Rainier Investment Management is delivering improved and more timely data to its portfolio managers and traders as a result of switching its data source from an incumbent supplier to the Charles River data service and upgrading its implementation of the Charles River investment management solution (IMS).
Hong Kong-based CITIC Bank International has implemented Pricing Partners’ Price-it Excel derivatives pricing library to give its risk management team and derivatives business a clearer understanding of pricing and valuation around foreign exchange structured products.
Shell’s rolling deployment of the Cadis EDM enterprise data management platform will give the petrochemicals giant a centralised repository for collection, normalisation and distribution of all foreign exchange rates and curves globally. The treasury department deployment, initially in London but soon to be at a series of overseas locations as well, will support all treasury applications and more than 30 ERP systems across the company.
VTB Capital, the investment banking business of Moscow based VTB Group, has implemented Quantifi’s OTC analytics, pricing and portfolio valuation solution to support its recently established credit derivatives and hybrids trading desks, and to reduce risk.
M&G Investments first looked at establishing a new product master data solution for its 50-odd retail funds back in the summer of 2009 and, after a detailed and in-depth couple of years of background research and planning, it has finally rolled out the first phase of buy side data management specialist vendor MoneyMate’s DataManager solution. Conor Smyth, senior vice president of sales at MoneyMate, explains the details of the deal that began back in the summer of 2010, when the vendor successfully won the request for proposal (RFP) process.
National Australia Group (NAG) was engaged in a total of 22 data related projects last year, according to the group’s information architect Martin Campbell. Speaking at this month’s FIMA conference in London, Campbell discussed the decision to implement a new master data management system in partnership with software and consulting firm IPL in order to achieve greater consistency across the organisation and these tactically driven projects.
Earlier this week, GoldenSource indicated that longstanding client M&G Investments has upgraded its implementation of the EDM vendor’s platform (see the release 
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Emergence, the first seed capital fund introduced in France with support from Paris Europlace, has selected Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) to provide valuation and trustee services to NewAlpha Asset Management, the fund’s financial manager and selector of small asset managers that will form the fund.
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