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Interactive Data Steps Up Focus on Asia to Meet Pent-Up Demand, Pricing, Reference Data Key
Interactive Data Corporation is stepping up its focus on Asia and a key element of what it is offering in the region and for which it says Asian demand is growing are its pricing and reference data capabilities. Interactive Data’s approach in Asia “is not at the division or product level”, according to Roger Sargeant,…
BB&T Renews XSP Licence, Adds Second Data Feed into Golden Copy
Branch Banking & Trust (BB&T) in the US – which has $130.8 billion in assets – has renewed its licence for the XSP corporate actions solution, with the addition of an interface to a second corporate actions data feed – DTC Redemption and Reorganization – to complement the data it already takes from Xcitek, formerly…
Swift Shifts Reference Data Strategy Personnel
Swift has made some changes to the personnel handling its reference data strategy. The co-operative has appointed Paolo Bernini head of information products of which reference data is an important component, it says. Peter O’Keefe meanwhile has moved from product management to markets, with responsibility for defining Swift’s reference data strategy – with a particular…
Citadel Signs Principal Global to Data Management Platform
Principal Global Investors has selected CADIS from Citadel Associates as its global data management platform. Principal Global Investors manages $244.9 billion in assets primarily for retirement plans and other institutional clients and is a member of the Principal Financial Group. With CADIS, Citadel’s component-based platform for the management of corporate data – version 5 of…
Hong Kong’s CLSA Picks Coexis Syn~ for Enterprise Ref Data Management, Back Office Replacement
London and New York-based technology vendor Coexis has signed a global contract with Hong-Kong based investment bank CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets for the deployment of Coexis’ Syn~ for enterprise-wide reference data management and securities processing. Syn~ will be the primary processing system for CLSA Transaction Management at its Global Operations Centre in Singapore. Syn~ will then…
Reuters Adds OTC Equity Options Prices to DataScope Select
In its third quarterly release this year of its hosted data management and extraction platform DataScope Select, Reuters has incorporated what it says are significant enhancements to the solution in the areas of OTC equity options pricing and counterparty data. The evaluated pricing services within Reuters DataScope Select have been extended with the provision of…
Interactive Data Leverages Xcitek Acquisition to Offer Intraday Corporate Actions Data
Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data business has introduced in North America a new service for delivery of corporate actions information to clients throughout the day. The service leverages Interactive Data’s acquisition of Xcitek earlier this year (Reference Data Review, April 2007); intraday delivery of corporate actions data was already on the Xcitek product…
Citi’s Bottega Pitches Office of Data Management as Solution to EDM Organisational Challenge
Enterprise data management (EDM) is “real and here”, but is there enough understanding of how to organise EDM programmes within firms to ensure they can be successful at it? This was the key question raised by John Bottega, chief data officer at Citi Markets & Banking, during his now regular keynote slot at FIMA, which…
Telekurs Adds Zacks Earnings Estimates to Reference, Market Data Products
Telekurs Financial now features new analysis and fundamental data from supplier Zacks Investment Research. Data from this information provider has been integrated into Telekurs Financial’s market and reference data products. Telekurs Financial’s products will carry quarterly and annual earnings estimates for around 4500 companies domiciled in the US and Canada, provided by Zacks Investment. Zacks…
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…