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LSE Defends New Pricing Model For Corporate Actions Data

The London Stock Exchange refutes the suggestion that its new pricing policy for subscriptions to its corporate actions data by distributors is simply an attempt to extract more revenues from data vendors. According to Mark Husler, head of reference data at the exchange, the new policy, due to take effect in April 2007, is the…

Mellon’s Harkins Offers Guide To Successful Team Building

People – specifically, finding the right ones, training them appropriately and hanging onto them – were key themes at this month’s ‘Reference Data Management: Challenges and Solutions’ symposium hosted by Telekurs in New York. The symposium, also featuring Dun & Bradstreet’s Keith Webster, Telekurs’ Barry Raskin and Reference Data Review’s own Andrew Delaney, offered insight…

Siperian Brings Client Data Management System to Europe

Providers of counterparty and client data management solutions in Europe face new competition from California based Siperian, which in partnership with Deutsche Boerse-owned counterparty data specialist Avox has secured a soon-to-be-announced deal with what it describes as a major European bank. On the back of this, Siperian is beefing up its presence in Europe, opening…

Asset Control Bags E*Trade, Calyon, Sets Sights on Asia-Pacific

As its deal with E*Trade increases its tally of U.S. customers, Netherlands-based data management platform vendor Asset Control is setting its sights on the Asia-Pacific region, as well as planning to leverage its data management platform to create vertical solutions. Asset Control has announced two sales this month. The E*Trade Securities subsidiary of E*Trade Financial…

Reuters Trumpets Early Signings For Asian Evaluations Service

Reuters reports strong levels of interest in its recently launched Asian fixed-income evaluated pricing service, and says it has already signed up users. The service covers six currencies – the Australian dollar, the Hong Kong dollar, the Japanese yen, the new Taiwan dollar, the New Zealand dollar and the Singapore dollar – and some 20,000…

Industry Veteran Peck’s Efforts at Quantifi Yield Results with First German Bank Win

An increased focus on the European markets is paying dividends for US based Quantifi, provider of modelling, pricing tools and risk analysis for credit derivatives, as it picks up its first German banking client. In June the company opened a new London office and hired John Peck – ex of FT Interactive Data, Telerate and…

Swift to Kick-Off Prototype CA Message Certification

Later this year Swift will start a certification proof of concept of the Swift Testing and Certification Service for ISO 15022 compliant corporate actions messages. A number of custodians and vendors have com-mitted to having their messages exam-ined by this prototype testing tool. The messages will be tested against the standard Swift verification, and then…

CheckFree/CDS INC Partner on Canadian Corporate Actions Data

CheckFree eVent, CheckFree Corporation’s automation and workflow solution for corporate actions processing, now interfaces with CDS INC’s ISO 15022 compliant corporate actions data feed. CDS INC is a subsidiary of The Canadian Depository for Securities, and supplies Canadian equity and debt entitlements information. As a result of this joint effort, Canadian entitlement data for the…

EDI Adds GlobeTax Non-Resident Tax Rates to Reference Data Product

Exchange Data International has signed up to StatRate, a new product from withholding tax specialist GlobeTax, in order to include non-resident statutory withholding tax rate data in its securities master file product. StatRate is GlobeTax’s second reference data product. EDI is already a user of its first, e-TaxData Online (Reference Data Review, June 2005), and…

DSTi Integrates Interface To Reuters DataScope Select

DST International will offer an integrated interface to Reuters DataScope Select as part of its investment accounting, performance measurement, risk management and data management solutions. Reuters DataScope Select provides access to global pricing, validated terms and conditions, historical data content and cross-reference data for a range of financial instruments.