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Data Management Sales Head John Wallis Leaves SunGard
John Wallis, formerly head of EMEA sales for SunGard Data Management Solutions, has departed the vendor for pastures new. He came into the SunGard fold when the software giant acquired Fame Information Services in late 2003. Wallis’s departure follows the ejection from SunGard late last year of high profile EDM figures Marc Odho and Rob…
S&P Buys Imake Consulting, ABSXchange to Boost Structured Finance Data, Analytics, Modelling
Standard & Poor’s has acquired Imake Consulting, a provider of software and services to the structured finance market, and ABSXchange, an end-to-end solution provider for structured finance data, analytics and modelling. S&P is aiming improve its ability to analyse structured finance transactions including residential mortgage-backed securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities, asset-based securities and collateralised debt obligations….
Time for a MiFID for Corporate Actions? By Richard Newbury, Head of Product Services at Telekurs
Corporate actions processing is moving to centre stage in the minds of back office managers, in the same way that trading has been to the front office for a very long time. Corporate actions processing is expensive in terms of human resources. There are persistent rumours that missed corporate actions have cost some banks dearly…
ATD Takes Cleansed CA Data From Fidelity ActionsXchange
Automated Trading Desk (ATD) has signed up for cleansed US domestic equity corporate actions information from Fidelity ActionsXchange, via its ActionService product. After a trial of the corporate actions solution, ATD made its decision to go with Fidelity ActionsXchange based on its timeliness, data accuracy and ease of integration into its own system, according to…
Vancouver-based OTC Val Enters Structured Products Pricing Space, Targets White-Labelling Deals
Firms seeking independent prices for OTC derivatives have a potential new partner in the shape of Vancouver-headquartered OTC Valuations Limited (OTC Val). Founded this year and comprising a team of people with backgrounds in mathematical modeling, valuation system implementation, training, proprietary trading support and spreadsheet consulting services in the OTC derivatives area, OTC Val has…
Aubrey Leaves Thomson for Fitch, Plans End to End Solution for Fixed Income Derivatives Data, Analytics
In a move that has surprised some industry observers, Thomas Aubrey has joined Fitch Ratings as a managing director in its global business development team. Aubrey comes from Thomson Financial, where he had been director of investment management for more than three years. Despite having been tipped for a plum role in the new Reuters…
Citadel Rolls-Out CADIS Version 5, With Structured Products Focus
Citadel Associates, provider of data management solutions to investment managers, has begun the roll-out of version 5 of its CADIS system to clients. CADIS sits at the heart of Citadel’s Investment Solutions Layer proposition. Version 5 contains new functionality for managing data associated with complex derivatives and structured products, and to facilitate more rapid take-on…
Standing Settlement Instructions: Bringing the Poor Relation of Reference Data into the Fold
Awareness of the fact that missing or inaccurate standing settlement instructions (SSIs) are a major inhibitor to true straight-through processing (STP) is as long-standing as the industry’s focus on STP itself. Problems with SSIs are still the biggest single cause of reference data-related trade fails, which themselves are the second biggest cause of fails behind…
West LB in UAT with Asset Control’s AC Plus, Plans To Go Live for Managing WM, Bloomberg in October
The operations group of German bank West LB AG has begun the roll-out of Asset Control’s AC Plus data management solution to first replace a legacy mainframe system managing feeds from WM and Bloomberg, with a view to using AC Plus to replace an inhouse built centralised data management solution in the longer term. The…
Anarchy in the UK (at Least) as Market Participants Fret Over BIC Inadequacy, Future of IBEI as Entity ID
The operations group of German bank West LB AG has begun the roll-out of Asset Control’s AC Plus data management solution to first replace a legacy mainframe system managing feeds from WM and Bloomberg, with a view to using AC Plus to replace an inhouse built centralised data management solution in the longer term. The…