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Financial Tradeware Appoints CIG Business Partner for North America
Financial Tradeware has partnered with New York-based Computer Intelligence Group (CIG) to bring its solutions to the North American and Caribbean regions. Under the terms of the agreement CIG, an IT consulting and services company that also recently partnered with reference data specialist AIM Software (Reference Data Review, January 2007), will market, install and support…
Accenture Loses Data Outsourcing Leader Bill Cline to Acai Solutions
Bill Cline has left Accenture, where he was managing director, global capital markets industry for North America and Asia-Pacific, and had spearheaded Accenture’s managed reference data service proposition in conjunction with Asset Control. He is now global managing partner at New York City-based management consulting company Acai Solutions. Cline’s departure from Accenture follows the retirement…
The maxim of pragmatism
The great thing about standards is – as the old adage has it – there are so many of them to choose from. And yet, there never seem to be enough. Last month we charted the industry’s ongoing frustration at the lack of a standard international business entity identifier which, in the view of some,…
JJ Gets Down to “Nitty-Gritty” of “Grimy” Data Business
Reference data projects are “huge, scary and often not perceived as adding measurable value”. To avoid being derailed by the complexity and long payback time of such projects, firms should break the problem down into manageable chunks and accept that great value can be added to the business by addressing just part of the problem,…
DTCC Develops XML Format For Corporate Actions Data
DTCC is working to create a new XML based format for delivery of corporate actions announcement information via its Global Corporate Action Validation Service (GCA VS), scheduled for roll-out in early 2008. DTCC currently provides data in its own proprietary format and in ISO 15022. The inadequacy of the 15022 format for its purposes is…
Schroders Takes Citadel’s CADIS For Pricing and Analytics
Global asset manager Schroders plc is implementing Citadel Associates’ CADIS data management system for pricing and analytics. Schroders is the fourth investment manager to take CADIS in recent months, with others including AMVESCAP and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (Reference Data Review, November 2006). Robin Strong, Citadel’s head of sales and marketing for EMEA,…
Capco Re-Engineers Outsourcing Platform as SOA Draws on Opensource, Grid and Web Services
Capco has begun a project to re-engineer the technology infrastructure supporting its provision of managed reference data services, and plans to draw on opensource and grid technologies as well as Web Services, to improve integration with its clients’ operations. The provider’s aim is to improve automation and build in greater scalability to the platform, in…
Financial Tradeware Facilitates GlobeTax’s StatRate Via Swiftnet
Financial Tradeware and tax reclamation specialist GlobeTax have formed a partnership to provide GlobeTax’s StatRate, an automatic data feed which provides financial institutions with market by market statutory withholding tax rate data (Reference Data Review, September 2006), via Swiftnet FileAct. GlobeTax created its StatRate service based on Swiftnet FileAct to deliver daily file based tax…
DPC Data Supports Perfect Information’s US Business
Perfect Information and DPC Data have formed a partnership to provide enhanced support and services for Perfect Information customers in the US via DPC’s data-related outsourcing services, following a soft launch of its Perfect Search product. Perfect Information, provider of corporate data for investors tracking equity and bond information, as well as corporate updates, is…
The Dynamics of Change By Gert Raeves, vice president, business solutions at GoldenSource
Change is like the common cold – there is a lot of it about. The interesting question is not if we are in a period of change: everything is always changing, in the same way that everyone is always busy –the constancy of change is a particularly tired cliché of business life. The better question…