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Can Corporate Actions Automate Without Wave of Regulatory Stick?
Despite a myriad of available software solutions aimed at automating corporate actions processing, industry participants can relish the prospect of unreliable data and manually intensive processing for some time to come. That’s among the findings of new research from TowerGroup that suggests that corporate actions processing remains one of the major roadblocks standing in the…
Jordan & Jordan Unveils Reference Data Testing Kit
Jordan & Jordan (J&J), a New York-headquartered management and infor-mation technology consulting firm, has introduced a so-called Reference Data Testing Framework (RDTF) and will offer it to clients as part of its reference data consulting services. Developed by J&J over the past two years, RDTF is a customizable framework and set of tools that address…
Reuters Targets Hedge Funds, Adds Lipper to DataScope Select
Reuters plans to integrate the hedge fund data of its Lipper subsidiary into the DataScope Select delivery system. The move marks a significant advance in Reuters’ stated aim of targeting the hedge fund marketplace, which it sees as an area of major potential growth. The addition of the Lipper Tass Hedge Fund Database to DataScope…
CB.Net Sets Outsourced Service For Payments Data Management
London-based provider of descriptive data for the bank payments area, CB.Net, has introduced an outsourced payments reference data service. The new CB.Net Payments Reference Data Service (PRDS) will effectively allow financial institutions to outsource management of their payments data, offloading to CB.Net such functions as sourcing, verifying, validating and normalizing for data required for international…
Thomson Financial Jumps into Bond Evaluations; Adds Standard & Poor’s Data to Intraday Snapshot
Thomson Financial is set to add Standard & Poor’s European bond valuations data to the intraday pricing feed it launched late last year. The move – which is to be announced as early as the first week in July – adds yet another player to the bond valuations marketplace, currently dominated by Interactive Data Corp.,…
And You Thought Your Structured Data Was in a Mess….
As the world of reference data moves to a phase of relative maturity, the landscape is becoming littered with the usual ‘after-dinner circuit’ of case studies, interviews and Powerpoints gloating about how the data challenge has finally been met. Instead of the chaos we uncovered three years ago – has it been that long? –…
AIM’s Gain to Carry EDI Reference, Pricing Data
Exchange Data International (EDI) has made its reference, pricing and corporate actions data available via Aim Software’s Gain reference data management platform. Gain already integrates data from such sources as Reuters DataScope, Telekurs Valoren Data Feed (VDF) and FT Interactive Data.
CheckFree Sets ISO 15022 Interface to Fidelity ActionsXchange
CheckFree Corp. has introduced an ISO 15022-compliant interface to the Fidelity ActionsXchange corporate actions data feed from its CheckFree eVent corporate actions processing platform. CheckFree eVent allows customers to receive, validate and process corporate actions, from announcement through entitlement calculation to notification and instruction processing. The ActionsXchange ActionService data feed integrates data from multiple commercial…
FT Interactive Data Adds Pricing to Temenos T24
Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data has agreed to make its pricing, evaluations, corporate actions and reference data available via banking systems provider Temenos’s T24 system. As part of the arrangement T24 clients will also be able to access FT Interactive European Union Savings Directive (EUSD) data, which is fully integrated with the Temenos EU…
TAP Launches Publisher Module for Real-Time Reference Data…
TAP Solutions has released TAPMaster Publisher, a new module for its data management platform that provides real-time detection and notification of changes to reference data. The add-on module reads incoming streams of vendor data as it arrives at the client site, detects changes from previous values, and publishes those changes to the applications and users…