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Datactics Moves into Iceland with Contract Win at Arion Bank
Datactics has won its first customer in Iceland, Arion Bank, which will use the company’s RegMetrics and Single Customer View data quality solutions to support an enterprise data management programme. The bank selected Datactics after a competitive vendor selection process that included a technically demanding and tightly specified proof of concept across three departments, each…
Global Merces Selects SS&C Solutions to Support Growth
Australian alternative asset manager, Global Merces, has selected SS&C’s investment accounting, asset servicing and mutual fund platforms to support growth both locally and globally. The deal marks SS&C’s first Australian client win since it closed the acquisition of DST Systems earlier this year. Global Merces selected SS&C’s HiTrust unit registry and pricing solution because it…
Blackrock Veteran Joins Opus Nebula
Cloud-based end-to-end reporting service provider Opus Nebula has hired industry veteran Les Gosling as its new business development director and head of sales. Gosling joins Opus Nebula to accelerate the adoption of the firm’s ‘Reporting as a Service’ offering within the asset and wealth management community, initially within the UK, European, and US markets. With…
Arkéa IS Selects NeoXam Tracker 3 to Improve Portfolio Management
Arkéa Investment Services (Arkéa IS), the asset management and private banking arm of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, has selected NeoXam Tracker 3 as a front-to-middle office portfolio management system for its affiliates Federal Finance Gestion and Schelcher Prince Gestion. NeoXam Tracker 3 will bring together Arkéa IS’s activities on a single platform, simplifying harmonisation of its…
Broadridge Adds StatPro Portfolio Analytics to Performance Reporting Platform
Broadridge Financial Solutions has extended its performance reporting platform through a strategic partnership with StatPro Group, a provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry. The inclusion of StatPro analytics is in progress for Broadridge performance clients and is expected to be completed by the end of 2018….
Datactics LEI Match Engine Provides Free LEI Health Check Service
Datactics is offering a free LEI health check service that helps banks and asset managers ascertain the data quality of company information they hold in a legal entity master. The release of the service could not be better timed, with the MiFID II requirement for all counterparties to transactions to have a valid LEI coming…
How to Maximise Datasets Created by MiFID II
MiFID II generates about three trillion new data points, begging the question of how financial institutions will maximise their use of new data sources created by the regulation. But how useful is the data six months into MiFID II, what challenges does it present, and will there be winners and losers among firms that can…
Sheena Clark Extends Remit with Role of Managing Director at BCC Group
Sheena Clark, founder of Financial Machineries, has extended her remit by partnering BCC Group and becoming UK managing director of the company. At BCC, Clark is responsible for all global client activities around the group’s ONE Solution financial data enterprise platform and its market data cloud solutions. She will use her extensive market knowledge and…
Recorded Webinar: How to maximise data sources created by MiFID II
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) creates new data sources that could be used to identify business opportunities and gain competitive edge. The sources include Approved Publication Arrangements (APA) and ESMA’s Financial Instruments Reference Data System (FIRDS). The regulation also mandates use of standard data, disaggregated market data feeds, and ISINs for OTC…
IHS Markit Repositions Business with Acquisition of Ipreo and Sale of MarkitSERV
It’s all change at IHS Markit as the company pushes further into the alternatives market through an agreement to acquire Ipreo and plans to move out of OTC derivatives processing through a sale of its MarkitSERV derivatives trade processing business. The company has agreed to acquire Ipreo, a provider of financial services technology, data and…