Corporate actions
Wiener Börse Bows Intraday Corporate Actions Data to Grow Trader Appeal
Wiener Börse, the Vienna Stock Exchange, has released a new service designed to attract new investors to the region's markets, by providing data vendors, analysts, traders and index trackers with timely, intraday access to corporate actions data from…
New Approaches to Sourcing, Managing Corporate Actions Data -- Webcast
On July 8, Inside Reference Data hosted a webcast about how financial firms can make the sourcing and processing of corporate actions data more efficient and effective by adopting new approaches, such as the use of a data utility
DTCC Tests Corporate Actions Service
DTCC has begun testing of Corporate Actions Web, with plans to move all its users to the service by October. DTCC also is promoting greater migration to the ISO 20022 standard for corporate actions
Corporate Actions special report
June 2014 -- sponsored by Fidelity ActionsXchange, SIX Financial Information and WorkFusion
Actionable Material
Data quality, timeliness and standardization have become the most important traits for corporate actions processing. Michael Shashoua hears from industry experts on the challenges these represent
NYSE Plans Corporate Actions Data Changes
The exchange announced new information to be added to its corporate actions data services, and changes to licensing rules and pricing, taking effect September 1
Markit Plans Relaunch of Corporate Actions Service
Markit Corporate Actions will move to a web-based platform, offering more data sourcing flexibility and timelier processing
ICBC Financial Services Uses XSP to Adopt ISO 20022
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Financial Services is now using the XSPrisa software from SunGard's XSP business to process corporate actions in ISO 20022, rather than using the DTCC's CCF files
Impactful Actions
As regulatory pressure and the complexity of derivatives increase, Nicholas Hamilton explores why and how firms should monitor the impact corporate actions have on entities with which they have relationships
Singapore Exchange Upgrades Corporate Actions
The SGXNet data entry portal and SGXNews information delivery service will collect and distribute data using ISO standard messages starting March 24, moving away from PDF submissions
OneMarketData, WSH Partner on Added Functionality for Corporate Earnings
Tick data management and analytics provider OneMarketData has added Wall Street Horizon's single-stock events calendar data to its historical reference and pricing data repository, OneQuantData.
BBH Introduces New Corporate Actions Tool
Part of Brown Brothers Harriman's Infomediary platform, InfoAction will help institutional asset managers streamline their corporate actions workflow applications.
Markit's Chidsey on Plans for Corp Actions Validation Service at WFIC 2013
Ed Chidsey, managing director, global co-head of data services, at Markit explains that the data and services vendor is rebuilding the platform of the Global Corporate Actions Validation Service it acquired in June, at the World Financial Information…
Dolan to Lead Fidelity ActionsXchange
Will Dolan, who has held a few senior roles within Fidelity Investments since 2004, has been named head of Fidelity ActionsXchange
Russia's NSD Chooses GoldenSource for Corp Actions Repository
Russia's central securities depository has chosen GoldenSource's enterprise data management system to power a repository it is creating for corporate actions data
SunGard's XSP Expands to Singapore
SunGard announced that its XSP platform for corporate actions now has a sales and support office in Singapore. This comes on the heels of SunGard's December 2012 acquisition of XSP.
SunGard XSP Grows In Singapore
The corporate actions services provider is adding local sales and customer support personnel for its offerings
Moving Parts and Closing Gaps
Corporate actions professionals are looking at how to automate more complex pieces of processing these events, Michael Shashoua reports. Messaging standards and complex instructions and choices are key factors
IRD's Editor on Catalyzing Corporate Actions
Industry demand or a regulatory action will be needed to push through automation of corporate actions processing, an effort that has not yet reached critical mass in the industry
Battling Inertia In Corporate Actions
Automation efforts in corporate actions processing have stayed at stagnant levels, according to Inside Reference Data webcast surveys. Industry professionals are looking for a catalyst to spur improvements
IRD's Editor on ISO 20022 and LEI Developments
Support for the ISO 20022 messaging standard could be wavering in the industry. In contrast, a maneuver by the US Office of Financial Research could improve the LEI's prospects
LEI Up, ISO 20022 Down
If identifier and messaging standards were stocks, adoption of the legal entity identifier would be rallying, while the ISO 20022 messaging standard dropped. Support for adoption of ISO 20022 for corporate actions messaging is not appearing as strong as…
ISO 20022 Likely Stalled For Years More, Say Corporate Actions Execs
Efforts to phase out the use of the older ISO 15022 standard for corporate actions messaging on a worldwide basis are still failing to gain traction in the industry, executives from BlackRock and Barclays Capital said in a recent webcast
Corporate Actions: Off and Running -- webcast
Inside Reference Data gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on July 17, 2013 to discuss how financial services firms are managing the challenges of upgrades to messaging standards and increases in volumes and types of corporate actions events.