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SmartStream Announces Partnership with Longtop to Distribute TLM Solutions Across China
SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist, today announced that it has formed a new partnership with Longtop, a software development and solutions provider targeting the financial services industry in China. Longtop will integrate SmartStream’s suite of Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) solutions to complement its existing technologies and services. Longtop’s expertise across the financial…
US SEC Charges Broker-Dealer Pinnacle Capital Markets with AML Related Customer Data Management Failings
In a move that mirrors some of the actions being taken across the pond with regards to customer data infractions, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged US-based broker-dealer Pinnacle Capital Markets with failing to comply with a key piece of anti-money laundering (AML) legislation and forced it to pay out a US$25,000 fine….
IPUG Ramps up Lobbying Activities, Targets Bloomberg as First on a Long List of Vendors Under the Spotlight
The Information Providers User Group’s (IPUG) last annual general meeting saw the confirmation of the main deliverables for the group over the next year, including the highlighting of a number of vendor solutions to come under the group’s scrutiny. One of IPUG’s key activities of late has been the lobbying of the vendor community and…
Issuer Community to Remain a Sticking Point for XBRL in Corporate Actions, Says SmartStream’s Middendorp
The issuer community is likely to remain a sticking point for the Swift, XBRL US and Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) initiative to introduce XBRL data tagging to issuer documents for the foreseeable future, according to Kees Middendorp, senior consultant for corporate actions at solution vendor SmartStream Technologies. Although the introduction of XBRL to…
GFI Group Announces Release of FENICS Exotics
GFI Group has announced the release of FENICS Exotics, a powerful collection of models used to price all major exotic FX instruments. FENICS Exotics pricing models are carefully tailored to work the way a market practitioner would expect to use them in the FX markets. The component provides accurate prices and tradable bid/ask spreads that…
EDM Council Readies Industry Benchmarking Survey, Continues Semantics Repository Development
The EDM Council has been working in partnership with IT consultancy firm Headstrong to put together a global data management benchmarking survey, aimed at providing comparable metrics on the data management projects going on across the industry. The survey involved 65 firms and will be discussed at an upcoming launch event in New York in…
Information Mosaic’s Bermingham on Swift’s 2015 Strategy, Standards and a Utility Future
Reference Data Review catches up with Gerard Bermingham, vice president of business strategy for the Americas at vendor Information Mosaic, about his views on Swift’s new 2015 strategy and how the industry network operator should figure in the standards development process and the reference data industry of the future. How well do you think the goals…
Avox’s Price Talks up Wiki-data Progress, Market Opportunities in the Ref Data Space
The development of Avox’s online look-up tool for entity data, which it dubbed Wiki-data, is one of the major developments for the vendor over the last year, according to CEO Ken Price. He first elaborated on the idea in detail at last year’s FIMA in London and indicates that the tool has come on leaps…
Broadridge Supports International Expansion with New Appointments
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced new appointments and a relocation in line with both its growing international strategy and its increased presence in the Asia Pacific region. Julie Kerr has joined Broadridge in the role of senior sales executive, responsible for sales in Hong Kong and Singapore. Shehas over 19 years’ experience in sales and…
Information Mosaic is Planning Launch of New Asset Surveillance Solution Later This Year, Says Singh
Post-trade solution vendor Information Mosaic is planning to launch a new asset surveillance solution later this year, in addition to promoting its upgraded client front end for its flagship corporate actions solution. Manmohan Singh, head of product leadership at the vendor and country head of its Indian operations, who joined the vendor back in October…