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Xenomorph Delivers Derivatives Data Management For SGSS Asset Servicing
Xenomorph, real-time analytics and data management solutions provider, has signed a five-year agreement with the asset servicing department at Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS), under which the latter will use Xenomorph’s TimeScape production data management system for its derivatives operations. SGSS’ asset servicing department will use TimeScape to create a single, consistent and centralised source…
London Stock Exchange Enters Reconciliation Game With UnaVista
The London Stock Exchange has launched UnaVista, a global data integration, validation, matching and reconciliation service, designed to help firms identify inconsistencies across any data type. The core of the service is a rules-based engine that enables data to be reconciled from any source and across any business function. UnaVista can be deployed in two…
Natixis Bleichroeder Chooses Fidelity ActionsXchange for Global Corporate Actions
Natixis Bleichroeder, a New York-based investment bank specialising in the energy, commodities, healthcare and media sectors with offices across the US and affiliates in London and Paris, has signed an agreement for Fidelity ActionsXchange to serve as its global corporate action data partner. ActionsXchange will provide Natixis with cleansed domestic and international equity universe corporate…
A-Team Analysis: A New Dawn for Managed Reference Data Services?
The enterprise data management (EDM) systems marketplace has entered a new phase, as a rash of recent corporate activity and a general maturing of the providers and their offerings is enabling speedier implementations and faster returns, engendering new confidence in the value of EDM projects. The managed data services proposition has also been injected with…
Citadel Gets New CEO, Peter Little
As reported in Reference Data Review‘s sister title A-Team IQ this quarter, buy side focused EDM vendor Citadel has a new investor and CEO – Peter Little. Little’s arrival follows the departure of former managing director Jean Williams, after a disagreement between her and the other Citadel directors about the future direction of the company. Little…
LakeFront Data Ventures Adds Associates, Touts Service-Oriented Data Management Approach
The progress of LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV), the specialist data management consultancy led by former SunGard EDM man Dale Richards, appears to be gathering pace. Richards reports that the company has “been engaged by a number of players across the whole ecosystem” – including a major Wall Street bank, a large Canadian pension fund, a major…
Odyssey Gears Up to Make Bigger Splash in EDM Marketplace
Wealth and asset management systems specialist Odyssey is stepping up its focus on the enterprise data management systems marketplace, having recognised that the EDM capabilities it has created to support the implementation of its core applications are of value as a standalone solution. When Odyssey, which was founded in Luxembourg in 1995 and has its…
JPMorgan to Roll Out New Corporate Actions Reporting
JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services has completed a pilot of Announcement Capture, a new service which captures global corporate actions announcements from multiple sources and generates a “golden record” for client reporting purposes. Announcement Capture is part of JPMorgan’s global STP programme to standardise, consolidate and deliver timely, comprehensive and accurate corporate actions announcement information to…
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Improves Corporate Actions Risk Management Service
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has enhanced its Corporate Actions Online Services offering with the launch of a new global web-based notification and response system. The upgrade – available via BNY Mellon Asset Servicing’s web-based information delivery and transaction platform – is designed to give clients greater flexibility for managing corporate events, such as tender offers, conversions, mergers,…
Globalisation Makes Life Harder for Corporate Actions Processors, Sibos Panellists Say
Despite the efforts of industry groups and standardisers in recent years, the job of processing corporate actions is getting harder, not easier. Greater levels of international investment and the growing complexity of the products in which clients are investing are key reasons for this, suggested Justin Chapman, senior vice president at Northern Trust, during a…