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Moody’s Acquires Mergent Evaluations Business, Plans to Offer Full Range of Fixed Income Prices
Moody’s has agreed to acquire the assets of Mergent Pricing and Evaluation Service from Xinhua Finance subsidiary Mergent, and will integrate the pricing service for corporate and municipal bonds into Moody’s Evaluations in a bid to offer a complete range of fixed income valuation services. Mergent will support Moody’s new service offering by providing its…
EDI Adds Shareholder Circulars, Says “No Fall-Out” From Decision to Compete Head-On with LSE
Reference and corporate actions data provider Exchange Data International (EDI) has fulfilled a commitment made earlier this year to offer online access to shareholder circulars (Reference Data Review, March 2007). An enhancement to its direct sourced UK corporate actions database WinCAB2, the web-based service enables more timely, easier and cheaper access to these documents, which…
Invesco Selects Quantifi for Investment Grade Structured Credit Business…
Invesco Worldwide Fixed Income has selected Quantifi XL for its Investment Grade structured credit business. Quantifi XL is a suite of add-in functions for Excel which includes a substitution analysis tool that allows CDO managers to evaluate the economic impact of collateral trades. Rohan Douglas, founder and CEO of Quantifi, comments: “We are delighted that…
Xignite, Telekurs Forge Corporate Actions Data Distribution Deal
Xignite, provider of financial web services for mission-critical corporate applications, has formed a partnership with Telekurs Financial to provide reciprocal services integrating Xignite’s financial web services with Telekurs Valordata Feed (VDF). The partnership with Xignite will enhance the accuracy of its existing XigniteMaster and web service by using Telekurs VDF’s master data and corporate actions…
Reuters Adds Hourly Corporate Actions Data to DataScope Select
Reuters has added an enhancement to Reuters DataScope Select which will see its corporate actions data updated hourly, rather than once a day. Users will be able to monitor portfolios more actively by choosing how often they receive updates and paying according to the quantity of data they use. Reuters clients will now be able…
Harvard Management Licenses XSP v5 Corporate Actions Software
Harvard Management Company (HMC) has licensed the XSP v5 corporate actions platform. HMC has also licensed XSP’s web-based eTRAN (Electronic Tracking Response and Notifications) and Swift ISO messaging modules for the notification and response capture of elections processing. The XSP v5 platform is built around a service-oriented architecture (SOA), utilising Microsoft .Net components and web…
A perfect match?
The acquisition by Markit of Swapswire garnered considerable attention by virtue simply of being the latest in a seemingly never-ending stream of acquisitions by the data and valuations provider. True to form, with this venture Markit puts itself at the leading edge of the capital markets’ preoccupation – improving the automation of OTC derivatives. In…
Tony Kirby Trades in Accenture for Ernst & Young
Tony Kirby has left Accenture – which he joined to work in its data management and managed reference data services business, but where he ultimately spearheaded much of the consultancy’s MiFID work – to join Ernst & Young as head of regulation and compliance.
Catherine Downhill Joins Fitch Ratings’ Global Business Development Team
Fitch Ratings has appointed Catherine Downhill as commercial director for Fitch’s Valuspread and Market Implied Ratings services. She joined Fitch on Monday December 10 and reports to Thomas Aubrey, managing director in Fitch’s Global Business Development team, London. Prior to joining Fitch, Downhill was most recently business manager for equity and fixed income evaluated pricing…
Taking the Risk Out of Mutual Fund Compliance By Jeff Levering, Vice President, NewRiver
Selling a mutual fund requires complex mutual fund information to be summarised down into data that sellers can understand, which is most often driven by a technology or data warehouse infrastructure. Missing and/or bad mutual fund data is nothing new, but it has recently garnered the attention of regulators as it was directly responsible for…