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FT Interactive Data, CMS BondEdge Extend Collaboration

Aiming to support the increasingly sophisticated risk management requirements of buy side clients such as Schroder Investment Management, the FT Interactive Data business of Interactive Data Corporation (IDC) has extended its collaboration with IDC’s CMS BondEdge business to add new data items to its risk and analytical data service. Schroder is one of four existing…

Telekurs Financial to add New Reference Data to VDF for MiFID

Telekurs Financial is to introduce new reference data to help its clients achieve MiFID compliance. According to its head of product services Richard Newbury, a key aspect of Telekurs Financial’s plans is the reworking of its reference data model to make much more of the institution related data it holds, “in order to provide this…

Soliton’s Nazir Noormohamed Takes Role at Acquirer SunGard

Contrary to early reports, Nazir Noormohamed, formerly CEO of the Soliton TimeSquare business recently acquired by SunGard, is staying at the company as managing director, SunGard TimeSquare and Managed Services.

JPMorgan’s Chief Data Officer Peter Serenita Gets to the Hub of the Matter

JPMorgan Chase has taken an “operational hub” approach to centralising reference data for its wholesale business, which has improved efficiencies and reduced costs, with most business units seeing “paypack within one to two years”, said Peter Serenita, chief data officer, JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services, who shared his experience at FIMA 2006 in London earlier this…

Citadel Notches Up Three New Clients for CADIS Solution

Citadel Associates, provider of data management solutions to investment managers, has chalked up three deals for its CADIS system in recent weeks, with AMVESCAP, the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investment Board and another as yet unnamed major buy side. Citadel says these wins prove the validity of its Investment Solutions Layer concept. The CPP Investment…

Ness Improves Data Acquisition and Extraction in FDE Platform

Ness Technologies has unveiled an enhanced version of its reference data management platform Financial Data Enterprise (FDE). New features in FDE 3.0 include an improved data acquisition interface enabling users to dynamically map, cleanse and transform incoming data in various formats to their underlying database models, an improved exceptions and workflow management interface and a…

S&P Investigates Pre-packaged Reference Data Solutions to Meet Risk Needs of Buy Side

Standard & Poor’s is exploring the possibility of creating pre-packaged reference data solutions for investment managers seeking cost effective means of complying with the risk and regulatory demands generated by their greater use of alternative asset classes. This follows research carried out by S&P – which has traditionally provided data to the sell side of…

SunGard Buys Soliton at Last For Data Management Expertise

In a deal which appears to have taken some two years of on-off negotiations to come to fruition, SunGard has acquired the TimeSquare business of Toronto headquartered data management solutions vendor Soliton. TimeSquare becomes part of SunGard’s referencePoint enterprise data management (EDM) managed services and solutions business. SunGard says there are no plans to make…

EDM Council Sets its Agenda

The EDM Council has set the agenda by which it proposes “to advance enterprise data management as a core operational infrastructure”. There will be four primary work streams. Under business metrics, the two focuses will be data quality and performance measurement. The council has launched an evaluation project covering the security description data elements included…

Tap Solutions Expands its Datafeed Services

Tap Solutions has expanded its data coverage with the introduction of new feed managers for the TAPMaster suite. The addition of Reuters Estimates and Reuters Fundamentals from Reuters Knowledge Direct and FT Interactive Data’s FTS portfolio administration tool to the TAPMaster feed manager library enables Tap to offer access to 21 different datafeed services from…