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Telekurs Unveils New Corporate Actions Delivery Platform
Telekurs used the Swift SIBOS event in Singapore last month to debut its new ISO 15022-format MT564 corporate actions delivery platform. The new platform, developed in conjunction with Swift, will carry the same range of structure, coded basic data and corporate actions already available via the Telekurs Valordata Feed (VDF). Pilot operations using the new…
Princeton Financial Allies With DSTi for Data Integration
Portfolio management system vendor Princeton Financial has signed a strategic alliance with DST International that will partner Princeton’s PAM system with DSTi’s HiDataWarehouse offering. HDW is a hub that collects market and accounting information as an accounting repository and feeds commingled data to downstream applications.
Royal Bank of Canada Selects Vitria for Workflow Management
Royal Bank of Canada will use Vitria’s BusinessWare business process management suite as its global standard for straight-through-processing (STP) messaging. The bank’s RBC Investments wealth management unit will use BusinessWare to enable end-to-end transaction processing for broker/dealers, asset managers and custodians. Phase I of the project involves linking Royalblue’s Fidessa order management front-end to the…
Fame Teams Up with ClariFi to Enhance Back-Testing Capability
Fame Information Services has forged a marketing alliance with ClariFi, developer of the ModelStation back-testing platform. Under the arrangement, Fame will market ModelStation alongside its own reference and historical data solutions. ModelStation allows investment managers and researchers to perform ‘what-if’ scenario tests on returns and evaluate portfolios at each rebalancing to determine risk.
Asset Control Develops Entry-Level Service for Data Management of Single Feed Set-Ups
Asset Control has released AC SmartFeed, an entry-level feed-handler aimed at providing financial institutions with a quick and low-cost way of implementing a single-feed solution. The system performs all data enrichment, storage and distribution functions, allowing the user firm to link its chosen feed to risk, trading room, asset management and STP/security master applications. AC…
It’s Been an Eventful Month
It most certainly has. Busy, yes. But chock full of industry events, indeed more than we can realistically keep up with. The Mother Of All Events, though, has to be Sibos, and this year’s was a great success. We used Sibos’s handy Singapore location this year to make a trip east and make the most…
Threadneedle Asset Management Deploys DataNet Based on Eagle Investment Systems’ Product Suite
U.K. investment manager Threadneedle Asset Management is implementing a one-stop data hub for corporately shared data, under its Investment Information Services (IIS) business unit. The system – to be called DataNet – will use a range of Eagle Investment Systems Corp.’s reference data and portfolio management solutions. The DataNet project is aimed at establishing a…
Swift Opens Network to Vendors for Corporate Actions Data
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift) is opening up access to its network to third-party providers of corporate actions data. While Swift already carries corporate actions messages, the move represents the first time commercial data suppliers can distribute their corporate actions services via the network. Bowing to pressure from its financial services clients,…
Kx Systems Adds Two in New York
Kx Systems has named Gavan Corr business development manager and Joanne O’Kane business development executive, both based at is New York office. Corr will manage client relationships as account team leader. O’Kane will provide technical and pre-sales report. Both report to Michael O’Neill, director of Kx sales at First Derivatives, Kx’s strategic partner for financial…
Misys Names Executive To Bolster Basel II Capabilities
Misys Risk Management Systems has named Savita Verma to lead its product management, financial engineering and research operations. Verma was previously vice president of Scotiabank. The company has also appointed David Welton Basel II specialist, reporting to Verma. Meanwhile, chief operating officer Michel Van Leeuwen has added Frank Weyns to his team. Weyns was previously…