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DNB Nord Is Early Adopter of IBM’s New InfoSphere Reference Data Application
IBM has added a ready-to-run application for reference data management to its InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) platform. The so-called InfoSphere MDM Reference Data Management Hub v10 has been beta tested by banks including DNB Nord in Europe and was released by IBM as an electronic upgrade last week. The application offers centralised reference data…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Live and Let Die
(With apologies to Paul McCartney and Ian Fleming) When you were young and your heart was an open book You used to say ‘live and let live’ (you know you did, etc.). But in this ever-changin’ world in which we’re livin’ Makes you give it a try: ‘Live and let die’ When I was young…
S&P Capital IQ Details Plans for Evaluated Pricing Post CMA Acquisition
S&P Capital IQ’s acquisition of Credit Market Analysis (CMA) from CME Group last week is bearing fruit, with some CMA technologies already integrated and used in S&P Capital IQ offerings such as its evaluated pricing service. As other services and technologies are integrated, CMA as a whole is expected to slot in alongside earlier acquisitions…
Aim Software Acquires ABI Informatic for Customer Base and Technology
Aim Software, vendor of the Gain reference data and risk management platform, has bought competitor ABI Informatic in a deal aimed primarily at acquiring its 25 European customers. Terms of the Jun 4 transaction – announced yesterday – which also gives Aim ABI’s Agio data management platform, weren’t disclosed. Vienna-based Aim’s CEO Martin Buchberger describes…
Eikon Reaches ‘Tipping Point’ as Thomson Reuters Halts New-Client Sales of 3000 Xtra
Thomson Reuters has halted sales of its 3000 Xtra premium desktop service to new clients, in a move seen as a vote of confidence in successor desktop product Eikon. As of July 31, Thomson Reuters’ sales teams will offer new clients Eikon as the sole choice of premium desktop, although existing 3000 Xtra clients will…
Cantor Fitzgerald Upgrades to XSPrisa SaaS Model for Corporate Actions
Cantor Fitzgerald has become the second customer to license XSP’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) XSPrisa solution for automated corporate actions processing. The first customer, an unnamed but large global firm based in New York, has been in production for three months following XSP’s introduction of XSPrisa this spring. Cantor Fitzgerald has been using the enterprise version of…
Stop Press: S&P Capital IQ Swoops on CMA for European Valuations Data
S&P Capital IQ has struck again, continuing its buying spree with the purchase of London-based Credit Market Analysis Ltd., the valuations data subsidiary of CME Group. The acquisition plugs a gap in S&P Capital IQ’s valuations coverage, which will now include CMA’s speciality areas of structured finance and over-the-counter derivatives pricing. S&P Capital IQ’s traditional…
DST Meets Customer Demand for Corporate Actions through Deal with XSP
DST Global Solutions has responded to customer demand for a corporate actions solution on its HiPortfolio investment accounting platform through an agreement with XSP that covers joint development of a HiPortfolio integrated corporate actions module that will be powered by XSP. Initially, the solution will be made available in Australia and New Zealand where DST…
Dion Integrates Numerix CrossAsset Analytics to Deliver Hosted OTC Pricing Service
Dion Global Solutions has partnered Numerix to move into OTC pricing, valuation and risk management with a hosted solution called dfferentia. The solution is the technology company’s first to be built from the ground up as a hosted solution and supports real-time pricing of foreign exchange and fixed income instruments with the promise of more…
Thomson Reuters Opens RICs to All for Trade Processing
Thomson Reuters is taking a step toward answering client calls for more open access to its Reuters Instrument Code (RIC) symbology. The company is making RICs available for use with non-real-time information in client and non-client financial institutions’ trade processing systems. Enterprise content chief Gerry Buggy, part of the team responsible for Thomson Reuters’ response…