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Deutsche Bank Taps Cicada, DSL for Global Know Your Client Compliance Project
As part of its global reference data management initiative, Deutsche Bank has contracted with Cicada Cos. to provide advisory and cleansing services to ensure compliance with Know Your Client (KYC) regulatory requirements. The German bank has adopted a risk-based approach to KYC compliance, which it believes has yielded many operational efficiencies and benefits as a…
Reuters’ Enterprise Data Unit Is Bright Spot in Interim Results
Reuters’ Enterprise Information Products group – home to its DataScope valuations data suite – posted a 30% rise in revenue for the first half of 2004, proving the brightest spot within the company’s set of interim results, which showed a drop in overall revenues for the second quarter.
Mark-it Partners Teams with eClerx For Risk Benchmarking
Mark-it Partners has formed an alliance with eClerx, a Mumbai, India-based provider of data and risk analysis, to offer joint clients risk benchmarking services using Mark-it credit and RED data. Under the deal, eClerx will have access to Mark-it Partners’ data on a daily basis, allowing it to benchmark a firm’s position risk to Mark-it’s…
National Bank Financial Opts for Accurate Software NXG
National Bank Financial, the investment banking subsidiary of National Bank of Canada, and its NBCN Clearing unit have selected Accurate Software’s NXG operational risk management suite to extend automation of their back-office systems. National Bank Financial was seeking a single platform for handling its trade reconciliations process and reduce operational risk.
TD Securities Prime Brokerage Selects Eagle Platform
TD Securities’ Prime Brokerage group has selected Eagle Investment Systems Corp.’s Pace data hub and portfolio management system as part of an overhaul of its systems to support hedge fund and institutional asset management customers. Aside from Pace, TD Securities will also implement Eagle’s Star investment accounting system and its Performance investment performance measurement suite….
J.P. Morgan Investor Services Unveils Valuations for OTC Derivatives
J.P. Morgan Investor Services has launched a valuation service for over-the-counter derivatives. The new service will allow the custodian’s clients to value instruments ranging from vanilla interest-rate swaps to the most exotic structured derivatives. The service is based on Reech FastVal, a derivatives valuations and risk management system from SunGard Reech.
GSTPA Technology Assets to Be Auctioned Off Next Month
The technology assets of the failed GSTPA post-trade processing consortium are to be auctioned by liquidators in Switzerland on September 10. The auction will be handled by Buergi & Naegeli, and interested parties are invited to contact the firm’s Zurich offices. Developers of centralized trade processing utilities, including Financial Models Co., Omgeo and SunGard have…
ValueLink to Offer EuroMTS Delayed Price Data
ValueLink Information Services is to offer delayed price information from the EuroMTS trading platform for European benchmark government bonds. The company has become the first to secure a delayed data license for from EuroMTS.
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….