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RDUG Lists Executive Committee Membership
In its latest update to members, the Reference Data User Group (RDUG) listed the membership of its executive commitee, which comprises 12 executives involved in the reference data area. They are: Alan Plom (chairman), Gartmore Investment Management; Anthony Kirby (secretary), Deutsche Borse; Iman Szeto, Northern Trust; Stuart McKinlay, State Street; Michael Atkin, Reference Data Coalition…
European Central Securities Depositories Association Group to Study Corporate Actions
The European Central Securities Depositories Association has established a working group to look at how to meet clearing and settlement recommendations issued by the Giovannini Group, including one regarding corporate actions. The group – headed by Michael Kempe, a manager at U.K. depository Crest – expects to report on its findings in the fourth quarter…
FT Interactive Data Launches eDOL
FT Interactive Data went live last month with eDOL, the electronic version of the London Stock Exchange’s Daily Official List. The new service is now available for download via the Internet in .PDF format. The Daily Official List is the legal record of daily trading activity on the London Stock Exchange.
Exchange Data International Partners with Market Data Integrators in U.S.
U.K. data vendor Exchange Data International (EDI) has entered into a marketing alliance with Chicago-based Market Data Integrators (MDI). Under the deal, MDI will market EDI’s data services in the U.S., outside of the Northeast. Kurt Klein, MDI president, says the company plans to expand EDI’s reach particularly among buy-side users and expects to field…
TIAA-CREF Taps Fame for Enterprise Data Mangement
Buy-side giant Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) has chosen Fame Information Services’ ReferencePoint as the basis for a new enterprise data management platform to support its risk operation. ReferencePoint will be used to manage the flow of both real-time and historical data into its risk applications.
Checkfree Acquires Heliograph, Boosting Corporate Actions Capability
Checkfree Corp., a financial data management company based in Atlanta, has acquired Heliograph, a London-based financial messaging and corporate actions processing company. Checkfree will pay $18.3 million for all Heliograph shares outstanding. Heliograph, which has annual revenues of around $8 million, will be merged into Checkfree’s Financial and Compliance Solutions (CFCS) unit, part of its…
Reuters Renews Deal with S&P Securities Evaluations
Reuters has extended its long-standing deal with Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations. S&P will continue to redistribute 1.9 million Reuters/EJV taxable fixed income valuations, alongside fixed income evaluations and global pricing from other sources, including third-party services. According to Todd McGhee, of Reuters enterprise information products group, the S&P relationship predates Reuters’ ownership of EJV,…
Iverson Upgrades GIM Index Data Service
Iverson Financial Systems has added an index family indicator and a total return index value field to its Global Index Monitor (GIM) index data service. The index family indicator is a parent index of index categories, which can help with mapping of indices internally. The total return index value field provides a measure of the…
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.