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AIM Software and Italian Partner Implement GAIN at Arner Bank

Lugano, Switzerland-based Arner Bank is implementing AIM Software’s data management environment GAIN for the integration of price, static and corporate actions data provided by Bloomberg and Telekurs Financial. The project is slated for completion in September, with go-live planned for October. Arner Bank is implementing GAIN in conjunction with Galileo – the Security Master File,…

West LB in UAT with Asset Control’s AC Plus, Plans To Go Live for Managing WM, Bloomberg in October

The operations group of German bank West LB AG has begun the roll-out of Asset Control’s AC Plus data management solution to first replace a legacy mainframe system managing feeds from WM and Bloomberg, with a view to using AC Plus to replace an inhouse built centralised data management solution in the longer term. The…

QED Unveils Single Back Office Data Source for Asset Managers

In a bid to help its institutional investment clients reduce the cost and complexity of managing data sources, New Jersey headquartered QED Financial Systems has launched QED Data Connection, a solution designed to enable users of its investment accounting system to access a range of middle and back office data from multiple vendors via a…

Bank of New York Mellon Reviews Legacy Reference Data Assets

The Bank of New York Mellon is currently analysing the reference data assets inherited from both the Bank of New York and Mellon pre-merger, as part of its efforts to create a “best of breed” platform to support its clients going forward. A decision is expected by the end of this year on what the…

Northern Trust to Provide Data Management To Vontobel under Outsourcing Arrangement

Northern Trust has successfully migrated the non-portfolio management related investment operations – including data management – of Vontobel Asset Management, the New York-based investment management subsidiary of Switzerland’s Vontobel Holding, to Northern Trust’s investment operations outsourcing platform. As well as handling the investment manager’s data management operations, Northern Trust will provide post-trade execution support, trade…

The Chief Data Officer: Here to Stay or Just a Flash in the Pan?

Remember when the acronym CDO referred to collateralized debt obligations, a fancy type of credit derivative? Well, think again. CDOs are now chief data officers, C-level executives charged with the corporate ‘ownership’ of a firm’s data assets (although quite where that leaves chief information officers isn’t yet clear….). The implication is that CDOs sit with…

Telekurs’ Fininfo Buy May Signal Strategy for Non-Organic Growth

Telekurs’ agreement this month to acquire its former redistributor in France, Fininfo SA, may signal a new willingness on the part of the big Swiss reference and market data vendor to explore avenues for non-organic growth after decades of shunning acquisitive ventures. The €217.7 Million purchase seems to be a good fit, with Fininfo more…

CDO Software Integrates CMA DataVision Feed

CDO Software, provider of tools for users of structured credit products, has integrated the CMA DataVision same day credit default swap (CDS) pricing data into its CDO Tools suite. Sunay Shah, CEO and founder of CDO Software says in today’s market most firms want as much transparency as possible, and that requires taking numerous different…

Performance Measurement Emerges as Beneficiary Of Rimes’ Hosted Data Management Platform

Swiss private bank Pictet & Co. has emerged as one of several asset management organizations that have applied Rimes Technologies SmartFiles custom data file service to their performance attribution operations. Rimes’ SmartFiles is providing firms like Pictet with a normalized and aggregated feed of benchmark, pricing and other data sourced from numerous and disparate suppliers,…

Xenomorph Adds IDC Data Services To TimeScape Management System

Xenomorph is to make Interactive Data’s Pricing & Reference Data services available to users of its TimeScape multi-asset data management and analysis software platform. The two recently concluded discussions that have been ongoing since last autumn, and Xenomorph is now prioritizing the addition of Interactive Data’s services according to client requirements. Under the deal, users…