Latest Corporate actions News: Finextra Research

ISS hires new head of global research

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance and proxy voting solutions to the global financial community, today announced the appointment of Georgina Marshall as Head of Global Research effective September 1.

21 July 2015

Company update/Corporate actions

Legal framework for Russia’s corporate actions reform approved

The year 2014 saw the launch of the corporate actions reform in Russia which was initiated by the Russian central securities depository and backed by securities market participants.

14 July 2015

Company update/Corporate actions

Markit closes Information Mosaic acquisition

Markit (Nasdaq: MRKT), a leading global diversified provider of financial information services, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Information Mosaic, a leading software provider for corporate actions and post trade securities processing.

01 July 2015

Company update/Corporate actions

NSD advances corporate actions data store

National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, and Neoflex, a leading provider of software and professional services in the sphere of information technologies in the financial markets, have completed a next stage of a large scale project aimed at expansion of opportunities for the NSD information services users to receive, store and process corporate data based on the GoldenSource 360° EDM platform.

19 May 2015

Company update/Corporate actions

Interactive Data to supply corporate actions feed to Tora

Interactive Data, a leading provider of independent evaluated fixed income pricing and reference data services, has been selected to provide an unprecedented range of corporate actions data for TORA Trading’s new Prism portfolio and risk management system.

16 April 2015

Company update/Corporate actions

Russia's NSD launches corporate action reform website

National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository (CSD), has launched a new website to gather feedback from its users about reforms to its corporate actions procedures.

27 March 2015

Company update/Corporate actions

Oxford Intelligence launches stock surveillance service

Oxford Intelligence Partners, LLC, a provider of specialized market intelligence and customized analytics to IR professionals, is pleased to announce it has launched an innovative stock surveillance service that includes proprietary methodology for delivering options intelligence to IROs.

06 February 2015

Company update/Corporate actions

Ipreo acquires shareholder data management outfit Shareholder InSite

Ipreo, a global leader of data, market intelligence and productivity solutions to capital markets and corporate professionals, today announced its acquisition of Shareholder InSite, the premier provider of shareholder data management, analytics, reporting and valuation solutions for Alternative Asset managers and private companies in their portfolios.

04 November 2014

Company update/Corporate actions

NSD initiates corporate actions reform in Russia

National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, a part of the Moscow Exchange Group, has initiated a program of corporate actions reform in the Russian market with the support of the regulator, issuers, registrars and clients. The reform is aimed at implementing new technologies and international standards on the basis of the electronic document interchange.

01 October 2014

Company update/Corporate actions

SunGard launches two new corporate actions products

SunGard has launched two new corporate actions products to help global financial institutions manage global event data and identify and control their risk exposure.

29 September 2014

News/Corporate actions

Estimize raises $1.2m; unveils crowdfunded M&A predictions platform

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

News/Corporate actions

Markit acquires DTCC corporate actions validation service

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

News/Corporate actions

SunGard buys XSP

Fintech giant SunGard has acquired corporate actions automation specialist XcitekSolutionsPlus (XSP). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

07 January 2013

News/Corporate actions

XBRL US launches corporate actions taxonomy

XBRL US has finalised its corporate actions taxonomy and made it available for use.

02 June 2011

News/Corporate actions

DTCC kicks off corporate actions pilot; legacy formats to be switched off by 2015

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

News/Corporate actions

DTCC signs BBH to corporate actions pilot, starts ISO20022 migration

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

News/Corporate actions

XSP launches corporate actions mobile app

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

News/Corporate actions

Citi to pilot XBRL for corporate actions

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

News/Corporate actions

DTCC, Swift and XBRL US make case for corporate actions automation

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

News/Corporate actions

Misys and SmartStream forge post-trade STP tie-up

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