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Interactive Data Experienced Strong Growth in Q4 2008, Says Exiting CEO Clark
Despite the downturn in the markets, it seems that Interactive Data had a good end to 2008 in terms of financial results. The data vendor’s fourth quarter results for last year indicate that its revenue was up 6.6% on previous year’s figures to US$194.1 million from US$182.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2007. “Despite…
Solix Technologies Partners with Oracle to Embed EDMS in Flexcube
EDM vendor Solix Technologies has entered into a global partner agreement with Oracle Financial Services Software, under which Oracle will offer Solix EDMS as embedded functionality in Oracle Flexcube. The combined solution is aimed at automating archive and purge processes by classifying data, configuring and executing archiving and data migration routines, explains Shekhar Dasgupta, president…
Reference Data Getting its Day in the Sun, Marcus Evans Delegates Told
Reference data management is no longer at the fringes of an organisation in terms of the perception of its strategic importance by senior management, said Sean Taylor, director at Deutsche Wealth Management, to the delegation at Marcus Evans’ recent Reference Data conference on 12 February. Taylor, who was chairing the event, indicated that increased regulatory…
Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg Remain at the Top for Data Provision, Says Burton-Taylor
The market share of the top two data giants, Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg, increased yet further still last year, according to Burton-Taylor International Consulting. Although the spend on data vendor solutions was flat from 2007 to 2008, Thomson Reuters garnered 34% of the market and Bloomberg was a close second at the top of the…
Reference Data Management to Witness “Winds of Change” Over Next 12 Months, Says Deutsche’s Sean Taylor
Reference data management is no longer at the fringes of an organisation in terms of the perception of its strategic importance by senior management, said Sean Taylor, director at Deutsche Wealth Management, to the delegation at Marcus Evans’ recent Reference Data conference last week. Taylor, who was chairing the event, indicated that increased regulatory scrutiny…
Daiwa Securities’ Next Focus for Data Quality Measurement is on Derivatives, Says Pampathi
Following the establishment of its data quality measurement framework last year, Daiwa Securities is now looking to expand its data management functions to the area of derivatives, explained Vinay Pampathi, executive director of the firm’s technology division, to delegates to last week’s Marcus Evans Reference Data conference. “Over the next six months we will be…
EDM Vendor m35 Launches New Version of DataTrans Solution with Focus on Risk
Enterprise risk management system vendor m35 has launched a new version of its DataTrans solution aimed at the enterprise data management (EDM) market. Version 3.5 of its flagship product, which is used to distribute data from multiple sources to downstream systems, features a new data management dashboard and improved user interfacing, says the vendor. Gavin…
Two Unnamed Banks Sign up for UnaVista’s Trading Data and Sedol Masterfile Capabilities
Two unnamed banks have signed up this month for access to the London Stock Exchange’s upgraded web-based matching reconciliation and data integration service, UnaVista. One bank has opted to used the service for suspicious trading activity monitoring, whereas the other is looking to LSE’s Sedol Masterfile for securities reference data checking. The service, which was…
Trillium Software and Syncsort Team Up for Data Quality Enhancements to DMExpress
Data quality solution vendor Trillium Software and data integration, protection and sorting software vendor Syncsort have designed a software-based application connector that links the two vendors’ offerings together. The connector therefore links the Trillium Software System data quality product with DMExpress, Syncsort’s data integration and extract, transform and load (ETL) solution. The partnership agreement is…
Asset Control Upgrades Tapmaster, Adds Graphical Visualisation and Exception Handling
Following the expansion of its instrument coverage last year, Asset Control has yet again upgraded its Tapmaster data management software, but this time with bells and whistles centred on improving its user friendliness and functionality. Version 4.0 of the solution therefore includes enhanced validation, graphical visualisation and exception handling, says the vendor. Asset Control has…