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FIMA Speakers Preach Pragmatic Approach to Data Quality
One of the most memorable pronouncements at FIMA 2007 in New York last month came from a speaker from a major investment management firm who, when asked from the floor how big a problem it is for the data management industry that there are still no global standards for security and entity identification, replied: “Unnecessary…
Swiss Re Asset Management Implements DSTi Data Platform
DST International’s (DSTi’s) Investment Data Platform on Oracle has been implemented at Swiss Re Asset Management (SRAM). Swiss Re has been a DSTi client for nine years. DSTi’s specialist asset management technology has been used to build an investment data hub to streamline the firm’s existing complex data architecture. The solution is comprised of a…
Eagle Joins Charles River Partner Integration Programme
Eagle Investment Systems has become a member of Charles River Development’s (CRD’s) partner integration certification program. The certification is based largely upon the development of standardized interfaces between the Charles River Investment Management System and Eagle PACE and Eagle STAR. The interface between the platforms provides a bi-directional flow of reference and accounting data and…
Japan’s SPARX Group Live on GAIN, AIM Reports More POCs
Tokyo-based asset manager SPARX Group has implemented the GAIN data management platform from Austria’s AIM Software in a project lasting just 10 days. GAIN is handling Asian equities data from Bloomberg and data from the local Japanese Toyo Keizai feed, and ultimately SPARX may deploy GAIN as a centralised data hub across its operations. According…
AIM Adds EDI, Reuters DataScope Select to GAIN
AIM Software has released version 4.0 of its GAIN financial data management platform. The latest release offers a golden copy management platform with functionality for data scrubbing, control and improvement of data quality and standardization of reference data and pricing data, and adds two additional financial data feeds: EDI and Reuters DataScope Select.
ReferenceDataFactory Unveils Extendable Integration Data Model
ReferenceDataFactory has released the RDF Integration Data Model, the result of three years’ development. The new data model provides a standard business view of data across all asset types in a business centric representation. The RDF Integration Data Model is extendable, and can expose data through XML via messaging or web services or through a…
New Asset Control CEO Phil Lynch Plans to Build “Ecosystem” Around Data Management Suite
The combination of Asset Control and TAP Solutions creates a data management product line-up capable of meeting the requirements of financial institutions of all sizes globally, according to the new Asset Control CEO Phil Lynch. For larger institutions, the merged systems offer the prospect of an integrated solution for centralised data management supported by downstream…
SunGard Upgrades referencePoint EDM Solution
SunGard has released version 4.1 of referencePoint, its global enterprise data management solution. The new version provides performance enhancements and additional flexibility within referencePoint’s configuration and workbench tools, reporting and historical data archives.
Perfect Information Re-Launches Filings Database
Perfect Information has re-launched PI Filings, its database comprising more than 7 million company filings, after having given it a feature and interface makeover. “We consulted with our clients to find out what features we could add to Perfect Filings that would improve their productivity and sit with their existing workflow processes,” says Greg Simidian,…
F&C Selects Citadel Associates’ CADIS for Data Management
F&C Asset Management has selected Citadel Associates’ CADIS as its data management platform. F&C is among a number of investment managers to take CADIS in recent months, with others including AMVESCAP, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (Reference Data Review, November 2006) and Schroders plc (Reference Data Review, February 2006).