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Avox’s Price and DTCC’s Kirby Explain Integration Plans and Utility Potential
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) acquisition of Avox has given the UK-based counterparty and entity data vendor the ownership structure it has long needed to establish itself as an industry utility, according to CEO Ken Price. As noted by Reference Data Review, the appeal for DTCC was in adding the final piece of…
DTCC Acquires Avox Limited
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced today that it has acquired the outstanding shares of Avox Limited, a reference data business located in the UK. Avox Limited’s primary business is cleansing and maintaining high quality reference information on legal entities and counterparties needed by financial services to support a variety of operational, risk…
DTCC’s Avox Acquisition Boosts its Overall Utility Approach to the Market
Given its ambitions to become an all round data utility provider for the financial services markets, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) acquisition of UK-based counterparty and entity data vendor Avox this week comes as no surprise. DTCC has been gradually positioning itself as a utility provider, rather than your common or garden vendor,…
Interactive Data’s OTC Derivatives Valuations Service Now Used By Wide Range Of Financial Institutions
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its valuations service for complex OTC derivatives and structured products, offered in conjunction with Prism Valuation, is now being used by more than 25 major international financial institutions. A wide range of institutional clients around the globe, including custodians,…
Thomson Reuters is Joining its Enterprise Platform up with its Data Content, Rationalising Reference Data onto DataScope
Following the launch of its Enterprise platform earlier this year, data giant Thomson Reuters is now focusing its energies on joining the platform up with its various data content sets. The vendor is also working on developing its flagship DataScope solution as the overall platform for its various data offerings on both the Thomson and…
SunGard Enhances IntelliMatch Solution Suite
SunGard has enhanced its IntelliMatch solution suite to help tier one financial institutions streamline their enterprise-wide processes for reconciliation, exception management, financial governance and archiving. The enhancements include new intelligent workspaces, a new financial governance component and performance improvements. This latest release will help financial institutions increase operational efficiency, reduce risk and improve scalability and…
Sophis Appoints Al-Chaer to Lead World Class Training Programme
Sophis, a provider of cross asset, front to back portfolio and risk management solutions, today announced that it has appointed Jihad Al-Chaer to head up its Sophis Institute training programme. Sophis Institute will be formally launched in the second half of 2010 and will act as a centre of excellence for training across the Sophis…
DST Global Solutions Launches OTC Lifecycle Manager to Enhance Control of OTC Derivatives
In response to new market conditions and the changing regulatory landscape, challenges of operational risk and proliferation of OTC contracts faced by its clients, DST Global Solutions Investment Management Solutions (IMS) business has announced the launch of OTC Lifecycle Manager. The solution is focussed on facilitating the critical transition from deal negotiation to contract capture…
Interactive Data Sponsors First In-Depth Training Course For FISD Professional Certification
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that it will be sponsoring the first comprehensive training course for candidates preparing for the FISD Professional Certification. The three-day course, which aims to consolidate the knowledge base of the participants, will be held at Interactive Data’s offices in London…
Half of Asset Manager Respondents to Citi Survey Plan to Outsource Valuation Function, 28% to Outsource Risk Management
Back and middle office functions such as evaluated pricing for illiquid instruments, data management, corporate actions processing and risk management are all on the radar for potential outsourcing by asset managers over the next three years, according to a recent survey by Citi. The survey, which involved 237 asset managers from 29 countries, indicates that…