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Corero Wins New Deal For Radica CAPS Corporate Actions System
Corero, the former Mondas, has received a number of orders totalling more than £270,000 from an undisclosed major investment bank. They include a licence for a module of Radica CAPS, which forms part of a delayed previously announced order, as well as associated professional services and maintenance over the next four years. It will be…
Barclays Global Investors, BBH Exchange FpML Messages over Swiftnet
Barclays Global Investors and Brown Brothers Harriman have become the first asset manager and custodian to exchange FpML (Financial products Markup Language) based contract notifications over Swiftnet. Soon after, State Street, on behalf of PIMCO and other buy-side customers, began testing FpML communication with Bank of New York, Mellon Bank, Northern Trust and State Street…
Bloomberg Adds Pricing, Risk Data from NumeriX
Bloomberg has made NumeriX’s pricing and risk analytics available to users of its Bloomberg Professional service, via a select set of Bloomberg Professional calculators. In collaboration with Bloomberg, NumeriX has developed a fully integrated and enhanced version of NumeriX 6, its flagship pricing and structuring application, dubbed the NumeriX Bloomberg Edition. The Bloomberg version features…
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…
Buzzelli to Depart Mellon to Join Reuters
Brian Buzzelli, who has led Mellon Financial’s foray into provision and management of reference data as part of its securities administration services offerings, is leaving the custody bank to join Reuters’ enterprise data group as part of the DataScope team. Further details weren’t available at press time.
Markit Completes Integration Of ABSReports Data Services
Following its acquisition of deal reporting service ABSReports at the beginning of the year (Reference Data Review, January 2007), Markit, provider of data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing, has launched what it says is the first integrated pricing and performance monitoring service for the European asset-backed securities (ABS) market in a move it…
Reuters’ New JRisk On Demand Offering Packages Broad Coverage of Evaluations, Terms and Conditions
Reuters’ new JRisk On Demand, a tailored risk management solution for hedge funds developed by the Applied Networks unit that it acquired last year, not only delivers real-time risk management tools directly to individual managers’ desktops, but aims to provide “enormous” cost benefits to clients through access to Reuters reference and terms and conditions data. …
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,…
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…
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…