference data management infrastructure from Citadel Associates. The implementation will make Citadel’s Cadis the data management infrastructure underpinning Insight’s growing derivatives operations. Insight – formed through a merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and the subsequent acquisition of Rothschild Asset Management…
FTI Taps IntegraSP for StreetDashboard
Financial Technologies International has tapped IntegraSP’s AltioLive to offer StreetDashboard, a data management tool aimed at providing a holistic view of enterprise data for middle- and back-office data. The system allows firms to monitor key indicators like currency, country and counterparty exposure to minimize risk, by offering a window into FTI’s StreetEnterprise applications.
FISD to Launch XML Toolkit for Messaging Standards
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) plans to release an XML toolkit – dubbed XML transmission Compaction (XTC) – to aid developers using its FISDMessage protocol and support the standardization of reference data. FISDMessage, along with MDDLService, will be the transport layer for FISD’s Market Data Definition…
EDI Expands Middle Eastern Coverage of WCA, Dividend Feeds
Exchange Data International (EDI) has expanded the Middle Eastern coverage of its Worldwide Corporate Actions (WCA) and Worldwide Dividends feeds. The new service includes additional Arabic language translation capabilities as well as data from three additional Middle East stock exchanges and local data providers. Exchange information from the Algerian, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates (UAE)…
ADP Brokerage Services Teams with Xcitek for Corporate Actions
ADP’s Brokerage Services Group (BSG) has launched an automated corporate actions processing system based on XcitekSolutionsPlus’s XSP platform. The new system is part of BPS’s back-office processing offering, and features a data-scrubbing engine for exception-handling. The engine compares announcement data from multiple sources and identifies exceptions, publishing them to BPS and offering managers an overall…
Nicholas-Applegate Opts for XSP Platform
Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management has licensed XcitekSolutionsPlus’s XSP platform for corporate actions processing, its corporate actions data, its Swift messaging functionality and the Electronic Tracking Response and Notifications system for notification and response capture. “After evaluating the software vendors in the marketplace,” Christopher P. Siriani, director of operations at Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management, “we found that XcitekSolutionsPlus…
Cicada Upgrades Rules Management on Composer
Cicada has upgraded the validation rules management capabilities of its reference data management platform, adding a graphical user interface allowing users to create, modify, delete or add business rules to data sources, both internal and external. The upgrade also adds a rights system for security, permissioning and modifying existing business rules. Finally, a new rules…
In Search of the King of Holy Grails: ROI
Return on investment is a recurring theme in reference data management. And the reason seems to be that no one can figure out how to measure it. Recent issues of Reference Data Review have been littered with references – excuse the pun – to the importance of managing expectations with respect to ROI on enterprise-wide…