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Corporate Boards Vulnerable to Hacking and Information Theft, Says Thomson Reuters Survey
Most major corporations surveyed have significant security gaps that leave sensitive board-level information open to information theft and hacking. Those are among the findings of a new survey of board members of UK and global corporations conducted by Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk & Compliance. The findings are particularly noteworthy in light of recent news stories…
Interactive Data Enhances International Content for Fund Administrators and Custodians by Further Enhancing Alliance with Bond Pricing Agency Malaysia
Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of independent pricing and valuation services, today announced that it has expanded its agreement with Bond Pricing Agency Malaysia Sdn Bhd (BPA Malaysia), a leading national bond pricing agency. Interactive Data is now distributing evaluated pricing for long-term Malaysian fixed income assets from BPA Malaysia. Demand for this content…
Legacy Asset Management Company (LAMCO) Goes Live With Calypso as Central Valuation Solution
Calypso Technology, a global application software provider of an integrated trading, risk and processing platform to financial institutions and corporate treasuries, announced today that Legacy Asset Management Company (LAMCO), a fully owned subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holding Inc., has gone into production with the Calypso system as its core derivatives platform for valuation and risk….
Thomson Reuters Grows Legal Entity Data Solution to Address Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance
Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of an expanded legal entity data solution, which will be available for retrieval via Thomson Reuters DataScope Select and Thomson Reuters DataScope Onsite. This offering significantly expands the firm’s legal entity content capability, which is approaching coverage of 1 million entities across nearly 250 markets and 50 languages. Thomson…
SWIFT Announces 16% Rebate on 2011 Messaging
SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,700 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, announced today a rebate of 16 percent on 2011 messaging usage. The new rebate will return approximately EUR 52 million to SWIFT users and will be paid in January 2012. This rebate comes in addition to a 20 percent…
XSP Unveils eTRAN+ Customizable User Interface for Web-Based Notification and Response Capture Processing
XSP, the global leader in automated end?to?end Corporate Actions solutions, today at Sibos unveiled eTRAN+, its latest innovation for Web?Based notification and response capture. This next?generation widget is built leveraging the XSP GO!™ framework to provide clients with a customizable user interface to manage Corporate Actions notification and response processing. Its predecessor, the eTRAN (Electronic…
Asset Control Launches Financial Data Collection Service to Optimize Sourcing Efficiency and Reduce Costs
Asset Control, provider of financial data management solutions and services, has enhanced its AC Plus data management platform by launching an on-demand instrument set-up module. The AC Plus Collection Service is a service-based solution that helps customers simplify and improve data accuracy in the complex new instrument set-up process. It also helps customers better align…
Swift’s Vandenreydt Elaborates on the Three Pillars of its Reference Data Strategy
Swift has broken its reference data strategy down into three main pillars: its response to the Sifma led, Office of Financial Research (OFR) sanctioned working group focused on developing a new legal entity identification (LEI) standard; its payments reference data efforts; and its (rather nebulous at the moment) securities reference data strategy. Fabian Vandenreydt, Swift’s…
XSP Enters Into Alliance with DTCC and Signs Certified Partner Agreement for Global Corporate Actions Validation Service
XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end corporate actions solutions, announced that it has signed a Certified Software Partner agreement with DTCC Solutions. XSP and DTCC have enjoyed a longstanding relationship offering their mutual clients solutions that reduce the risks and costs associated with this highly-complex process and this new DTCC certification program will ensure…
Leading Global Custodian Banks Think Custodians Should Be More Involved In The Settlement And Account Instruction Process, According To New Survey
Despite a heightened focus on risk management and increased levels of automation within custodian banks worldwide, the settlement and account instruction (SI) process still relies heavily on manual processes, introducing risks and costs into the trade lifecycle, according to research by Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency. The survey, conducted by Omgeo in July…