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GlobeOp Expands Dublin Office
GlobeOp Financial Services is relocating and expanding its current Dublin office to serve increased demand from funds based in or extending into Europe. Vernon Barback, GlobeOp president and chief operating officer said: “We see continued European market growth in areas where we offer specialist expertise and can leverage our global technology platform – such as…
Vanlint Elaborates on GoldenSource’s ASX Implementation, EDM Trends in Asia
Last month, EDM platform provider GoldenSource announced that it had won a deal to provide the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) with a new corporate data management platform. Neill Vanlint, managing director of EMEA and APAC client operations for the vendor, explains that the GoldenSource EDM platform was selected after a rigorous two month long proof…
Industry Funds Management Selects SunGard’s Investran and VPM
Industry Funds Management (IFM), a leading global investment manager has selected SunGard’s Investran and VPM solutions to help streamline and enhance back-office accounting across all of its investment products and portfolios. IFM manages over A$30 billion across four asset classes: infrastructure, private equity, debt investments and listed equity portfolios. SunGard’s Investran, an award winning application…
Cadis Nabs Collier to Support Sell-Side Growth
Cadis, the global EDM specialist has appointed George Collier as Director of Sales, Investment Banking and Capital Markets. Collier joins from Asset Control where he served as New Business Sales Executive for EMEA, focusing on large tier-one financial institutions. He previously held positions as VP of Sales for Siperian EMEA, now part of Informatica. He…
Asset Owners Change Approach to Risk Management
MSCI, a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, published today the results of its 2011 Global Asset Owners Survey: Back to the Future of Risk Management. With 85 participants from 26 countries, representing roughly USD 5.5 trillion in assets under management, this is one of the most in-depth surveys to look at risk…
SIX Telekurs Launches New On-Demand Services for the Rapid Delivery of High Quality Data
SIX Telekurs has released new delivery services for the most up-to-date financial information from its comprehensive securities database, Valordata Feed. These innovations meet growing market needs for on-demand prices, reference data and corporate actions. VDF Pulse delivers push-delta updates of reference data and time-critical corporate actions every 15 minutes. These intervals reduce manual entry work…
Bloomberg Tradebook Boosts Independent Research Offering
Bloomberg Tradebook, a leading global agency broker, announced today that six new independent research providers have been selected to join its research services offering. Bloomberg Tradebook clients now have access to premium market research from 15 independent research firms that provide an informed perspective on the markets they cover. The Analyst, H&M Consulting Group (HMCG),…
The Investment Fund Industry Should be Preparing for FATCA Already
Multifonds, a leader in flexible, multi-jurisdictional, single-platform fund administration software, says that while in some cases FATCA’s implications remain unclear, on other points asset managers, administrators and vendors can make progress now. The US’s Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), which will come into effect on January 1 2013, has far-reaching implications for the investment…
Oracle’s Kumar Talks up a Consolidated Approach to Finance and Risk Data, Exadata’s Capabilities
Oracle has long been championing the capabilities of its Exadata Database Machine, which forms the foundation of a number of its other offerings such as the Financial Services Data Warehouse that was launched in January this year. Senthil Kumar, group vice president and head of global business development for financial services at Oracle, speaks to Reference…
Asset Control’s New AC Plus Module is Aimed at Efficiency Gains and Increased Interactivity, Says Lynch
Last week EDM solution vendor Asset Control launched a new module for its AC Plus data management platform that is aimed at automating the securities set up process). Phil Lynch, president and CEO of the vendor, explains that by providing an automated process right from the outset to collect the required instrument data, firms can…