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Golden Copy Protagonists Insist There’s More to the Concept than Just Hype
Our editorial last month about the cynical use of the term Golden Copy by the ever-growing number of newcomers to the business of reference data drew a crisp rejoinder from Kathleen Hawk of Clearview Associates, which provides marketing and public relations services to Asset Control. As you know, Asset Control was perhaps the pioneer of…
Access International Enters Final Phase of Sale of GPS Security Master Database
As Reference Data Review went to press, Access International Financial Services was entering the final phase of the process of selling its Global Trade Processing System (GTPS). A key element of GTPS is the Global Product Suite (GPS) security master database. At press time, it wasn’t clear how many – if any – bids or…
The Interview: Full Circle for EDI
Nearly a decade ago, a licence to distribute London Stock Exchange started Exchange Data International down the data aggregation route. RDR reports on how far they’ve come A little over two years ago, the phrase reference data was pretty much unknown. Today it is in danger of becoming one of those tick-box capabilities that suppliers…
DTCC White Paper Offers Plan for Corporate Actions Process
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) continues to push its proposals for the transformation of corporate action processing with the release of a blueprint plan that includes proposals for the development of centralised data cleansing and hub-based messaging. Earlier this year, the DTCC launched its Global Corporate Action (GCA) validation service (see RDR, June)…
FT Interactive to Offer Access to Luxembourg UCITS Data
FT Interactive Data has formed a strategic alliance with CCLux, a Luxembourg specialist in UCITS data, through which it will be the first vendor to provide international access to CCLux’s UCITS data and related documentation UCITS – Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities – have been harmonised by EC legislation since 1985. The legislation…
Bank of Ireland Treasury Goes Live with PaceMetrics STP Kit
Bank of Ireland Treasury & International Banking Dublin has gone live with PaceMetrics’ PaceMaker and PaceManager products, as part of a broad straight-through-processing initiative. The PaceMetrics systems will help provide the bank with transaction data that can be used to increase operational efficiency and to manage operational risk. The rollout of the live product follows…
Valuelink Introduces Shares in Issue Service
Valuelink has extended its validated date service with the addition of a new Shares in Issue service, supplied either as a stand-alone service or as an additional data item within existing ValueLink services. This is the third new service that the company has introduced this year, adding to a Securities Masterfile service launched in May…
FT Interactive Adds Constituent Prices to iBoxx Service
FT Interactive Data is adding iBoxx constituent prices to complement the existing iBoxx indices that it has carried since 2001. The iBoxx indices and constituent pricing data are used by investors as a benchmark for European bonds. The vendor will now offer both intra-day for fund accounting and end-of-day for mainstream portfolio valuation purposes. The…
Hillier-Brook Quits MoneyLine
Ian Hillier-Brook, director of MIS at MoneyLine Telerate, has left the company, which he joined in April last year when MoneyLine acquired Market Information Services, a specialist in time-series database technologies that he had founded six years ago. Hillier-Brook is now working on establishing a new venture aimed at providing marketing and management services to…
SmartStream Technologies Hires Vernon to Product Management Role
SmartStream Technologies has appointed industry specialist Neil Vernon from PaceMetrics to the role of product manager, for its TLM (Transaction Lifecycle Management) solution, a component of its STP Control Architecture. Vernon was product director at PaceMetrics where he was responsible for implementing STP solutions at HypoVereinsbank, ABN Amro, Deutsche and Lehman Brothers among others. Prior…