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Eagle Offers Data Integration Services to Further Streamline Clients’ Implementation
Eagle Investment Systems, a provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, announced today that it now offers data integration services, a new service option within its hosted offering, Eagle ACCESS. This provides clients with reduced risk and shortened implementation timeframes by including data integration to support deployments of Eagle’s accounting and…
Volante Extends Messaging Support in FX Data and Settlements
Volante Technologies today announced its expansion in the foreign exchange messaging world with the availability of high-speed integration technology for price data from the Currenex ESP, as well as an integration model for the CLS settlement environment. Originally developed to integrate Currenex Executable Streaming Price (ESP) data into the low-latency data management architecture of a…
Volante Partners with QDBS, Enters Mexican Marketplace for Financial Data Management
Volante Technologies today announced its partnership with QDBS of Mexico City, a consulting firm and developer of software for local and multinational banks operating in Mexico. QDBS is using Volante technology for integration of SWIFT and other messaging in customer projects, as well as a new software solution that will be launched later this year….
GoldenSource’s New Data Warehouse Solution Has Already Netted Two Asset Management Clients, Says Meriton
EDM vendor GoldenSource has this week launched its new Data Warehouse solution on the market, pulling together its various data management offerings under the banner of a consolidated repository for a firm’s various data sets. Mike Meriton, CEO of the vendor, explains to Reference Data Review that it has already bagged two asset management clients for…
Philadelphia Fed’s Nakamura Proposes Instrument Database, But What About the Office of Financial Research?
Proof yet again that the US regulatory community might not be aware of the implications of the Office of Financial Research reform proposals comes in the form of recent comments made by Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank economist Leonard Nakamura. Nakamura made proposals last week that an all encompassing instrument database be established to help regulators…
Appetite for Outsourcing has Risen to Due to Concern About Regulation and Reputational Risk, Says MoneyMate’s Brennan
Despite the fear of outsourcing that has dominated the financial services community over the last few years, firms are now increasingly open to discussions about the subject, according to recent research by buy side focused, data quality management solution vendor MoneyMate. The majority of the 40 US and UK-based investment managers involved in the vendor’s…
XBRL Tagging of Corporate Actions Could Save the Industry US$400m per Year, According to DTCC, Swift and XBRL US Case Study
As promised by David Hands, director of asset services product management at DTCC Solutions, back in April, the group working on the XBRL and ISO mapping initiative has finally published its case study to illustrate why firms should adopt XBRL tagging for corporate actions. And that reason comes in the form of an estimated saving…
In the Firing Line
Last week’s MiFID reunion meeting involved both a handy roundup of all the MiFID related proposals coming down the pipe (although it was a speedy roundup, given the number of items to cover) and an opportunity for industry participants to do what they seem to like best of late: vent about regulatory grievances. In the…
DTCC, SWIFT & XBRL US Unveil Business Case for Corporate Actions Automation
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), SWIFT and XBRL US today announced the results of a business case advocating a transformation in the way corporate actions announcements are communicated in the United States, allowing investors to receive information on such corporate actions as mergers, dividends, stock splits and other events in a more timely,…
Systemic Risk Regulator Should Resemble the CRO Function and Data Utility is Likely to be Too Costly
The 22 respondents to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s recent survey (Sifma) believe that regardless of the exact structure of the systemic risk regulator, its roles and responsibilities for the overall markets should reflect those of a firm’s chief risk officer (CRO). The Sifma member firms, regulators, clearing counterparties (CCPs) and exchanges involved…