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SmartStream’s DClear Utilities Launches On Demand Data Dictionary Portal
As part of its wider bid to take on the reference data utility space, SmartStream Technologies has this week launched an on demand portal for access to verified and cleansed exchange and data provider documentation. John Mason, CEO of DClear, explains to Reference Data Review that although the Data Dictionary will form an integral part of the…
Russell Investments And Interactive Data Introduce Fair Value Adjusted Index Information For Select Russell Global Indices
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business will provide its Fair Value Information Service (FVIS) for international equities to Russell Investments for use in providing fair value adjusted information on Russell’s global equity indices. This information is designed to help…
Mackie Research Capital Goes Live on SunGard’s Fame for Pricing Data and Analytics
Mackie Research Capital, one of Canada’s largest independent full service investment firms, has implemented SunGard’s Fame for pricing data and analytics to help support the firm’s investment, research and trading strategies and activities. Providing live data and desktop tools for analysing investment results and opportunities, Fame helps Mackie Research Capital view and analyse accurate, aggregate…
PolarLake has Netted Eight New Clients This Year, Launches Reference Data Policy Engine
Commensurate with the current trend towards an uptick in investment in data management solutions this year, PolarLake’s CEO John Randles indicates that eight new clients have signed on the dotted line so far in 2010. The vendor has also just launched its PolarLake Reference Data Policy Engine, which Randles says is aimed at affording end…
Interactive Data Provides Independent Evaluations for GNMA Reverse Mortgage-Backed Securities
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business is now providing daily independent evaluations for fixed-rate reverse mortgage-backed securities (HMBS) issued under the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) programme. This programme is designed to provide liquidity…
Edgar Online Announces New Chief Operations Officer
Edgar Online announced today that Diana Bourke will be joining the company. Bourke will assume the title of chief operations officer and will join the company full time on 5 April 2010. Prior to joining Edgar Online, Bourke was most recently president and chief executive officer of Inveshare, formerly known as Swingvote. Inveshare delivers shareholder…
Hyman Beck & Co. Selects GFI Fenics Professional
GFI Group announced today that Hyman Beck and Company, one of the world’s most diversified alternative investment managers, has licensed FENICS Professional for the pricing and risk management of its FX options business. The agreement includes FENICS Pricing, Analysis, and Structuring. James Lubin, Principal and COO of Hyman Beck said: “We are very pleased to…
Northern Trust’s Chapman Appointed as Member and Custodian Representative to SWIFT (UK) Ltd Board of Directors
Northern Trust announces today that Justin Chapman, global head of process management at Northern Trust, has been appointed to represent the securities community on the UK board of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT). Chapman, currently the custodian representative appointed to the board of 12 directors, is also the co-chairman of the SWIFT…
Pine River Capital Management Selects Quantifi to Support Credit Strategies
Quantifi, a provider of valuation models and risk management software for the global credit and interest rate markets, today announced that Pine River Capital Management, a leading alternative asset management firm in the relative value space, has selected Quantifi XL for pricing and analysis of global credit products. Pine River, which has offices in Minnetonka,…
Fortune 100 Financial Services Company Selects XSP v5 Corporate Actions Platform
XSP, a provider of corporate actions software, announced today that a leading investment manager, a Fortune 100 financial services company, has selected the XSP v5 platform to automate its corporate actions processing. With headquarters in New York, the client will implement most of the XSP processing modules including Data Management & Scrubbing, Notifications & Responses,…