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Citadel Rolls-Out CADIS Version 5, With Structured Products Focus

Citadel Associates, provider of data management solutions to investment managers, has begun the roll-out of version 5 of its CADIS system to clients. CADIS sits at the heart of Citadel’s Investment Solutions Layer proposition. Version 5 contains new functionality for managing data associated with complex derivatives and structured products, and to facilitate more rapid take-on…

Live Launch of ISO 20022 Proxy Voting Messages Set for December

Swift is gearing Swift is gearing up for the live launch of its ISO 20022-based proxy voting messages on the network. This follows a pilot of the new messages, which replace earlier ISO 15022-based messages and market practice for proxy voting (Reference Data Review, November 2006). Based on feedback from the pilot, Swift’s standards group…

Channel Capital Advisors Opts for Quantifi XL

Quantifi, provider of analytics and risk management solutions to the global credit markets, has sealed a deal with Channel Capital Advisors, creator of Europe’s first Credit Derivative Product Company, for its tool for pricing and analysing structured credit products. “Quantifi’s proven track record and recognised market experience were important factors in our selection process. We…

Ness Adds Corporate Actions Functionality to Financial Data Enterprise Solution

Ness Technologies has unveiled an enhanced version of its enterprise data management platform, Financial Data Enterprise (FDE), developed by Ness Innovative Business Services (Ness IBS). The new version, FDE 4.5, includes features such as processing of corporate actions, dynamic creation and set-up of instruments and asset classes, enhanced data quality management and streamlined workflows for…

Downstream Data Distribution a Rich Seam of Opportunity for Vendors, Aite Analyst Says

In its new report, Managing the Rapids of Downstream Data Connectivity, analyst Aite Group predicts spending on downstream connectivity around enterprise data management projects in Europe and the US will exceed $2.5 billion in 2008. The report also finds that EDM projects typically mature an average of three years before firms really start to tackle…

Merger of SWX Group, SIS Group, Telekurs Group Unanimously Approved

The owners of the SWX Group, SIS Group and Telekurs Group have unanimously approved the merger of the three companies (Reference Data Review, May 2007). Within the framework of the planned transaction, the business activities of the Swiss financial market infrastructure providers will be combined under the roof of a strategic holding entity. The objective…

Every cloud…

As the “credit crunch” blame game plays itself out, some hefty criticism is being meted out to various quarters of the industry, not least the regulators and the ratings agencies for their alleged failure to act sooner to stem the tide of fall-out from the sub-prime crisis in the US. A lot of people are…

Swift Promises Controlled Migration To ISO 20022 CA Messages

ISO 20022 versions of the Swift messages that have been the foundation for much of the industry’s progress in automating corporate actions are to be made available by the end of Q4 2009 at the latest, under plans recently formulated by the co-operative. There will be a period of co-existence of ISO 20022 and the…

Evaluations Expert Rieger Slips Through Interactive Data’s Fingers

Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations’ James “JR” Rieger will not, as first announced, be joining Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data as vice president of evaluated services. Interactive Data was forced to issue a statement contradicting its earlier announcement when Rieger informed them he was pursuing another opportunity.

DPC DATA Adds New Location in Philippines for Securities-Related Data Outsourcing

DPC DATA has launched a new facility in metropolitan Manila to support growth in its data outsourcing business. A vendor of securities data, DPC DATA also provides offshore data management services. The new location brings greater capacity for data processing, strategic knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) and custom IT development, it reckons. The new location is…