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FactSet Research Systems Reports Results for the Third Quarter of Fiscal 2010

FactSet Research Systems, a provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications to the global investment community, today announced its results for the third quarter of fiscal 2010. For the quarter ended May 31, 2010, revenues were $160.3 million, up 4% compared to the prior year. Operating income for the third quarter increased to $55.7…

Markit and Cairn Capital to Launch European ABS Performance Monitor

Markit, a global financial information services company, and Cairn Capital Limited, a credit asset management and advisory firm, today announced the forthcoming launch of the Markit ABS Performance Monitor platform. This new service will combine Markit’s ABS surveillance capability with Cairn’s advisory and credit market expertise to provide state of the art performance monitoring for…

LSE Adds Yet More to its UnaVista Platform by Adding Support for FIX and XML

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is certainly keen to add all the bells and whistles necessary to attract the maximum number of customers to its flagship post-trade platform UnaVista. Following the move of its transaction reporting service onto the platform earlier this month, the exchange operator has now added support for FIX and XML standards…

UnaVista Expands Volante Use With FIX and XML Messaging Support

After successful deployment of Volante Designer with SWIFT messaging support, the London Stock Exchange’s UnaVista has added FIX and XML support, Volante Technologies announced today. The implementation will facilitate expansion of the UnaVista matching, reconciliation and data integration engine into new business areas, including linking UnaVista to the Exchange’s FIX gateway, and supporting the implementation…

FISD Launches Financial Information Associate Certification

The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announces the launch of its new “Financial Information Associate” certification – the very first offering of its kind in this industry sector and the first to come out of the FISD Professional Certification program. As of May 2010, early adopters from…

LSE’s Husler Explains Decision Behind the Move of its Transaction Reporting Service onto UnaVista

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has offered a transaction reporting service, dubbed the Exchange Reporting Service (ERS), since 2002, but has recently moved the service onto its web-hosted platform UnaVista. According to Mark Husler, head of information services business development at the LSE, the exchange operator decided to move the service onto the platform in…

Aim Software and SIX Telekurs Launch 7th Edition of the Aim Global Reference Data and Risk Management Survey

Aim Software today announced the launch of its 7th international reference data and risk management survey which is designed to provide insights into the challenges, trends and planned investments for reference data automation and risk management in the financial industry. This year’s survey is sponsored by SIX Telekurs. In the dramatically changing world of finance,…

S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies Expands Coverage Beyond Rated Universe with Quantitatively Derived Corporate Credit Health Assessments

S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies, an independent and analytically separate business unit within Standard & Poor’s that provides users with market intelligence and analytic insight for risk-driven investment analysis, announced the launch of a new credit evaluation benchmark on its Global Credit Portal investor analytics platform. Called the Credit Health Panel, the new feature provides…

Volante Announces Support for Swift SR 2010 and EBAM

Powering finance with data management innovations, Volante Technologies, today announced the availability of updates to the Volante product suite with support for the latest Swift Standards Release 2010 as well as EBAM (Electronic Bank Account Management). Available as plug-ins to Volante integration tools, these include fully functional versions of the newest ISO 15022 and ISO…

Enhanced Standards Development Process Brings Higher Quality Standards to Market Twice as Fast

In the second half of 2009, SWIFT Standards completed a thorough review and redesign of its development process for new financial messages. The results of this significant overhaul, closely aligned with the ISO 20022 process, include a faster time to market by more than 60%, and higher quality standards due to rigorous pilot group testing…