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XSP and City Networks Partner for Corporate Actions and Reconciliations Solution
City Networks has signed a partnership agreement with XSP to offer an integrated corporate actions, reconciliation and exception management solution. Under the new agreement, both City Networks and XSP will provide an integrated corporate actions and reconciliation solution to the financial market. The offering combines City Networks’ Proactive range of exception management, business process management…
Interactive Data to Acquire Italian Reference Data Provider for €19m
Interactive Data Corporation has agreed to acquire Italian reference data provider Kler’s Financial Data Service for a purchase price of €19.0 million (approximately US$29.5 million) in cash, as part of its plans to increase its presence in continental Europe. The transaction is expected to be completed early in the third quarter of 2008, contingent upon…
S&P and SuperDerivatives Partner to Create Largest Valuations Portal
Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations, a global provider of independent securities evaluations and derivatives specialist SuperDerivatives have established a sales and marketing alliance to target the fixed income securities and OTC and exchange-traded derivatives market. The resulting combined offering represents the largest independent valuation portal in terms of both geographic and asset class coverage. The…
A-Team Report: Complex Instruments Demand Overhaul of Data Management by Buy Side
Following last month’s webinar on derivatives and data management, A-Team Group and EDM vendor GoldenSource have released a report on the specific challenges faced by global reference data managers in buy side firms, with a particular focus on the impact of OTC derivatives. The report involved discussions with a sample of senior individuals directly involved…
Consistency in Valuations is Vital for Dealing with Derivatives, Says Lepus and Asset Control
Accurate documentation surrounding valuations is growing in importance in the area of complex derivatives, according to a recent panel discussion held by Lepus Consulting and sponsored by Asset Control. The panel, which included representatives from a number of Wall Street banks and US mutual funds such as TIAA-CREF, agreed that knowing the ultimate parent for…
GoldenSource Promotes Version 8 of its EDM Suite as More Tailored Solution For Managing Risk
GoldenSource has released version 8 of its EDM platform, which the vendor says offers a more tailored approach for clients and advanced functionality for managing business risk, particularly in high risk areas such as corporate actions, pricing and data quality. “The new version is based on user group feedback and is set to tackle specific…
Interactive Data Makes Pricing Data Available Through ValueLink’s PriceValidation, Adds Valuations for ETNs
Interactive Data Corporation had a busy Sifma with regards to its pricing and valuations business lines, as well as signing a deal with ValueLink to make data from its Pricing and Reference Data business available through ValueLink’s PriceValidation service, the vendor also announced that it will now deliver indicative intraday valuations for exchange traded notes…
Interactive Data Introduces Earlier Delivery Time for Global Reference Data
Interactive Data Corporation now delivers start of day reference data for North American equities at 1am EST for its Pricing and Reference Data business. This is seven hours earlier than previously available and is in advance of the opening of trading in Europe. Marty Williams, vice president of reference data product development at Interactive Data…
Interactive Data Makes Pricing Data Available Through ValueLink’s PriceValidation Service
Interactive Data Corporation(IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, is making data from its Pricing and Reference Data business available through ValueLink’s PriceValidation service, the company is announcing on booth # 1405. Through PriceValidation, ValueLink acts as a service facilitator taking raw data from customers’ chosen data vendors and subjecting…
Interactive Data Delivers Indicative Valuations for Exchange Traded Notes and Values for Market Indices
Interactive Data Corporation (booth # 1405) a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, today announced that it can now deliver indicative intra-day valuations for exchange traded notes (ETNs) and values for market indices. Interactive Data’s Basket Calculation ServiceSM, which also offers intra-day indicative optimized portfolio values (IOPVs) for equity and fixed income…