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Princeton Financial Optimizes Data Management of Hauck & Aufhaeuser in Record Time
Hauck & Aufhäuser Investment Gesellschaft S.A. (HAIG), a service provider for the conception and administration of funds, needed to replace their fund accounting system while maintaining operation of all business-critical systems. Due to Princeton Financial® Systems? (PFS) extensive experience in this area, they successfully supported HAIG in this project and simultaneously established a system architecture…
Broadridge’s Access Data Introduces Unique Tax Management Solution for Mutual Funds and ETFs
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced a unique tax management solution providing mutual fund managers and ETF sponsors access to data to accurately calculate state tax obligations. Broadridge’s Multi-State Tax Management solution, the first of its kind, collects, organises and tabulates shareholder account data across distribution channels in all 50 states, without divulging specific shareholder information….
Daewoo Securities Selects Pricing Partners’ Financial Analytics Solutions
Pricing Partners announced today the signing of Daewoo Securities, the largest stock brokerage and investment banking firm in South Korea, as the its first South Korean client. The agreement was signed through its regional partner Belatos. Under this groundbreaking agreement, Daewoo Securities will deploy Pricing Partners’ entire financial pricing and analytics solutions, Price-it Library suite…
The Industry Needs a Global, Unique Legal Entity ID with No Embedded Logic, Says HSBC’s Serenita
The adoption of a global, unique legal entity identifier that has no embedded logic will have the biggest impact on the data management space, according to Peter Serenita, global head of entity and account data management for Global Banking and Markets at HSBC. However, the industry will also need to take into account the wider…
DTCC Launches Portal Providing Regulators Globally Direct, Online Access to CDS Data
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced today, that it has launched an automated portal to provide regulators worldwide with direct, online access to global credit default swap (CDS) data registered in DTCC’s Warehouse Trust Company LLC (Warehouse Trust) global repository. Currently 19 regulators around the world are already live on the portal. This…
SunGard’s Scianna on the Position, Risk and Ops Focused Restructure and Plans for the Stream Solution Set This Year
As part of its overall push to better integrate its various solution sets following so many acquisitions over the last few years, SunGard has created a new division focused on supporting the position, risk and operations functions within financial institutions. Various parts from the old brokerage and clearance business, the wider capital markets group and…
ISO Standards for Legal Entity Data are More Important Than Those for Corporate Actions, Says PaceMetrics’ Giblin
The development of ISO standards for legal entity data should be prioritised over the push to get the industry to adopt ISO 20022 within the corporate actions world, according to Gerry Giblin, CEO of EDM vendor PaceMetrics. In the fifth in our series of talking heads on the challenges surrounding entity data management in the…
A Single Standard for Legal Entity Data May be a Long Way Off, Says Thomson Reuters’ Rice
The regulatory community may be keen for the industry to adopt standardised legal entity identifiers, but the adoption of a single suitable standard for these purposes may take some time. In the fourth in our series of talking heads on the challenges surrounding entity data management in the current market, Tim Rice, global head of…
S&P Boosts ABSXchange Analytical Capabilities
A series of enhancements have been made to ABSXchange – S&P’s structured finance analytics platform – as part of an extensive programme to help investors deepen their analysis of structured finance transactions. The latest round of upgrades include automatically calculated data fields where values are not otherwise supplied by deal servicers; a new screening capability…
SIX Telekurs USA Positions For Growth With Senior Hires
SIX Telekurs USA, the American subsidiary of the Swiss-based financial information vendor, today announced that it has appointed Anthony Fiori as manager of data acquisition, Renee Potter as vice president of business strategy and corporate development and Charles Roy as vice president, head of finance. Fiori has more than 20 years’ experience in financial information…