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Desmond Backs PaceMetrics with Increased Stake
PaceMetrics, which earlier this year signed a global distribution deal for its software with Moneyline Telerate, has had a further investment from its principal backer IIU, which has increased its holding in the company. IIU is the Dublin-based investment vehicle of Irish financier Dermot Desmond. It already has a portfolio of strategic holdings in technology…
EDI and Goal Team for Trade Cycle Tax Solution
Reference data provider Exchange Data International has entered into a strategic alliance with Goal Group, which develops systems handling the taxation elements of the securities processing cycle. Goal’s offering, GTRS, automates the process of reclaiming cross-border withholding tax on securities investment income, such as dividends, supported by EDI’s international securities administration data. Custodian banks reclaim…
ISIPS Reflects Increased Industry Focus on Reference Data, A-Team Consulting Partners With Matrix Services.
We at Reference Data Review enjoyed our trip to this year’s ISIPS – the International Securities Industry Practitioners Symposium – event organised by STP Information Services in London. Reflecting the increased industry focus on reference data, the entire first day of the two-day event was given over to this very subject. Judging by the turnout,…
Reuters’ Restrictions on RIC Codes Relaxed in Bid for Widespread Standards Adoption
The decision by Reuters to license the use of its proprietary Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs) has drawn cautious welcomes from most involved in the reference data industry. But some question whether the contractual restrictions that Reuters hopes to enforce on the use of the codes will can be reconciled with their general adoption. The vendor,…
Calling All Data Feeds…
Dutch data management specialist Asset Control has ambitious plans to integrate the complete set of reference datafeeds into a single industry utility, chief executive Ger Rosenkamp explains. When Asset Control announced at the end of last month that it had mapped and normalised Telekurs Financial’s Valordata Feed (VDF) to its AC Plus system and ACDEX…
Asset Control Analyses Data With Analytics Suite
Netherlands-based data management specialist Asset Control has released AC Contour, an analytics tool, as part of its AC Business Suite of tools and applications. AC Contour is a tool for analysing data to create and visualize curves and surfaces including volatilities, correlation and variance covariance matrices, zero curves and bond curves. It was designed in…
Industry Groups RDUG, Redac Talk Of Merger
The two reference data industry groups – the US-based Reference Data Coalition (Redac) and the European Reference Data Users Group (RDUG) – are close to finalising details of how to merge their activities”. With the focus of both groups in the same area, it would seem a logical step to merge the efforts, providing the…
Gershon Leaves Misys For City Networks In Asia
London-based financial software and services provider City Networks has hired Andy Gershon as sales manager for Asia in the company’s Hong Kong office. Gershon joins a team of 30 staff based in Hong Kong. He moves from Misys’ trading and risk management software division MKI, where he was regional sales manager for the Greater China…
Fame Delivers Reference Data Engine On IBM And Linux
Fame Information Services is to implement its historical and reference data engine on the IBM’s AIX and Linux for zSeries operating systems as a result of a partnership with the computer giant. Joan Meltzer, IBM’s director, solutions marketing enterprise servers, says that products like Fame provide real performance improvement along with overall cost savings. “Customers…
Survey Finds Perception Gap On Data Quality
Roughly 40 per cent of corporate managers expect growth in the size and budget of their internal market data groups, but data management outsourcing is under consideration at a minority of firms according to a survey commissioned by data management specialist Iverson Financial Systems. The survey also identified a difference between users’ and vendors’ perceptions….