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Invesco PowerShares Utilises Interactive Data

Invesco PowerShares is using Interactive Data’s Fair Value Information Service and Basket Calculation Service as inputs to the valuation processes for its exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The Basket Calculation Service provides the IOPVs for Invesco PowerShares’ new municipal bond ETFs. It uses Interactive Data’s real-time fixed-income valuations, real-time equity pricing and interest rate data to calculate…

LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV) Adds Richard Bennett as LakeFrontData Associate

Richard Bennett has joined the LakeFrontData Partner Program as a LakeFrontData Ventures (LDV) associate partner. Bennett, most recently, was working with Standard & Poor’s, assisting the data vendor with its global equity index platform environment. In his new role Bennett will be concentrating his efforts on expanding and supporting the LDV enterprise data consulting business.

Benelux’s Petercam Goes Live with KEYdata from Sterci for Centralised Data Management

Switzerland-headquartered STP software vendor Sterci says Benelux-based private banking and asset management institution Petercam has been using its KEYdata solution for reference data management since January 2008. Sterci is known less as a reference data specialist than as a provider of trade process automation solutions – though it also boasts Euroclear Bank as a KEYdata…

GoldenSource Adds Raft of New Connections to Support Risk Management, Ease EDM Implementation

Enterprise data management system supplier GoldenSource has introduced a series of connections to sources of high risk/high value data in areas such as derivatives, risk, pricing, corporate actions and counterparty data, with the addition of the Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Cusip Master File database, Markit RED, RIMES Fixed Income Benchmarks data platform, Bloomberg Extended BackOffice,…

Paladyne Systems Wins Symphony Reference Data Repository Deal

Paladyne Systems, a solutions provider for the hedge fund industry, has licensed its Paladyne product suite to Symphony Asset Management, an investment advisor to a number of institutional accounts. Symphony will implement Paladyne Security Master as its centralised repository for global security terms and conditions including all listed and OTC security types as well as…

Downstream Integration a Data Issue – Not a Technical Issue – JPMC’s Serenita Tells FIMA Delegates

As the enterprise data management (EDM) discipline has matured during recent years, there has been a growing focus on the importance of downstream distribution of data. One element of the solution to this problem has been presented as integration technology to facilitate linkages between data management systems and data consuming applications. In line with this…

Telekurs Introduces Standard Interface Between VDF And Eagle’s EDM System…

Telekurs has introduced a standard interface between its Valordata Feed (VDF) and Eagle Investment Systems’ data management solution. Eagle’s solution is a data management platform that provides connectivity and data integration from numerous sources and consolidates it in one location. The Valordata Feed delivers information from Telekurs’ database of structured, encoded securities information. Covering 4…

Buy Side EDM Demand Holding Up, New-Look Cadis Software Claims

The evolution of the buy side EDM specialist formerly known as Citadel Associates that was set in train by the departure of managing director Jean Williams and the company’s acquisition by a group of seasoned financial technology investors mid-last year has culminated in its renaming as Cadis Software. As the vendor assumes the name of…

Capgemini Majors on Flexibility for Reference Data Outsourcing

Capgemini’s recently announced reference data management (RDM) services, which include business process outsourcing (BPO), are differentiated from competitive offerings by their flexibility, the consulting, technology and outsourcing provider claims. Capgemini will not be saying to clients, “here’s a solution – take it or leave it”, according to Saleel Nair, its global leader of reference data…

Petercam Live with Sterci’s KEYdata for Centralising Data Management

STP software vendor Sterci says Benelux-based private banking and asset management institution Petercam has been using its KEYdata solution for reference data management since January 2008. KEYdata is being used by the Petercam Group for centralising reference data on market instruments. The data received from various sources is controlled, validated and sometimes aggregated before being…