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Asset Control Upgrades Clients To New Version of TAPMaster
Asset Control has unveiled the third full feature release of TAPMaster, introducing fundamental new functions and offering increased performance, scalability and the security capabilities of the latest Microsoft technology. TAPMaster, which recently came into the fold of Asset Control’s offerings following its acquisition of TAP Solutions (Reference Data Review, April 2007), is an end-to-end Microsoft…
Eagle Lands Legacy Replacement Deal at Boutique Firm Trilogy
US-based Trilogy Global Advisors, a boutique emerging markets equities fund manager, is implementing technology from Eagle Investment Systems to help manage its portfolio. The Eagle suite of products will enable Trilogy to retire its legacy accounting system. According to John Lehner, president of Eagle Investment Systems, there are a couple of reasons for Trilogy’s decision…
EDM Council Takes Baby Steps Towards Ontology and Metrics
The EDM Council has recently taken steps towards achieving two key requirements for industry-wide implementation of enterprise data management – a standardised data ontology and data quality metrics. Members of the EDM Council are participating in a working group formed by the DTCC to define and standardise the data terms and definitions included in its…
Interactive Data Leverages Pricing, Reference Data for MiFID Offer
Interactive Data Corp is leveraging the assets of its Pricing and Reference Data unit, as well as those of its Real-Time Services group, to offer a range of services aimed at helping clients meet their obligations under the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). Interactive Data believes its real-time and reference data services units…
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SmartCo, a French software house, and Telekurs Financial have integrated Telekurs’ Valordata Feed (VDF) data flow into SmartCo’s Smart Financial Data Hub. Smart Financial Data Hub is designed to enable centralised data management, data quality control, access authorisation, real-time data analysis and the management of multi-contributor functionality. “We are always interested in interfacing our data…
CMA Rolls Out Full Term Structures for CMA DataVision
CMA has enhanced CMA DataVision, its same-day consensus-based price verification data service for CDS, indices and tranches. Working with several clients and a team of industry experts, CMA says it has developed a multi-step modelling process to enable it to derive price points and generate a full-term structure with a high degree of accuracy. Using…
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.
NAB Custodian Services Selects Markit Complex Derivatives Valuations…
NAB Custodian Services (NCS), a securities services provider in Australia, has appointed Markit provider of complex OTC derivatives valuations. Markit will provide NCS with an independent, post-trade calculation of the gross asset value of a portfolio of complex OTC derivative trades. Valuations will be provided on a daily basis for vanilla and exotic instruments, and…
Delta Lloyd Selects CMA For Price Verification
Delta Lloyd Asset Management, a Dutch fund manager, has selected CMA’s price verification data service, CMA DataVision. Arnold Gast, head of credit for Delta Lloyd Asset Management, says: “We selected CMA DataVision because it provides a timely, comprehensive, true market view. We also like CMA’s buy side aggregation model focus on gathering average pricing views…
CUSIP Service Bureau Launches CUSIP-Based ISIN Look-up Service
The CUSIP Service Bureau (CSB) has launched a web-based CSB-ISIN Look-up Service, which provides unique CUSIP-based International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) identifiers for more than 3.6 million securities and their issuers. This new web-based capability makes it easier for institutions to identify securities issued by the CSB and efficiently trade, settle and clear securities by…