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Selling in the ‘new normal’ By Bob Etherington. Managing Director, SpokenWord Ltd
Whenever you talk to those who sell products and services in the financial sector, the current strategy can often be summed up as ‘waiting for the good times to come back…one day’. The golden days of booming markets, global expansion and Greenspan’s famous ‘irrational exuberance’. All the things that were going to go on forever…
A-Team Survey Revealing Approaches To Data Management Made Freely Available
A-Team’s survey, commissioned by Reuters, which explored the approaches to reference data management of 100 reference data managers, has now been made available free of charge. We’d like to extend a big thanks to all the managers who spared their time to take part. To get your copy and understand how your peers handle the…
Accenture Set to Roll Out Managed Reference Data Platform
Accenture is preparing to begin live demonstrations of its Managed Reference Data Service, developed using Asset Control’s data management platform, which will provide outsourced reference data management services, next month. The unveiling of the system, elements of which were on show at last month’s Sibos event in Atlanta, follows hot on the heels of a…
Telekurs (U.K.) Reorganizes; Streamlines Product Line
Telekurs Financial’s U.K. operation is planning to rationalize its product line to 10 products in 2005. The company also unveiled its new organizational structure for next year and is gearing up to open a new sales office in Edinburgh in December. The rationalized product line will fall into reference data, corporate actions and pricing data…
Deutsche Börse Plans Propris Reference Data Product Launch
Deutsche Börse is gearing up to launch a new reference data product from its recently formed Back Office Services division. The new Propris – Process Proven Information Services – range of data services will provide reference data for financial events and new issues in the German, Luxembourg and the Eurobond market. On target for a…
SunGard Joins Outsourcing Trend; Establishes Advisory Board
Joining the growing number of large-size vendors launching outsourced data management solutions, SunGard Data Management Solutions’ last month revealed plans of its referencePoint Managed Data Service (rMDS), which is scheduled to begin operations in the first quarter of 2005. Based on the ReferencePoint platform that SunGard acquired through its purchase of Fame Information Services, rMDS…
FT Interactive Data Sees Strong 3Q Growth In North America
Interactive Data Corp. – the parent of FT Interactive Data – saw third quarter revenues grow 10.4% over the same period last year to $122.9 million, with net income of $21.8 million, compared with $18 million in the third quarter of last year. Organic growth – excluding acquisitions such as FutureSource and the effects of…
Vermeg Secures Luxembourg’s Fideuram for Corporate Actions
Vermeg revealed its Megacor corporate actions solution is being used at Luxembourg-based Fideuram Bank. The service is being used to support Fideuram Bank’s new function as a global sub-custodian for another depository bank, an activity it began in early 2004. It uses Megacor to capture and produce ISO 15022-formatted corporate actions messages. This is the…
SunGard’s Invest One Sources Fair Value Data From FT Interactive Data
FT Interactive Data has secured another client for its Fair Value Information Service in the form of SunGard Investment Management Systems. The Fair Value Information Service will be integrated into SunGard’s Invest One accounting and reporting software to support the fair valuation requirements of SunGard’s mutual fund customers.
Tokyo Stock Exchange Joins Others Delivering CA Data via Swiftnet
The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) is joining the London Stock Exchange and Johannesburg Stock Exchange in making its corporate actions data available via Swiftnet. Its Tokyo Market Information (TMI) service was launched in ISO 15022 format in 2001 and is used as a primary source of Japanese corporate actions data.