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FISD Seeks Feedback for MDDL with New Working Group
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) is seeking feedback on the data model behind the Market Data Definition Language (MDDL) as it is “moving into implementations by many of our members,” says the FISD. It has set up a Securities Model Working Group under its Securities Processing Automation efforts to address MDDL and related data…
Telekurs’ Pricing Deal with Exchange Systems Technology
Telekurs (U.K.) is making its delayed prices on equities, bonds and deriva-tives available via Exchange Systems Technology, an IT service provider for clearing and settlement operations. The deal will provide EST’s clients with intra-day valuations in their back office environment, including for valuing collateral holdings for risk management. The data will be made available to…
IDC’s Revenues Grow, Supported by New Evaluated, Descriptive Services
Interactive Data Corp. (IDC) saw annual revenues grow 9.5% to $484.6 million for 2004, with net income rising 11.2% to $80.3 million. For the fourth quarter, revenue grew 4% to $125.2 million, while net income grew 15.7% to $21.1 million. Growth was attributed in part to “continued strength … in FT Interactive Data’s North American…
Volante Upgrades Swift Format Plug-in for 2005 MT Update
Data messaging company Volante has made available its Swift SRG 2005 as part of its Swift Format Plug-in for customers. The Standards Release Guide (SRG) is an annual update by Swift of its Message Type (MT) categories. Says Krishna Sudarshan, chief technology officer of Volante, “Our customers and partners save several months of effort, which…
Mondrian Picks Macgregor for Post Trade Communications
Mondrian Investment Partners has picked a post trade service from Macgregor to provide connectivity to Swift and Omgeo’s CTM, as well as for communica-tions of trade notifications, corporate actions and holding reconciliation messages. The Macgregor XIP Post Trade (MPT) solution, which uses ISO 15022 for data definitions, will be integrated with the London investment firm’s…
U.S. Bancorp Fund Services Picks Eagle’s Pace, Ref Data Manager
Eagle Investment Systems has secured U.S. Bancorp Fund Services (USBFS) as a client for its Eagle Pace and Portal services, as well as Eagle Reference Manager to underpin the solutions with securities data validation and exception workflow. These products will be used at USBFS, which provides its mutual fund clients with a range of administration…
CSFB Latest Firm to Use DTCC’s Corporate Actions Service
Credit Suisse First Boston has become the sixth company to sign up for the Global Corporate Actions Validation Service from the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Joseph Porcello, director of asset servicing for CSFB in the U.S., says, “By signing on to GCA Validation, we’re looking to eliminate the time-consuming, manual process of reconciling…
Bear Stearns to Implement GemStone For Risk Data Latency
Bear Stearns plans to implement GemFire Enterprise from data infrastructure company GemStone to manage in-memory data across its enterprise applications, initially focused on Global Clearing and Settlement Risk Analytics as well as Program Trading. Bear Stearns realised its daily batch-oriented risk reporting was coming under strain as trading volumes increased and regulatory requirements became more…
CCMA Evaluates Lack of Timely Access to ISINs in Canada
The issue of timely access to ISIN securities identifiers in Canada is now being evaluated by the Canadian Capital Markets Association’s (CCMA) Institutional Program Steering Committee. The CCMA has been identifying problems holding up straight through processing and has highlighted asset and counterparty identification as presenting the biggest issues. ISINs are currently issued in Canada…
AIM Teams Up with Xen for Asian Data Management Solution
Reference data management firm AIM Software has teamed up with Xen Business Solutions to provide an integrated solution between Xen’s treasury and portfolio management system and AIM’s Gain DataDesktop. The aim, say the companies, is to manage the “full lifecycle of data capture, cleansing, consolidation, enrichment and storage of reference, price and corporate actions data…