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Does the World of Valuations Need Common Data Formats?

The need for data standardisation is well understood in many areas of reference data (albeit poorly implemented or non-existent in actuality – concept rather than reality being the operative word), but the world of valuations data has largely remained untouched by standardisation initiatives to harmonise vendor formats. Guy Sears, director of Wholesale at the Investment…

SmartStream Planning to Add Entity, Corporate Actions and Settlement Instruction Data to DClear in the Future

There may be some debate about SmartStream’s future ownership at the moment, but the vendor is not about to let that hold back the development plans for its reference data utility solution DClear, according to David Penney, executive vice president of strategy and product development at the vendor. SmartStream is currently working on adding more…

PolarLake Announce World’s First Semantic Web-based Reference Data Management Platform

PolarLake has announced the availability of the world’s first reference data management platform based on semantic web technologies. The platform enables the acquisition, management and distribution of vendor and internally sourced reference data. Already being used by a number of tier 1 financial services firms, the platform enables, data loading 11x faster, queries 17x faster…

Paladyne Releases Latest Version of its Reference Data Management Suite

Paladyne Systems, a provider of next generation investment management solutions, today announced the release of Paladyne Security Master 7.0 and Paladyne Price Master 7.0, the major components of Paladyne’s reference data management suite. This release introduces many new product features and extends many areas of existing functionality. Today, Paladyne’s reference data management products are used…

Fidelity ActionsXchange Plans Subscription-based Solution, Notifications and Response Also on the Radar, Says Pollard

Fidelity ActionsXchange has recently upgraded its ActionService platform via the addition of an announcement offering to capture corporate actions data closer to the issuer source and this will act as the foundation for the development of the vendor’s planned subscription-based solution, says Laura Pollard, executive vice president and head of Fidelity ActionsXchange. The vendor is…

Xenomorph CEO Brian Sentance Spearheads North American Expansion

Xenomorph, the leading analytics and data management solution provider to global financial markets, has today announced that founder director and CEO Brian Sentance has moved to New York to spearhead the company’s North American growth and further boost its presence in the market. The company, which first opened a sales and support operation in North…

FRSGlobal Hires Founder of STB Systems and Makes Further Hires in Asia Pacific and Japan

FRSGlobal, part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, the industry-recognised leader in content-rich solutions for unified global regulatory reporting and risk management, today announced that it has appointed Michael Thomas as Head of Business Development and Operations for North Asia. FRSGlobal has also made a number of additional new hires in the region to boost its…

Euroclear’s de Pauw Talks up Corporate Actions Standards, T2S’ Ongoing Impact

International central securities depository (ICSD) Euroclear has been spending a lot of time recently consulting with its user groups about market best practices and standards and how it can improve its servicing of the corporate actions space, according to Edwin de Pauw, director of product management at the ICSD and CSD. This is only natural…

Fidelity ActionsXchange Captures Corporate Actions Faster/Closer to Source

Fidelity ActionsXchange, a Fidelity Investments company and leading provider of global corporate actions and related security events, today introduced an enhanced version of its ActionService platform, which automates and customizes the delivery of corporate actions, such as stock splits and corporate restructurings, on more than 2.5 million securities to some of the world’s largest financial…

CECA Extends Use of SunGard’s FastVal Analytics for Valuing Complex Derivatives

Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros (CECA), the National Association of Spanish Savings Banks, is expanding its use of SunGard’s FastVal Analytics, a comprehensive suite of derivatives pricing models used by international financial institutions for derivatives pricing and structuring, risk management, model validation and benchmarking. The extended use of FastVal will help the association’s financial…