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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…
Tullett Liberty Underpins Trade Notification with Robust Approach to Reference Data
Last summer’s release of Tullett Liberty’s Post:marker service heralded the interdealer broker’s first commercial foray into straight-through-processing. But as chief information officer Geoff Chapman explains, the firm has underpinned the offering with counterparty and security master databases it started work on more than five years ago. When interdealer-broker Tullett Liberty launched its Post:marker trade notifications…
Cocktails at Dusk or Weekender? Sibos Reflects Asia Markets Mood By Miroslav Janiic, Finetik Partners
Since Swift decided to go ahead with Sibos and to defy the doom-mongers about a possible SARS backlash, the economic data from Asian markets has improved. Asian countries offer record-low interest rates, record-high liquidity levels and a banks community with cleaner balance sheets than at any time in the past six years. The pump is…
Integration of Data and Software Analyzed in New A-Team Report
The raised profile of the issues surrounding reference data has sparked many data management projects, but reference data cannot be considered in isolation. What is needed is a coordinated approach to data and its integration with operational software used throughout the financial services enterprise. After all, the uncoordinated approach that saw millions spent on technology…
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…