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News/Corporate actions
Nasdaq is to use blockchain technology to streamline proxy voting on companies listed on the US Exchange-held Tallinn Stock Exchange.
12 February 2016
Estimize, a US start-up that pools members' forecasts for earnings results at listed companies, has raised $1.2 million in funding and launched a crowdsourced mergers and acquisitions predictions platform.
27 March 2014
Financial data outfit Markit has acquired the assets of Global Corporate Actions Validation Service from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
17 June 2013
Fintech giant SunGard has acquired corporate actions automation specialist XcitekSolutionsPlus (XSP). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
07 January 2013
XBRL US has finalised its corporate actions taxonomy and made it available for use.
02 June 2011
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation says it will shut off corporate actions processing for all legacy file formats in 2015, as it begins testing of new ISO 20022 announcement messages with five user firms.
13 April 2011
Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) has agreed to participate in a new ISO 20022 corporate actions messaging pilot programme run by the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and financial messaging network Swift.
25 October 2010
XSP has launched a mobile application for corporate actions processing, enabling users to access notifications on the move and process responses and elections.
12 October 2010
Citi has signed up to pilot the use of XBRL for corporate actions in a bid to improve straight-through processing in the paper-prone events information market.
17 September 2010
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Swift and XBRL US have published a business case in favour of automating corporate actions messages.
17 June 2010
Fintech vendors Misys and SmartStream Technologies have formed a partnership designed to tackle risk control problems and inefficiency across the trade transaction lifecycle.
07 June 2010
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has released for public comment a first set of drafts of corporate action announcement messages under the international ISO 200022 format.
18 May 2010
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Swift and XBRL US have joined forces in a bid to improve communications between issuers and investors for corporate action announcements in the US market.
28 May 2009
Standard Chartered Bank is rolling out technology from US vendor GoldenSource to automate the creation of golden copy corporate actions notifications.
10 March 2009
Euroclear is to introduce a new set of ISO 200022-compliant messages for the exchange of corporate actions information and instructions between central securities depositories and issuer-appointed agents,
18 December 2008
The Finexpo - Risk & Transaction Management conference and exhibition has opened for registration. The event, on Thursday 5 February at The Brewery in London, will focus on the latest developments in risk management approaches, regulatory frameworks, data and transaction management solutions and clearing and settlement infrastructures.
28 November 2008
Australian financial software house GBST is to acquire London-based securities tech firm Coexis. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
05 November 2008
Canadian banking group Desjardins has signed a three year contract with London-based CounterpartyLink for the provision of legal entity data.
15 January 2008
Little progress has been made in standardising reference data and inconsistencies continue to pose a significant challenge for securities firms around the globe, according to a new TowerGroup report.
06 November 2007
A pilot scheme to collect and compare corporate actions announcements from multiple sources for client reporting purposes has been successfully completed by JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Service.
03 October 2007
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