Corporate actions
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.
Michael Shashoua: Game of Global Communication
Risk is a growing concern for corporate actions, but will that be enough to push through improved messaging standards? Michael thinks this should translate into a consensus for action.
Markit Evaluates Corporate Actions Service Acquisition
The data services provider will be asking users of the Global Corporate Actions Validation Service, just acquired from DTCC, what new data sets and coverage should be added
IRD's Editor on Risk and the Drive to ISO 20022
With risk management being the biggest driver for corporate actions processing improvements, that ought to translate to support for the ISO 20022 messaging standard
Risk Waiting
Will concern about reducing corporate actions exposures be enough to push the industry toward advancing the ISO 20022 messaging standard?
Taking Action Against Asian Fragmentation
The diverse nature of the Asia-Pacific region has long caused problems for the timely processing of corporate actions data. Nicholas Hamilton finds out how market participants manage these challenges and what is being done to improve standardization and…
EDI, OTC Markets Group Partner On Corporate Actions
The data vendor and operator of marketplace platforms have teamed up to provide corporate actions data on companies trading on OTC Markets Group's OTCQX, OTCQB and OTC Pink marketplaces
IRD Awards Results
The results of the Inside Reference Data Awards for 2013 were announced at a dinner in New York on May 21
Corporate Actions special report
May 2013 - sponsored by: Fidelity ActionsXchange, SunGard, Thomson Reuters
Information Mosaic Launches IMValue
The post-trade financial services software provider's new suite of performance indicators and analytics aims to automate extraction of corporate actions information to better indicate risk
Rising Enthusiasm for New Data Sources
Features in the April issue of Inside Reference Data find a common subtext of identifying new sources and types of data that are catching on
Judging When To Take Exception In Processing
The establishing steps of corporate actions are more conducive to automation, participants in a webcast said, writes Michael Shashoua
IRD's Editor on Corporate Actions Automation
Inside Reference Data's recent webcast on corporate actions raises questions on automation of processing
Corporate Actions Processing's Slow Boil
A conversation about corporate actions processing raises more questions about the progress of automation
Corporate Actions Webcast: Feeling the Heat of Automation
During a webcast about corporate actions on March 25, participants discussed efforts to automate corporate action to help mitigate risk, the value of cloud resources and outside hosting for corporate actions processing, the challenges in automation, and…
Danish Bank Chooses SmartStream for Corp Actions Processing
The software vendor says its TLM Corporate Actions product will help Ringkjøbing Landbobank transform the management of corporate actions into an exception management process rather than a manual one