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J.P. Morgan Securities Australia Opts for XcitekSolutionsPlus

J.P. Morgan Securities has gone live with the XSP corporate actions software from XctekSolutionsPlus at its Australian office. The firm already used XSP at its offices in London and Hong Kong. By...
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DSTi Adds Bond Attribution Module to HiInvest Portfolio System

DST International has added a fixed-income attribution module to its HiInvest portfolio management system product suite. The system will be marketed as a standalone product, alongside existing...
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Royal Bank of Scotland Subscribes to Lombard Risk’s Credit Verifications

Royal Bank of Scotland has subscribed to Lombard Risk Systems’ ValuSpread Credit credit pricing verifications service. ValuSpread has been designed to monitor credit default swap prices for...
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Stop Press: S&P Teams with Mark-it On Project Red, Plans Bond Service

As Reference Data Review went to press, Standard & Poor’s Cusip Service Bureau announced that it was teaming up with Mark-it Partners to develop a numbering system for its entity database,...
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Barra Broadens Coverage of Cosmos Bond Portfolio System

Barra has expanded the coverage of its Cosmos bond portfolio management system to include a wider range of securities and benchmarks. The new version – Cosmos 3.1 – has broader U.S. fixed-income...
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Eaton Vance, J.P. Morgan Fleming Sign Up for FT Interactive Data Fair Value

Eaton Vance Management and J.P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management have signed up for FT Interactive Data’s Fair Value Information Service. The investment management firms will use the service to...
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Former Thomson Sales Head Lait Emerges at Standard & Poor’s

Standard & Poor’s has hired Sue Lait, former European sales director at Thomson Financial in London, to lead sales and support for S&P’s investment services business. Lait spent nine years at...
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Eagle’s Riley to Retire at End of Year

Eagle Investment Systems’ chief executive, Jack Riley, will retire at the end of the year, 13 years after co-founding the company. David Palten, another co-founder and currently president of Eagle,...
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Telekurs Adds Three to U.K. Sales Operation

Telekurs (UK) is continuing with its spate of hires in the sales area, adding three to its sales team based in London. Reto Baumann, a seven-year Telekurs veteran, has relocated from Tokyo to become...
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FISD’s Atkin Sets Landscape for Data Standards Initiatives

In his update to the London reference data community earlier this month (Reference Data Review, August 2003), Financial Information Services Division (FISD) director Mike Atkin took the opportunity...

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