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Convexity Adopts Asset Control’s AC Plus as Starter Pack
Newly launched hedge fund Convexity Capital Management’s selection of Asset Control’s AC Plus platform is aimed at setting in place a reference data infrastructure that to underpin the fund’s expansion into new areas of business. Convexity implemented AC Plus in under two days, and is using the system as its central repository in support of…
Reuters Sets DataScope Select as Cornerstone Of Strategy for Reference Data Delivery
The launch on January 18 of Reuters’ DataScope Select platform is the culmination of three years of planning and development, and sets in place Reuters’ strategic delivery vehicle for reference data services through 2010. The release of the new service – effectively creating a portal-based ‘shopping mall’ that clients can browse for the reference data…
JWG Takes MiFID Impact on Reference Data to High Granularity
The MiFID Joint Working Group has taken the bull by the horns with respect to entity identifiers and their role in the forthcoming EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, much hullabaloo about which continues to bubble in the London marketplace if nowhere else. The latest JWG white paper – described on Page 4 and available…
Barclays Global Investors Sets Asset Control At Centre of Global Reference Data Repository
Barclays Global Investors’ selection of Asset Control’s AC Plus for a planned central data repository marks the fruition of a year of research and evaluations to create a global platform for reference data and time-series data management. BGI will kick off its global implementation in January, with the platform – covering both equities and fixed-income…
NRW, Bankgesellschaft Berlin Adopt Actis. BSP’s ProDB Platform
NRW.Bank, the largest of Germany’s regional development banks in terms of assets, and Bankgesellschaft Berlin, a regional corporate bank, have gone live with BSP ProDB from Actis.BSP, a German provider of core banking and capital markets systems. Both banks will use the BSP platform to handle securities descriptive data and corporate actions information. BSP ProDB…
Data Management Steps Up a Gear
We can’t help but feel that the reference data marketplace has, over the past few months, stepped into another plane. When we launched Reference Data Review almost three years ago (yes, three years!), the market was full of talk and devoid of action. Looking back at our coverage in 2005, we’re proud to see RDR…
Mergent’s BondViewer Offers Evaluated Pricing for U.S. Fixed Income
New York-based Mergent Inc., a subsidiary of Xinhua Finance, has released BondViewer, an on-demand web-based system for accessing the company’s database of U.S. taxable and municipal bonds, retail notes, U.S. agency issues and Treasury notes. Features include previous-day evaluated pricing for each bond provided by Mergent’s independent end-of-day evaluation service, and performance tracking. Terms and…
Columba, Telekurs Team Up To Supply CA Data to LCH.Clearnet
LCH.Clearnet has implemented a corporate actions data platform using a consolidated source of international corporate actions content from Telekurs Financial combined with Columba’s web-based, knowledge management platform. This customizable platform allows Telekurs Financial’s data and LCH.Clearnet’s in-house future events data to be aggregated, manipulated and distributed internally.
CheckFree Adds EDI CA Data Feed; Automates ISO 20022 Data Dictionaries
CheckFree Corp.’s CheckFree eVent corporate actions automation platform has created an interface to the ISO 15022-compliant corporate actions data feed from Exchange Data International (EDI). EDI’s corporate actions data is already integrated into a number of vendor systems, including, most recently, Mergent’s EventsData.com and BvDEP’s Osiris. Meanwhile, CheckFree is automating the way Message Broker, the…
J.P. Morgan Securities Upgrades CA System
J.P. Morgan Securities has gone live with the latest release of Xcitek’s XSP corporate actions automation and processing system. J.P. Morgan Securities has been using XSP for five years now and says the new version will be used to expand its use of ISO functionality, eliminating the need for manual diary entries. The firm will…