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TheMuniCenter Picks FT Interactive Data For Reference Data
TheMuniCenter will utilize FT Interactive Data’s Securities Information Retrieval Service (SIRS) as the primary source of reference data for its electronic fixed income trading marketplace. Clients of TheMuniCenter will now be able to access a wide range of fixed income securities, including U.S. government, municipal and corporate bonds. The new service will also be leveraged…
Markit Buys Automated Trade Processing in Communicator Acquisition
Markit Group has acquired Communicator, a New York-based provider of automated systems for OTC derivatives trade processing. The deal will enable Markit to combine its pricing data and valuations in credit, equity, OTC derivatives and structured finance with Communicator’s automated trade processing systems. The transaction will provide clients with enhanced trading and risk management capabilities…
Cantor Fitzgerald and German-Based Asset Manager Opt for Xcitek XSP
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe and an unnamed German-based asset manager have selected XSP from Xcitek to automate their corporate actions processing. XSP will be implemented within Cantor Fitzgerald’s wholesale brokerage services group, BGC Partners. Meanwhile, the German-based asset manager has licensed both eTRAN and the ISO 15022-compliant messaging module for the automated notification and response capture…
Goldensource Integrates CDS Corporate Actions into Platform
Goldensource has teamed up with the CDS, a subsidiary of The Canadian Depository for Securities, to integrate CDS’s corporate actions and entitlements data into the GoldenSource Securities & Products software. For Goldensource, the deal extends its offering to financial institutions with Canadian operations or interests, while offering the CDS another route to market. The corporate…
Exchange Data International Joins Mondas’ List of Approved Feeds
Mondas has added corporate actions data from Exchange Data International (EDI), which is now on their list of ‘proven ISO 15022’ data providers. The data is now available via Mondas’ flagship Radica CAPS corporate actions software solution. The interface will allow Mondas clients to automate the capture of global corporate actions through the Radica CAPS.
Standard & Poor’s Raises Bar On Intraday Evaluations Data
Standard & Poor’s has upped the ante in the European pricing evaluations space by introducing five intraday pricing updates per day covering the complete universe of European securities. The move drives up the level of competition with dominant provider IDC, which provides end of day updates, and Reuters, which currently provides three daily updates, but…
Wachovia Expands Use of AC Plus To Boost Risk Data Quality
Wachovia Corp. has once again expanded its use of Asset Control’s AC Plus data management platform to boost the capabilities of its internal risk management function. Wachovia originally implemented AC Plus in its risk management operation in 2004 (Reference Data Review, January 2005) and subsequently extended its use to other areas of the enterprise as…
Reuters’ Reference Feed Sales Hit $100m Annually As FTID Posts $90m in Revenues for 1st Period
Reuters’ annual revenue run rate for reference data feeds is approaching $100 million. The figure represents a quadrupling of $25 million annualized sales rate of a couple of years ago. While Reuters doesn’t officially break out figures for its reference feed business – instead including the data within its enterprise information segment, which also includes…
Bear Stearns Taps Fidelity For Corporate Actions Data
Bear Stearns has signed a two-year agreement for access to Fidelity ActionsXchange’s corporate actions data and processing solution. The big U.S. investment bank will implement the Fidelity service in support of its global equities and fixed-income operations. Boston-based Fidelity ActionsXchange, a subsidiary of Fidelity Capital, will provide Bear Stearns with access to its proprietary platform…
Telekurs’ Reference Data Via Gain Chosen by Lava Trading
Reference data is reaching all aspects of the trade lifecycle, and transaction engines are a fast-growing consumer. This was most recently demonstrated by Lava Trading’s recent adoption of AIM’s data management platform in order to incorporate Telekurs Financial’s data into its transaction engine. New York-based Lava Trading, now owned by Citigroup (see sister newsletter Transaction…