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Market and Reference Data Converge: A United Front for Data Management

A new industry briefing paper prepared by A-Team Group for GoldenSource looks at the inevitable convergence of market and reference data. There has been, to date, a real disconnect between the management of market data in all its forms and reference data used in post-trade support functions. But this is changing as banks scramble to…

XSP Increases Performance in XSP v5 Corporate Actions Platform by Up to 8,500%

XSP, a leading global provider of Corporate Actions software, announced today new benchmark performance figures for its already-powerful XSP v5 Corporate Actions platform with gains as high as 8,500% in its Data Management & Scrubbing module; over 2,500% in its Notifications component and a 3,200% increase in processing lottery events. These statistics further demonstrate the…

Interactive Data Teams up with Pluris to Provide Daily Independent Valuations for Municipal Auction Rate Securities

Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business now offers clients daily valuations for Municipal Auction Rate Securities (ARS) including Student Loan Auction Rate Securities (SLARS), from Pluris Valuation Advisors LLC, a provider of market-based valuations of illiquid securities. “Interactive…

SmartStream Launches New Version of TLM Corporate Actions, Adds Solution to Common Platform

Back office processing solution vendor SmartStream Technologies has upgraded its Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) Corporate Actions solution in order to realise cost savings and efficiencies by bringing it onto a common platform with the rest of its offerings. Paul Phillips, business development consultant at the vendor, explains to Reference Data Review that the upgrade has…

DTCC, SWIFT and XBRL US Launch U.S. Stakeholder Group as Part of Issuer to Investor: Corporate Actions Initiative

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), SWIFT and XBRL US announced today the creation of a Stakeholder Group as a part of its Issuer to Investor: Corporate Actions initiative, which was launched in May 2009, to improve the processing of corporate actions data in the U.S. Composed of key players from the industry, the…

ITG Selects Asset Control’s AC Plus Data Management Platform to Support Asset Growth Initiatives

Specialized agency brokerage and financial technology firm Investment Technology Group has selected Asset Control’s AC Plus data management platform to provide ITG with global, multi-asset instrument data in support of the firm’s growth initiatives. AC Plus will provide ITG with a centralized, scalable reference data and pricing architecture that meets ITG’s time-to-market requirements and supports…

XSP Now Offers Corporate Actions Data from the Australian Securities Exchange via XSP v5 Platform

XSP, the leading global provider of Corporate Actions processing software, announced today that it is working with the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to take delivery and process its ReferencePoint™ Corporate Actions data product through the XSP™ v5 platform. The XSP v5 platform is a state-of-the-art solution developed to automate each step of the global Corporate…

Erste Group Appoints CMA DataVision for CDS Valuations, Risk Management and Trading Support

CMA, the credit information specialist, today announced that Erste Group Bank AG, one of Central & Eastern Europe’s largest financial services groups, has selected CMA DataVision to provide independent CDS price verification for use across their Valuations, Risk and Trading departments. Harald Müller, Head of Structuring & Credit Markets at Erste Group, commented “We looked…

GlobeOp Aims to Provide More Transparency Around OTC Derivative Valuations

As part of its ongoing push in the OTC derivatives valuations space, GlobeOp Financial Services has added on demand access to valuation and reconciliation processing data via its integrated OTC derivatives processing platform, GoOTC. According to the vendor, its fund manager clients can gain increased transparency across OTC trade lifecycles and can demonstrate independent portfolio…

Should the ECB be Using Existing Data Channels and Standards for a Reference Data Utility?

Ahead of the panel discussion on the subject at next week’s Sibos conference in Hong Kong, the European Central Bank’s (ECB) proposals have provoked yet more feedback from Reference Data Review readers. Most agree that starting from scratch in building such a utility would be a difficult endeavour and that the central bank should instead…