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Andrew’s Blog – The Hard Slog That Is Valuations
Great session on transparency in OTC securities at Andaz this week at a breakfast hosted by Interactive Data and featuring a practitioner panel moderated by our own Angela Wilbraham. It’s always refreshing to hear a frank exchange of views, and the panel – including BNP Paribas’ Peter Nowell and HSBC’s Chris Johnson – gave an…
Patrick Williamon Joins XSP as Quality Assurance Manager
XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions solutions, today announced that Patrick Williamon has joined the Company as a Quality Assurance Manager. This appointment has been further supported by new hires within its Quality Assurance and Development teams. Williamon joins XSP as the Quality Assurance Manager, responsible for running the day-to-day operation of…
Markit Boosts Index Business Scalability with XSP CA Platform Upgrade
Markit’s renewal and extension of its corporate actions processing platform deal with XSP will allow it to expand its operations to serve more customers and make more calculations while maintaining accuracy and timeliness. As part of the renewal, Markit has added XSP’s Headline Indices functionality to the XSP v5 platform it operates in-house. According to…
And the Winner Is….
It’s that time of the year again. No, not that time. It’s time for A-Team’s Valuations in European Buy-Side Institutions Performance Benchmarking survey! Now in its second year, our benchmarking survey is the industry’s opportunity to have its say on the performance of its suppliers. We recently published the results of the North American version…
MoneyMate’s Smyth Elaborates Further on the M&G Investments’ Implementation
M&G Investments first looked at establishing a new product master data solution for its 50-odd retail funds back in the summer of 2009 and, after a detailed and in-depth couple of years of background research and planning, it has finally rolled out the first phase of buy side data management specialist vendor MoneyMate’s DataManager solution….
HSBC’s Johnson Highlights the Deep Data Content Requirements of Solvency II
Although Solvency II may at first appear to be an insurance only focused regulation, the asset management and asset servicing communities are having to prepare for some fairly onerous deep data requirements coming their way by way of their insurance clients, warned Chris Johnson, head of product management for market data services at HSBC Securities…
Markit Signs Multi-Year Contract Renewal and Service Expansion with XSP to Streamline Corporate Actions Processing
XSP, the global leader in end-to-end Corporate Actions automation, announced today that Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, has signed up for XSP’s new Headline Indices functionality. Markit uses the XSP v5 platform to supply buy- and sell-side firms with daily calculations for its various index services. The addition of XSP’s Headline Indices…
SNR Denton Helps First Data Obtain Approval from European Regulators for its Binding Corporate Rules for Data Privacy
SNR Denton has successfully helped First Data Corporation, a global leader in electronic commerce and payment processing, obtain approval from European Data Protection regulators for its Binding Corporate Rules for data privacy (BCRs). Today, the Information Commissioner’s Office granted authorisation of First Data’s BCRs, making it the eleventh company to obtain such authorization. First Data…
Virginie’s Blog – In Need of the Data Management Avengers?
Another interesting topic from last week’s FIMA conference was the discussion about how to ensure the profile of the data management function is sufficiently recognised as important, both within financial institutions – by the board and the business users downstream – and within the industry at large. The data management challenge may have been thrown…
PolarLake Announce Solution Suite for Financial and Reference Data
Today PolarLake announce the availability of the PolarLake Solution Suite. The PolarLake Solution Suite, which is the result of numerous successful client implementations and joint developments, offers four out of the box solutions built on top of the PolarLake Data Management Platform. The PolarLake Solution Suite includes: Ø PolarLake Price Processing Solution: Including an out…