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Market Information Server Release
SpryWare®, the software developer of ultra low latency market data technology, has announced the second generation release of its flagship product, the Market Information Server (MIS)™.
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SimCorp Yell Win
Yell Group plc has selected the IT2 TMS to support its cash, treasury, treasury accounting and risk management operations. Yell Group plc is a leading international directories business, operating in the classified advertising market through printed, online and phone-based media in the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain and Latin America.
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CCK DBS Win
CCK Financial Solutions Ltd (CCK), a leading provider of treasury and capital market solutions, today announced it has received a letter of intent from DBS Bank (DBS) in Singapore, for the implementation of Guava Suite, CCK’s treasury management system.
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Avanquest Acquires Software Paradise
Developer and publisher of business and consumer software for the Avantquest PC market, has announced the acquisition of Software Paradise in the UK, a leading online software superstore.
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SEPA Starts Testing Month Early
SWIFT announced today that the SEPA Testing Programme has started nearly one month ahead of schedule. The Programme, initiated by major European banks, and operated by SWIFT, enables all parties concerned to perform comprehensive testing that simulates payments under SEPA.
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Asset Control Appointments
Asset Control, has made two new executive appointments to its senior management team. Peter Bennfors joins the company from Misys as Chief Financial Officer and Rich Katsoff joins from IBM in a newly created role as Head of Services.
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Atrium Network Sales Appointment
Atrium Network, has appointed Eryl Jones as Sales Manager, UK and Northern Europe. Eryl’s appointment comes on the back of increased sales of Atrium Network's flexible solutions in the region.
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Security Management Spec from GlobalPlatform
GlobalPlatform, the international smart card specification organization, has launched a Device Application Security Management (DASM) Specification, which will facilitate dynamic pre and post issuance application download to GPD/STIP* EFT/POS terminals.
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Quic Sales Executive
QuIC Financial Technologies, a provider of risk management, pricing and financial analytics solutions,has appointed of Nigel Sirett as Senior Sales Executive. Nigel is an experienced executive in international risk management solutions for major financial institutions, and joins QuIC in the company’s London office.
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ACI Worldwide Awards
ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: TSAI), a provider of software for electronic payment systems, has been awarded four best-of-class awards by Aite Group in their recent cash management report, “Evaluating the Leading Providers of Cash Management Technologies: New Strategies and a Changing Competitive Landscape.” ACI’s online banking solution, ACI Enterprise Banker™, was recognised as best-in-class in the following categories: Most Large and Mid-Size Bank Deployments, Greatest Depth of Functionality, Best New Release of a Solution, and Most Innovative New Product Feature.
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Blame It On Alpha
Blame it on alpha but according to TABB Group in its newest research note, “Cross-Asset Trading Systems: Controlling the Trader’s Desktop,” traders on both the buy-side and sell-side need trading systems that can manage the increasing complexity of the global financial markets, allowing them to manage complex, cross-asset transactions involving cash equities, fixed income, derivatives and currencies. “Access to markets throughout the world, many with different trading protocols and market structures, will become imperative, feeding the alpha-seeking beast,” writes Andy Nybo, senior research analyst at TABB Group and author of the note.
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Thales and Faster Payments
11 of the 13 Faster Payments member banks have purchased Thales HSM to secure Faster Payments Services
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BT Trading Research
BT, a leading provider of converged trading communications, and Aite Group, a leading independent research and advisory firm, today announced the results of a survey regarding the level of integration across different trade communication tools and the importance of collaboration to improve overall productivity of the trading desk. More...
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CB.Net Accepted as EBA Member
CB.Net, a payments reference data provider, has been accepted as an associate member of the Euro Banking Association (EBA). The EBA invited CB.Net to apply for associate membership following an earlier announcement that the company was chosen by the EBA to be the official registry provider for the Priority Payments Scheme (PPS), launched at EBA day in Rome.
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Peruvian Central Bank Live With Incentage
The Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP) has gone into production with its international payments system using Incentage’s Middleware Suite as their “intelligent glue” between their Host and the SWIFT network infrastructure. The project was realised with OdinTech in Lima, Incentage’s country representative for Peru.
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Cofunds joins Broadridge for mutual funds order
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), formerly ADP Brokerage Services Group, has announced that it is now working in cooperation with Cofunds, the fund administration service provider, to enable UK retail and private client users of its Tarot solution to place orders for mutual funds.
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Who Owns SIPPS
Rhyme Systems, a leading provider of asset management solutions, today announces key findings from its industry SIPPs seminar, held last week in Tower 42 entitled, “Who Owns the SIPPs Assets?” The seminar featured a senior industry panel and explored the fast emerging SIPPs market, asking which industry firms will compete for a share of this market and which macro-factors such as economics and regulation will drive key market changes?
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PNC Wealth Upgrades
PNC Wealth Management, one of America’s largest wealth management firms, has upgraded to First Rate’s Advisor® performance reporting solution. First Rate Advisor® is a Web-based tool used primarily for analysis and reporting investment performance. More
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Hargreaves Vale Live with InVantage View
Independent stockbroker, Hargreave Hale, has gone live with Investmaster's InVantage View - allowing all of its discretionary and investment managed clients access to their own portfolio statements from the Internet.
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QlikView Award
QlikTech, a provider of in-memory analysis and reporting solutions, announced today that QlikView, the company’s flagship business intelligence product, earned the ‘Best Midmarket Software Solution’ award at the annual Gartner Midsize Enterprise Summit East.
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Codefarm Appointment
Edward Hagerty, a seasoned financial software development manager has been appointed as Head of Product Development, one of his main priorities will be to accelerate the development of product features in response to customer requirements.
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Third Financial
Third Financial has today been launched to make controlling private equity investments in the financial software and services space.
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SAS Operational Risk Award
OpRisk & Compliance magazine, a leading operational risk management and compliance publication, has named SAS® OpRisk Management as a first-place recipient in the magazine’s First Annual Compliance Software Ranking.
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TD Goldman Sachs Connectivity
TD Securities, the largest liquidity provider in the Canadian market place, announced today a new integration to Goldman Sachs' premier electronic trading platform, REDIPlus(R). This connection allows Goldman Sachs' clients to access the TD Newcrest suite of equity algorithms and enables direct market access (DMA) through REDIPlus or through a FIX connection. TD Newcrest currently has seven algorithmic strategies available that are specific to the Canadian market.
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SimCorp Pre-sales
SimCorp Asia has appointed David Stieger as chief pre-sales consultant reporting to director of sales and marketing Nick Quin.
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Cognito Non-Executive Director
Cognito, the financial communications agency has appointed Peter Rawlins as non-executive director. A former CEO of the London Stock Exchange, Peter was previously managing director of the Lloyd’s insurance group Sturge Holdings PLC, and managing director of Siegel & Gale, a leading corporate communications consultancy.
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ACC Completes Fineos Roll-out
The final wave of New Zealand's Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) users has gone live on the FINEOS Claims solution.
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Harte-Hanks Appointment
Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE: HHS), has appointed Stephen Drees to the company as managing director for financial markets. Drees will lead the financial markets organization of Harte-Hanks which assists the company's clients in the financial services sector as they develop and implement direct marketing, database and customer optimization strategies.
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Sarasin Chiswell Appoints Bank of New York
The Bank of New York has been appointed by Sarasin Chiswell, the London-based specialist investment management firm that is 75% owned by Bank Sarasin, to act as global custodian for 2bn pounds Sterling of client assets.
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41st Parameter Win With Abercrombie
Abercrombie & Fitch has selected FraudNet™ fraud detection solution from the 41st Parameter to support business growth strategies in an environment of increasing online commerce. Abercrombie & Fitch chose FraudNet over competing products for its strong anti-fraud capabilities, the ability to scale as the Company continues its international expansion, and The 41st Parameter's deep domain expertise. The retailer operates eCommerce websites at www.abercrombie.com, www.abercrombiekids.com, and www.hollisterco.com, as well as Abercrombie & Fitch, Abercrombie, Hollister and RUEHL stores throughout the United States, Canada and London.
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Mirabaud Dubai Move
Mirabaud has been granted approval by the authorities of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) to establish a company providing wealth and asset management for private clients in Dubai.
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Xactly Stevie Award
Xactly Corporation, (www.xactlycorp.com), a on-demand sales compensation management and sales performance management vendor, won a Stevie Award for Best New Company Up to 100 Employees in The 2007 American Business Awards.
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SunGard Expands Margin Advisor
Sungard has expanded the risk-based, global capabilities of its Margin Advisor solution for real-time monitoring of cross-asset credit and margin risk
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Lehman Profits Up 27%
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (ticker symbol: LEH) todayeported record net income of $1.3 billion, or $2.21 per common share (diluted), for the second quarter ended May 31, 2007, representing increases of 27% and 31%, respectively, from net income of $1.0 billion, or $1.69 per common share (diluted), reported for the second quarter of fiscal 2006.
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Allan Gray Signs For FundWorks
Allan Gray has licensed and will be implementing FundReports, FundWorks’Enterprise Client Communications and Reporting platform. Allan Gray will use FundReports in South Africa for the production of Monthly, Quarterly and Ad Hoc Client Reports for its Institutional clients.
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Brady Non-Exec Director
Brady plc (BRY) a supplier of software solutions for commodity trading is pleased to announce that Paul Fullagar has been appointed to the Board as Non-Executive Chairman.
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ICE Improves CBOT Offer
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) today announced that it has resubmitted its merger proposal to the Chicago Board of Trade (NYSE: BOT), with a number of enhancements.
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BNY ConvergEx Leverages Eze Castle
BNY ConvergEx Group, LLC, a premier provider of agency brokerage and investment technology solutions, announced today that Eze Castle Software (ECS) has launched a single-system OMS that includes global EMS capabilities.
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Exstream Cited
Exstream Software, Inc. today announced it has been named a leading provider of insurance document management solutions by Boston-based Celent, LLC for a third consecutive year in the latest edition of its “Insurance Software Deal Trends 2005-2006” reports published this month.
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