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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…
US SEC Passes Proxy Voting Reforms, New Data Requirements on Their Way in 60 Days
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has passed a reform this week that issues additional rights to “long term” shareholders, who own or have owned continually for three years and have at least 3% of the company’s voting stock, to be able to nominate candidates to the boards of the companies they own. As…
Pricing Partners Successfully Completed the Platform Test for ISV Solutions to Become Microsoft Certified Partner
Pricing Partners announced today that Price-it successfully completed the Microsoft ISV (independent software vendor) Solutions Platform Test. The platform test for ISV solutions is the breadth test that allows software vendors to measure their solution’s technical capabilities against a specific set of Microsoft technical quality standards. Pricing Partners adopts the latest Microsoft .NET technologies for…
SIX Group’s Information Biz is Down 3% Revenue on Previous Year’s First Half Figures
The revenue for the first half of this year for SIX Group’s financial information business, SIX Telekurs, is down 3% on the previous year’s figure for the same period. According to the vendor, the decline from CHF205.3 million in 2009 to CHF199.1 million this year was largely attributable to the negative effect of the euro…
Numerix Continues Expansion Across Asia Pacific; Opens South Korean Office
Numerix, a provider of cross asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management has opened a new regional office in Seoul, South Korea, becoming the first derivatives analytics company to provide local sales and quantitative support in the South Korean region. The new Seoul office symbolises the growth and importance of the derivatives markets in…
Societe Generale Securities Services Mandated by Santander Asset Management to Provide OTC Valuation and Collateral Management Services
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has been mandated by Santander Asset Management, the asset management division of the Santander Group, the 6th largest financial services group in the world by market capitalisation, to provide a range of asset servicing for its Luxembourg-domiciled funds which are administered and deposited with SGSS. SGSS has been selected for…
Ball is in Swift’s Court to Convince of the Benefits of the BIC as an LEI, Says SEB’s Strandberg
Christine Strandberg, global product manager at SEB Global Transaction Services, reckons Swift has a job to do to convince the market of the benefits of its Bank Identifier Code (BIC) as a legal entity identifier. However, she is confident that due to the experience of the industry network operator in the standards development process, Swift…
Tullett Prebon’s OTC Valuations Opens Sales and Client Service Offices in London and New York
Tullett Prebon today announces that OTC Valuations Ltd (OTC Val), its technology driven services firm providing independent price verification services to clients globally, has opened sales and client service offices in London and New York. The openings mark an immediate expansion of the business, following the recent acquisition of Vancouver based OTC Val by Tullett…
SEB’s Strandberg is Unsure About the Benefits of XBRL for Corporate Actions STP
Some in the market may be convinced of the benefits of XBRL for the entire corporate actions process (see our interview with BNY Mellon Asset Servicing’s Paul Bodart for example), but not everyone agrees that it is the key to increasing end to end straight through processing (STP) in the space. Christine Strandberg, global product…