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Standard & Poor’s to Provide Counterparty Data Feed to Siperian MDM Hub
Standard & Poor’s is providing a counterparty data feed to Siperian’s master data management (MDM) Hub, enabling Siperian customers to view relationships between securities, issuers, parents and subsidiaries for better risk analysis and operational management. With the combination of Siperian’s master data management platform and Standard & Poor’s security and legal entity data feed, Security…
Netik Targets Service Model with Capco Reference Data Services Buy, Symphony as New Majority Investor
Data warehouse provider Netik has completed a buyout of its business from The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and simultaneously acquired Capco Reference Data Services (CRDS) from Capco. Netik is now pursuing a vision of transforming from a purely software business into a software and service business, bringing together the CRDS capability to scrub…
Avox, GoldenSource Forge Strategic Alliance
Avox, the business entity data specialist, and GoldenSource, provider of enterprise data management solutions, have entered a strategic partnership that they say will allow firms to utilise fully verified and ‘’stress-tested’’ business entity data across their entire organisations. Mutual clients will now be able to easily integrate the Avox business entity data service with the…
Data Management Software Provider Siperian Bags $25M in Expansion Funding
Master data management (MDM) platform provider Siperian says it has closed an oversubscribed $25 million Series E financing. Led by new investor, Investor Growth Capital (IGC), and with participation from 100 per cent of Siperian’s existing investors, the funding will be used to continue the company’s European expansion, accelerate channel development and further advance the…
Telekurs Fills Long-Vacant UK MD Role as Cole Joins from CounterpartyLink…
Martin Cole has joined Telekurs UK as managing director, taking a position that has been unfilled since early last year. Cole comes from legal entity data specialist CounterpartyLink, where he was head of sales and marketing. He brings 20 plus years of experience in the industry, including a stint as managing director, UK and Ireland,…
A-Team Analysis: Can S&P Solve the Problem of Entity Identification Where the ISO Process Has Failed?
Another month, another twist in the tail of the International Business Entity Identifier (IBEI) story. In fact, there could be two twists this month if the Swift CIVIC initiative does turn out to be on the skids. As reported extensively in Reference Data Review last year (in the October 2007 issue among others), the ISO-led…
Swift Admits CIVIC Plans “Under Review”, as Observers Suggest Business Case Proving Difficult
As Reference Data Review went to press, it emerged that Swift could be having second thoughts about pressing ahead with previously-announced plans to allocate BIC-like codes to funds – dubbed CIVICs (Reference Data Review first brought to light Swift’s CIVIC plans as far back as September 2006). In light of the failure of the ISO…
Desjardins Cleans Up Entity Data, Deploys SunGard Adaptiv Credit Risk
Desjardins Group has signed a three-year deal with CounterpartyLink for the provision of legal entity data as part of a larger counterparty and issuer risk project that will also see Desjardins – the biggest co-operative financial group in Canada – implement SunGard Adaptiv Credit Risk. CounterpartyLink’s data will first be used by Desjardins to ensure…
Telekurs Financial Claims MiFID Ref Data is Attracting ‘Steady Number’ of New Clients
Telekurs Financial is reporting good take-up of its MiFID-specific reference data. The vendor declines to be specific on client numbers, but says it is “more than happy” with sign-up rates, and says the MiFID reference data has “attracted a steady number of new clients” across Europe and the rest of the world. The data vendor…
S&P Emphasises Co-ordinated Relationship with Asset Control as More of its Feeds are Integrated to AC Plus
Standard & Poor’s is trumpeting the availability of feed handlers to integrate a range of its data services into Asset Control’s AC Plus solution. The integration is, says S&P, a demonstration of its strong and well co-ordinated relationship with the data management systems vendor, which should serve to reassure mutual clients that they will not…