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Asset Control Adds Telekurs Valordata Feed

Asset Control says it has added Telekurs’ Valdordata Feed (VDF) content to its centralised data management solution. VDF provides reference data, corporate actions information and pricing data on more than 3 million financial instruments, with up to 10 years of historical information and up to 1500 data fields related to each instrument.

Paladyne, Reuters Expand Offering to Include Hosted Reuters DataScope Onsite

Reuters and Paladyne Systems, solutions provider for the hedge fund industry, have announced the integration of Reuters DataScope Onsite with the Paladyne suite of products. Reuters DataScope Onsite provides pricing, factors, terms and conditions, corporate actions, cashflows and analytical data on the universe of asset-backed securities including MBS, Agency Pools, Whole Loans, TBA Pools and…

Surviving the Liquidity Crisis with Enterprise Data Management (EDM)

Written by: Neil Edelstein, Senior Director, Product Development, GoldenSource Corporation. Throughout the boom in complex leveraged and collateralized debt instruments, high yields have all but blinded investors to the significant risk. Now that the market has turned sour, and lenders are calling in the debts, investors are learning the hard way exactly how CDOs and…

Data Management Software Provider Siperian Bags $25M in Expansion Funding

Master data management (MDM) platform provider Siperian says it has closed an oversubscribed $25 million Series E financing. Led by new investor, Investor Growth Capital (IGC), and with participation from 100 per cent of Siperian’s existing investors, the funding will be used to continue the company’s European expansion, accelerate channel development and further advance the…

ICMA Ltd Renames, Builds Warehouse To Support New Information Services

Under its new name and governance, Xtrakter – the market services division of the International Capital Market Assocation (ICMA), formerly known as ICMA Limited – is targeting a higher profile as a data vendor. Xtrakter is gearing up to unleash a raft of new fixed income pricing and reference data products, and believes its legal…

Syn~ Scalability Benchmark

Summary This document describes an exercise to measure the scalability and performance of the Syn~Settlements application upon a Linux/HP platform. The results recorded include: ~ demonstrated scalability consistent with a linear model; ~ peak throughput of the scalable system at 77K trades per hour; ~ demonstrated efficacy of quad-core processor architectures as a means of…

Slovakia’s Tatra Bank Deploys SuperDerivatives

Tatra Bank, one of Slovakia’s highest rated banks and a member of the Raiffeisen Zentralbank Osterreich AG (RZB) Group, is deploying SuperDerivatives’ platform for commodities derivatives. SD-CM, SuperDerivatives’ benchmark system for commodity options, provides real-time market prices, risk management and analytics for options on any traded commodity including energy products, metals, and agriculture commodities.

Patent Pending Ref Data Utility Offers Risk Mitigation, Seeks Backers

The inventors of an ambitious plan to create a risk mitigating Reference Data Utility for the securities industry are entering a new phase of marketing for their business venture in the belief that financial institutions can be galvanised by the lure of reduced capital and collateral requirements into solving once and for all the age-old…

‘Assume Role of Vendor’ to Ensure Rigour in Applying Data Licences, State Street’s John White tells FIMA

A clear and thorough understanding of precisely how data is utilised within investment firms, tied to “differentiating” data usage, is essential before data licensing can be effectively and successfully embarked upon, John White, principal data management, State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), has contended. Knowing “upfront” what is explicitly covered within contracts signed with data vendors…

Now is the Time for Reference Data Collaboration, TowerGroup Says. But is it Really?

When it comes to reference data, TowerGroup has something of a reputation for spotting a trend just as it is about to become a major industry focus. Statistics from the analyst’s first major report on the subject in 2001 and its updated iteration in 2005 are still liberally cited by industry commentators in print and…