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Integrated Decision Systems Taps Christiansen for Relationship Management …
Integrated Decision Systems has hired Stephen Christiansen as senior director, relationship management. Christiansen joins the U.S. provider of portfolio management systems following stints in client-facing roles at ADP, Reuters and Quotron Systems. Don Totter, who joined as CEO recently, also spent time at ADP.
Financial Data Management Event Offers Practical Insight
Osney Media’s Financial Data Management conference in London next month promises to yield some insight into issues surrounding management of information within the financial services marketplace. Osney Media believes the key data management question for financial institutions has shifted in the past 12 months from “Should a data management project be implemented?” to “How will…
Soliton Revamps Management in Bid to Leverage Data Platform
Reference data management platform provider Soliton has revamped its senior management team in a bid to exploit growing industry interest in consistent, timely and accurate reference data. Soliton’s TimeSquare offering is designed to automate the acquisition and management of reference data and allows institutions to create a single, sustainable security master database. The reorganization involves…
Invesco Marks First Global Deployment For XSP
Invesco’s implementation of XcitekSolutionsPlus’s corporate actions automation platform, announced last month, was strategically important for the vendor and may be a pointer of the future direction of its global ambitions. Invesco will use the XSP platform currently deployed by its U.S. parent, Amvescap, to service its European and Asian operations, marking the first time an…
FT Interactive Leads Suppliers in Interface Race, Study Finds
New research from A-Team Consulting, publisher of Reference Data Review, demonstrates market-leading reference data supplier FT Interactive Data’s dominant market position in terms of interfaces to a broad swathe of financial services software applications. The wide-ranging research – Software Providers: Working with Reference Data – offers a view of how reference data is used to…
Kx Systems to Offer Testing for London Stock Exchange Trade Data
Kx Systems has forged a relationship with the London Stock Exchange that will allow institutions to use Kx’s data analysis capabilities to test trading strategies using LSE historical trade and quote data. Kx has had a similar arrangement with the New York Stock Exchange for several years.
CSK Software, Telekurs Team Up to Offer Integrated Access to VDF Data
CSK Software and Telekurs Financial are collaborating to offer Telekurs’ VDF data feed via CSK’s X-Gen integration solution. Using X-Gen, VDF clients will be able to integrate securities master, corporate actions and pricing information more easily with their existing applications.
Deutsche Borse Mulls Offering Reference Data Services
Fresh from its acquisition of Clearstream International, Deutsche Borse is considering launching a reference data service to complement its planned corporate actions and new-issue data services. These latter two services will be offered to vendor redistributors, some of which are currently testing the service for German and Luxembourg equities and fixed-income instruments. Deutsche Borse hopes…
Thomson Financial Upgrades Datastream Infrastructure
Thomson Financial has implemented an IBM Z990 mainframe to boost capacity of its Thomson Datastream historical database. The upgrade has increased capacity by 35%, offering clients faster response times. Additionally, Thomson has introduced Internet access to Datastream data using the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP). Thomson says German retail bank Nassauische Sparkasse has signed up to…
FTI Wins at Franklin Templeton, M&G
Financial Technologies International (FTI) has chalked up two wins for its StreetReference reference data management platform. Investment manager Franklin Templeton will integrate StreetReference into its existing implementation of FTI’s StreetBooks client records data store. Meanwhile, M&G Investment Management will use StreetReference as part of its so-called Data Mart database of fixed-income securities terms and conditions….