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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…
Deutsche Bank Evaluating Data Management Platforms for Risk Processes, Decision Q1, 2005
Deutsche Bank is currently evaluating a number of reference data management solutions to source, cleanse, manage and distribute data for use primarily within its risk management functions. The vendors have responded to a Request for Information (RFI) and a decision is expected to be made in the first quarter of 2005. Deutsche Bank did not…
Telekurs Hires Gräsner For Germany Sales & Marketing
Telekurs Financial has hired Frank Gräsner as head of sales and marketing for its Germany-based operation. Gräsner previously worked at firms including DWZ/Deutsche Borse, Dresdner Bank and GIS.
Volante Names Payne to Lead New England Sales
Volante Technologies has hired Doug A. Payne to lead the expansion of its New England sales. Prior to joining Volante, Payne was vice president, investment manager solutions, for State Street Corp., and has held positions at NewsEdge and Thomson Oasys.
DSTi Boosts Asian Sales Team
DST International (DSTi) has made additions to its Asian sales team. Ian Baldwyn joins DSTi as general manager for South Asia, based in Singapore. Baldwyn was previously at Bloomberg and before that at Odyssey Asset Management Systems. Additionally, Fran Thompson has been named business development manager for Asia. Thompson joins DSTi from Thomson Asia, where…
SIAC Tests Volante Metadata Repository for Descriptive Data
The Securities Industry Automation Corp. (SIAC)’s Avner Gelb last month demonstrated tests of Volante Technology Inc.’s new Volante Metadata Repository (VMR) to manage and normalize disparate message types. Speaking at the High Performance on Wall Street conference in New York last month, Gelb, senior technical director at SIAC, said tests had enabled SIAC to shield…
Capco Sets Four-Pronged Strategy For Reference Data Offerings
Capco has spent the months since its acquisition late last year of Iverson Financial Services developing a services-based business offering that uses key elements of the former Iverson to complement existing and new Capco capabilities (Reference Data Review, February 2004). The company is positioning itself as a full-service reference data management provider, which it hopes…
Finetik Leverages Asian Information Knowledge with ADS Data Product
Asia-based financial information specialists Finetik is leveraging its relationships and reputation within the region to provide a new alternative’ in content and data management in Asian data. Its new Asian Data Service (ADS) effectively pools data from vendors and exchanges to provide in-depth and as reported data for equities, funds, fixed income, derivatives, indices, economic…