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Kinetic Partners Expands Consulting Team with Three New Hires
Kinetic Partners, a global professional services firm to the asset management, investment banking and broking industry, today announced that it has appointed three new professionals to its consulting team. Patrick Crumplin, Martin Duff and Emily Benson join the Firm’s highly-regarded regulatory consulting and compliance team and all three will be based in the firm’s London…
Interactive Data Launches New Version of Market-Q
World Financial Information Conference, Booth #13 — Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of a suite of market data solutions for wealth management professionals and their clients, today announced the launch of Market-Q 3.5. This latest version of Interactive Data’s browser-based wealth management solution offers enhancements designed to extend wealth managers’ ability to provide timely,…
Euroclear and Capital Precision Transform Equity Shareholder Identification
Capital Precision, part of global stakeholder relations firm King Worldwide, and Euroclear have today signed a co-operation agreement to centralise the provision of worldwide shareholder identification data to equity issuers in key markets. Capital Precision’s experience in obtaining comprehensive information on shareholder positions, through the application of its industry leading identification methodology, is complemented with…
Virginie’s Blog – A Step up for the FSB?
Given the discussions I had with a number of people at Sibos a couple of weeks ago, the data management industry practitioners engaged in working on establishing a new legal entity identification (LEI) standard have high hopes that the Financial Stability Board (FSB) will be able to bridge the gap between national regulators in setting…
Thomson Reuters Launches Enterprise Platform for Exchanges
Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of the Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Exchanges (EPX) — an asset class-agnostic, high-performance data platform that supports the creation and distribution of all exchange information services. Exchanges around the world face a challenging environment characterized by increased competition, commercial pressure on transaction revenues, new regulatory mandates, and demands…
GlobeOp Expands Dublin Office
GlobeOp Financial Services is relocating and expanding its current Dublin office to serve increased demand from funds based in or extending into Europe. Vernon Barback, GlobeOp president and chief operating officer said: “We see continued European market growth in areas where we offer specialist expertise and can leverage our global technology platform – such as…
Information Mosaic’s Hartlage Discusses its BI Analytics and Client Portal Offerings
Information Mosaic has been gradually adding to its arsenal of post-trade automation solutions, the latest of which is its IMConnecting offering, which aims to provide users with a customisable client portal via which to view custody related, proxy voting and corporate actions data. Ken Hartlage, head of product management and marketing for the vendor, explains…
BNY Mellon’s Ruane Says Custodian Banks Will ‘Fill the Void’ in Delivering Prime Custody and Related Transparency Services to Hedge Funds
In a new opinion piece, BNY Mellon CEO of Alternative and Broker-Dealer Services Brian Ruane argues that recent industry and economic events will see custody banks continue to play a larger role providing services to hedge funds that previously were the sole domain of prime brokers. The paper, ‘Filling the Void: Transparency and the Rise…
SmartStream’s Jones Discusses the Launch of its New On Demand Corporate Actions Solution
SmartStream has launched a new on demand version of its corporate actions processing solution, TLM Corporate Actions Event Management On Demand , in line with its push to provide software as a service (SaaS) versions of its offerings. Alan Jones, senior product manager at the vendor, explains that the solution has seen interest from mid-size…
State Street Announces Acquisition of Complementa Investment-Controlling in Switzerland
State Street Corporation, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, announced today that it has acquired Complementa Investment-Controlling AG, an investment performance measurement and analytics firm based in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Complementa is a recognized leader in the precise and independent consolidation of assets, performance measurement and investment controlling for…