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EDI Tracked Over 5 Million Corporate Actions in 2009
Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of corporate actions and reference data, announced today that its corporate actions data team had created over 5 million corporate actions records in 2009 which is an astonishing volume of 20,800 records a day. EDI has been providing global corporate actions on equities through its Worldwide Corporate Actions for…
Thomson Reuters to Offer Securities Class Action Claims Filing Solution through PORTIA
Thomson Reuters today announced that it will offer securities class action claims filing capabilities as part of its enterprise-wide investment accounting system. The solution will be delivered in collaboration with Global Claims Filing Limited (GCF), a provider of securities class action data, research and claims filing services. Thomson Reuters PORTIA provides comprehensive investment accounting management…
SuperDerivatives Boosts Global Strategic Sales Group
SuperDerivatives (SD), the derivatives benchmark, has strengthened its global strategic sales team with the appointment of financial systems and derivatives expert David Collins. Collins joins SD as European head of strategic sales, reporting to Zohar Hod, vice president of strategic sales and business development, and will draw on his extensive expertise in the implementation of…
Pricing Partners Opens New Office in Singapore
Pricing Partners announced today the opening of its new regional office in Singapore to provide global distribution of its products and services suite across Asia and respond the requirements in independent revaluation. After already signing a distribution agreement in Hong Kong, Pricing Partners continues to more effectively provide permanent local support to its Asian client…
Korea Bond Pricing to Market Interactive Data’s Bond Evaluations
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business has signed an agreement with Korea Bond Pricing (KBP), an agency appointed by the Korean government to provide valuations for fixed income and derivative instruments to the Korean market. KBP will provide local…
CetrelSecurities and Aim Software Extend Partnership to Delivery of Cleansed Reference Data
Last year, data management solution provider Aim Software signed a partnership with Luxembourg-based, application service provider (ASP) specialist CetrelSecurities, which the vendors have now extended to the provision of cleansed reference data. The vendors are now working together to provide the Luxembourg market with an ASP platform based on the Gain data management platform, says…
SimCorp Proves Readiness to Process Swift ISO 20022 MX Messages
Swift and SimCorp have together successfully completed a proof of concept, which demonstrates that SimCorp Dimension, SimCorp’s solution for investment management businesses, can accept, process and transmit Swift ISO 20022 MX messages. MX messages are increasingly used in the securities industry, with adoption extending beyond Europe to Asia and the US. MX messages offer more…
London Stock Exchange Announces Partnership with FactSet to Deliver Reference Data through UnaVista
The London Stock Exchange announced today that it has commenced a joint venture with FactSet Research Systems. The partnership means that the Exchange will deliver FactSet’s reference data via UnaVista, a web-based platform that provides validation, matching and reconciliation solutions. Firms will now be able to receive FactSet’s issue-to-issuer linkage data and parent-subsidiary relationship data…
BNY Mellon’s Richmond Talks up Recent Investment in Valuations Capabilities and Importance of Data Centralisation
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has invested in its client and regulatory reporting systems as a result of valuation and regulatory changes such as FAS 157 and FAS 132R-1, explains Chris Richmond, managing director of global product accounting for the fund administrator, to Reference Data Review. This has involved a significant investment in automating the upload of…
CME Group Opts for Fitch Solutions and CMA Pricing Solutions for Clearing Operations
As part of its endeavour to establish itself as a clearing counterparty (CCP) in the OTC derivatives market, CME Group has this month selected two pricing solutions to support its CCP’s credit default swap (CDS) pricing and intraday risk management services: CMA’s DataVision and Fitch Solutions’ CDS Pricing Service. Anna Mazzone, vice president of product…