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Fame Targets Asset Management with Digital Partnership
As part of Fame Information Services’ drive in the asset management client space, the firm has teamed up with U.K. company Digital Innovation Systems, which specialises in enterprise data repository designs. Both companies will market the Fame ReferencePoint for Asset Management, which is aimed at retail, institutional, and private client asset managers. According to Fame,…
SmartStream Takes Two for Northern Europe Sales
SmartStream Technologies has expanded its Northern European pre-sales team with the appointment of two new business consultants. Adam Phillips and Max Illis will both report to Pasquale Gizzi, head of pre-sales for Northern Europe, and will focus on business development for SmartStream’s Transaction Lifecycle Management solution across Northern Europe. Phillips has over 15 years experience…
Schroders Plans Global Reference Platform Using Eagle’s Product Suite
Schroders has deployed the Reference Manager software from Eagle Investment Systems across its London, New York and Tokyo operations as part of a global reference data management solution.The asset management firm is using the data management and workflow capabilities of the Eagle software to centralise all of its security reference data in one location and…
Lending Data Mapped by iMonitor
Atlanta-based iLumen Inc. has released further details of its iMonitor automation system for customer lending data gathering and analysis. Currently in evaluation at several U.S. institutions, iMonitor will provide regular, up-to-date snapshots of lending operations and uses a proprietary data-mapping engine to standardize and map data input, conduct analysis and perform benchmarking. Full-scale rollout of…
Xenomorph Claims First with .Net Data Management Suite
Xenomorph has launched TimeScape, a new data management and analysis suite based on the XML Web Services technology of the Microsoft .Net framework. TimeScape unites data management, connectivity and pricing analysis of derivative and fixed income portfolios, delivering a single view through time of all asset classes. Xenomorph claims its use of the XML Web…
Basel Concerns Boost Risk Budgets
One-third of U.S. risk management professionals surveyed by industry association PRMIA have seen their IT budgets increased and plan to install new software to support the forthcoming Basel II capital requirements. Over 2,000 U.S. PRMIA members were asked for their thoughts on various standards in the risk management profession. The results showed a pre-occupation with…
Desmond Backs PaceMetrics with Increased Stake
PaceMetrics, which earlier this year signed a global distribution deal for its software with Moneyline Telerate, has had a further investment from its principal backer IIU, which has increased its holding in the company. IIU is the Dublin-based investment vehicle of Irish financier Dermot Desmond. It already has a portfolio of strategic holdings in technology…
EDI and Goal Team for Trade Cycle Tax Solution
Reference data provider Exchange Data International has entered into a strategic alliance with Goal Group, which develops systems handling the taxation elements of the securities processing cycle. Goal’s offering, GTRS, automates the process of reclaiming cross-border withholding tax on securities investment income, such as dividends, supported by EDI’s international securities administration data. Custodian banks reclaim…
ISIPS Reflects Increased Industry Focus on Reference Data, A-Team Consulting Partners With Matrix Services.
We at Reference Data Review enjoyed our trip to this year’s ISIPS – the International Securities Industry Practitioners Symposium – event organised by STP Information Services in London. Reflecting the increased industry focus on reference data, the entire first day of the two-day event was given over to this very subject. Judging by the turnout,…
Reuters’ Restrictions on RIC Codes Relaxed in Bid for Widespread Standards Adoption
The decision by Reuters to license the use of its proprietary Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs) has drawn cautious welcomes from most involved in the reference data industry. But some question whether the contractual restrictions that Reuters hopes to enforce on the use of the codes will can be reconciled with their general adoption. The vendor,…