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Emirates Bank Deploys Quantifi XL For Structured Credit Pricing
US analytics vendor Quantifi has signed up its first Dubai based client. Emirates Bank has taken Quantifi XL as a front office tool for pricing and analysing structured credit products. Quantifi XL is designed to provide access to pricing and risk analysis of credit products from within Excel, and is targeted at banks, hedge funds,…
Lewtan Technologies Signs DBRS to ABSNet
Credit rating agency Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS) is to use Lewtan Technologies’ ABSNet and ABSNet Cash Flows services to help strengthen its presence in the European structured finance market. “ABSNet Cash Flows gives us the ability to accurately model the asset cash flows and note payment rules, which allows us to test each tranche…
Xcitek Completes Swift Testing For Corporate Actions
Xcitek has successfully completed testing of ISO messages submitted by its flagship software, XSP, to Swift’s Corporate Actions Test and Certification Proof of Concept (POC) programme. In an effort to improve the quality of FIN Corporate Actions messages and overall STP, the Swift POC tested the validity of ISO messages submitted by participants to comply…
Financial Tradeware Appoints CIG Business Partner for North America
Financial Tradeware has partnered with New York-based Computer Intelligence Group (CIG) to bring its solutions to the North American and Caribbean regions. Under the terms of the agreement CIG, an IT consulting and services company that also recently partnered with reference data specialist AIM Software (Reference Data Review, January 2007), will market, install and support…
CB.Net Appoints Tim Boyce Chairman
Payments reference data specialist CB.Net has appointed Tim Boyce, formerly a non-executive director, chairman, to support its international growth. CB.Net’s former chairman Phillip Horsnall remains on the board as a non-executive director.
DTCC Develops XML Format For Corporate Actions Data
DTCC is working to create a new XML based format for delivery of corporate actions announcement information via its Global Corporate Action Validation Service (GCA VS), scheduled for roll-out in early 2008. DTCC currently provides data in its own proprietary format and in ISO 15022. The inadequacy of the 15022 format for its purposes is…
Accenture Loses Data Outsourcing Leader Bill Cline to Acai Solutions
Bill Cline has left Accenture, where he was managing director, global capital markets industry for North America and Asia-Pacific, and had spearheaded Accenture’s managed reference data service proposition in conjunction with Asset Control. He is now global managing partner at New York City-based management consulting company Acai Solutions. Cline’s departure from Accenture follows the retirement…
Capco Re-Engineers Outsourcing Platform as SOA Draws on Opensource, Grid and Web Services
Capco has begun a project to re-engineer the technology infrastructure supporting its provision of managed reference data services, and plans to draw on opensource and grid technologies as well as Web Services, to improve integration with its clients’ operations. The provider’s aim is to improve automation and build in greater scalability to the platform, in…
JJ Gets Down to “Nitty-Gritty” of “Grimy” Data Business
Reference data projects are “huge, scary and often not perceived as adding measurable value”. To avoid being derailed by the complexity and long payback time of such projects, firms should break the problem down into manageable chunks and accept that great value can be added to the business by addressing just part of the problem,…
Schroders Takes Citadel’s CADIS For Pricing and Analytics
Global asset manager Schroders plc is implementing Citadel Associates’ CADIS data management system for pricing and analytics. Schroders is the fourth investment manager to take CADIS in recent months, with others including AMVESCAP and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (Reference Data Review, November 2006). Robin Strong, Citadel’s head of sales and marketing for EMEA,…