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Screen Consultants Expands Consultancy and Sales Teams
Dutch data technology vendor Screen Consultants has appointed Bart Aerssens and Denis Nohar to its market data consultancy team and has hired Fons Richter to support sales in Europe and the Middle East. Both were previously market data managers with Netherlands-based banks: Aerssens with F. van Lanschot Bankiers and Nohar with Staal Bankiers/Achmea. Screen says…
Fame Information Services Joins Migration to Linux
Fame Information Services has become the latest vendor to announce that it has ported its systems to run on the ‘open source’ Linux operating system. Industry analyst Meta Group predicted, in a December 2002 study, that by 2006 or 2007, Linux will run on 45% of new servers. Back in May, Asset Control announced that…
Asset Control Partners with Vitria for Data Dissemination
Business process integration specialist Vitria has formed a partnership with Asset Control. The two companies will develop a joint solution, the Asset Control Integration Module, to facilitate the dissemination of ‘cleansed’ and standardized reference data to multiple systems. The joint product, scheduled for availability in the third quarter of this year, will combine Vitria’s BusinessWare…
Wachovia Licenses Xcitek
Wachovia Corp. has licensed Xcitek CostBasis’s XCB solution to calculate cost allocation factors and tax opinions on corporate actions. XCB is an automated solution for supplying cost basis and tax data. Susan Lane, managing director, securities servicing, Wachovia, says the product is user-friendly and cost effective in supporting the bank’s trust account base. “It provided…
Advent Software and Netik Seal Strategic Integration Alliance
Advent Software and Netik have formed a strategic alliance to integrate Advent’s Geneva and Netik’s InterView V7 software. The combined products will provide fund administrators, prime brokers and global asset managers with an integrated system for investment accounting, data management and reporting. The Geneva software features a single unified data model that supports flexible reporting…
As More Suppliers Join the Reference Data Party, Will Commercial Issues Hijack Industry Debate?
July is upon us, and while visitors to the SIA Show in New York last month were taken aback by some unseasonable rain, everyone is settling down for a long, hot summer. Or perhaps not. Judging by the flow of announcements from vendors in the reference data space, things are not slowing down just yet….
KBC Bank Selects Fame’s ReferencePoint for European Risk Management Project
KBC Bank & Insurance Group has begun to implement a major reference data project using Fame Information Services’ ReferencePoint system. Fame has also been contracted to customise and implement the system under a fixed-price, fixed-delivery-date contract. As part of its risk management strategy KBC, headquartered in Brussels, will be using ReferencePoint to integrate multiple data…
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…