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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…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Sifma Revisited
Last week I reported on how searing temperatures threatened to make the Sifma technology show in New York something of an assault course. In the end, though, dwindling punter numbers meant that the air-con actually performed as it’s supposed to, and we all remained cool – those of us who were already cool, that is…
Deutsche Bank Demonstrates Benefits of Data Visualisation
Visualisation techniques are essential to gaining insight into data, processes and systems, and could also answer the question of whether high frequency trading is good or bad for financial markets, said Kerr Hatrick, head of Deutsche Bank’s Quantitative Products One team for Europe and Asia at MathWorks’ Matlab Computational Finance Conference in London this week….
Brown Brothers Harriman Works with DTCC to Reduce Risk in Corporate Actions
Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) has gone live with DTCC’s standards-based corporate actions real-time messaging and expects the solution to provide both operational efficiencies and reduced operational risk. The solution is part of a multi-year corporate actions reengineering project at DTCC that will replace 60 legacy systems by 2015 with a single platform that is compliant…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: It’s Hot in New York
The New York Hilton is not best known for its air conditioning, and with temperatures threatening to hit 97 degrees Fahrenheit the second day of the Sifma Tech leaders conference promises to be challenging. It’s a busy and hot New York week. We kicked it off with some client meetings Monday, followed by the ubiquitous…
Netik’s Rebrand to CoreOne Underscores Repurposing of Data Management Assets
Netik, the data management company acquired by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group in 2008, has rebranded as CoreOne Technologies to reflect its new lease of life as a data creation, processing and distribution company with products based on Netik technologies and repurposed proprietary capital markets platforms. The brand change has been led by CoreOne…