Making the announcement today at the National Association of Pension Funds' Annual Investment Conference in Edinburgh Guy Jubb, Head of Corporate Governance, Standard Life Investments said that Standard Life Investments had always had a constructive dialogue with listed companies and
Visa International is using an application manufactured by SAP SAP NetWeaver to help corporations and their employees manage payments for business expenditures, automatically integrate related transaction data into enterprise systems, and increase the speed and lower the cost of expense
CMS WebView, a provider of systems and software for data distribution and management, is to open its first sales office in the USA. The Chicago based sales office, located in the financial district, will be staffed initially by senior representatives
OMHEX, the Nordic exchange and trading technology group formerly known as OM, has divested its Performance Measurement and Fund Report services in Finland. Through its HEX Integrated Markets division OMHEX will, however, continue to maintain and market the Mutual Fund
SunGard Investment Management Systems says it has added a new "exception manager" to its INVEST ONE mutual fund platform to monitor and detect potential processing exceptions including market timing and late trading violations. Fully integrated with INVEST ONE, the browser
One Tennessee company is digging its heels firmly into American soil and challenging other American companies to think carefully before they ship jobs offshore. They've come up with a novel solution hiring rural Americans. "Hire rural Americans before you ship
Carr Futures has appointed Fortis Bank Information Banking as their settlement agent for the Euronext derivatives markets. With the launch of C21 Derivatives on Euronext in September 2003, Fortis Bank Information Banking has introduced a new service for derivatives clearers
Front Capital Systems, part of SunGard, says Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten (BNG) has bought its FRONT ARENA system to support its interest rate derivatives, money market and structured loan activities. The bank is replacing its legacy structured loan system. A customer
The Bank of New York has hired a top performing investment team to manage US large cap growth equities for institutional clients. The team, formerly of Weiss, Peck & Greer, is led by C. Lennis Koontz, who will serve as
UK finance minister Gordon Brown has gone ahead with his plan to simplify the taxation of pensions in the UK. In his annual Budget, presented to Parliament today, he replaced all eight pensions tax regimes with a single regime, to