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Capco Gets $15 Million Funding For Reference Data Solutions
Capco, which famously split last year from its Synetix reference data joint venture with Reuters, has secured $15 million of funding. The deal has been done with existing investors, including Thomas Weisel Capital Partners, which is in for $10 million, Capco Foundation, Edgewater Private Equity Fund, GIMV, Hewlett-Packard and LJH Private Capital. Capco says the…
Tabb Group Report Cites Critical Role of Reference Data
Underscoring A-Team Consulting’s own research in this area, Tabb Group’s new report on the future of trading-related technology, points to reference data’s critical role in achieving the much-vaunted goal of straight-through-processing. Tabb describes external STP as “moribund” post September 11 and the demise of the GSTPA. However, the report – published last month and entitled…
The Big Boys Start to Circle the Wagons
In every segment of the financial information technology space, there comes a time when the success of the grass roots specialist vendors comes to the attention of the bigger umbrella suppliers of IT services and applications. That moment may be in the process of coming very early to the area of reference data. The past…
IBM Gets Serious About Reference Data Through Purchase of Dresdner Platform, Outsourcing Deal
IBM’s deal last month with Dresdner Bank of Germany seems to give some teeth to the IT services company’s approach to reference data management after talking about the segment for quite some time. The agreement also gives IBM a pricing database and management tool for risk and regulatory reporting – code-named Project Greenwich – to…
FIMA Event Delivers on Promise of Broad View of Reference Data
The Financial Information Management conference (FIMA 2003) held in London at the beginning of this month held much promise for executives anxious to learn about the intricacies of reference data and the benefits of its application. It didn’t disappoint. Speakers from ABN Amro, Barclays Capital, Robeco Asset Management, Merrill Lynch, the U.K. Financial Services Association…
FT Interactive Data Keen to Put SEC Pricing Slap Behind It
Financial Times Interactive Data (FT Interactive Data) will be anxious to dispel any industry disquiet caused by its settlement this month with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). FT Interactive Data was named in the SEC’s civil fraud action against mutual fund company Heartland Advisers, allegedly for allowing Heartland to influence FT Interactive Data’s…
Rabobank Adopts Xenomorph’s TimeScape for Risk Data Platform
Rabobank of the Netherlands is upgrading the data management infrastructure used to support the risk operations of its Rabobank International unit, Netherlands. The big Dutch bank – long a user of U.K. data management system supplier Xenomorph’s Data Analysis & Integration System (XDAIS) – is implementing the vendor’s new TimeScape platform, which offers substantial functional…
Swift Outlines Calendar for Market Data Vendor Category
Following its launch of a pilot for market data suppliers to offer their services via its network, Swift has outlined the timeline for the proposed adoption of a new participant category for these vendors. Speaking at the Sixth Annual Conference on Corporate Actions Processing in New York last month, Swift partner solutions business manager Linda…
FTI Upgrades StreetEnterprise Suite
Financial Technologies International (FTI) has upgraded its StreetEnterprise suite of securities processing applications. Among the enhanced features is improved data management designed to ease the selection, implementation and use of reference data throughout an organization.
Telekurs, Soliton Team Up to Release Time Square VDF Interface
Swiss reference data vendor Telekurs has teamed up with Soliton to introduce an interface between its Valordata Feed (VDF) and Soliton’s Time Square data management system. VDF is being added to Soliton’s library of Vendor Data Acquisition Workflows, allowing firms to manage reference data workflow, from acquisition to distribution, through an automated process.