Wall Street Systems, the treasury systems specialists, have launched a new "hedge compliance module" to facilitate compliance with international hedge accounting standards such as FAS 133, IAS 39, AcG13 in Canada, and SAS 33 in Singapore. The new Hedge Compliance
Sun Microsystems has announced it has received notice from the NHS Director General of IT, Richard Granger, for the evaluation of Sun's Java Desktop System across the NHS. The evaluation could help bring an open, affordable and secure desktop solution
CScreen, an OTC trading platform enabling inter dealer brokers to electronically negotiate and trade complex financial instruments with their clients, is buying some technology from CMS Web View. To date, CScreen has gained a following mainly in the OTC equity
Charles River Development says AmerUs Capital Management has invited the firm to furnish it with electronic trading, order management, and real time compliance capabilities for its fixed income investment operations. AmerUs Capital Management is a subsidiary of AmerUs Group, a
Thomson Financial says Merrill Lynch has become the first international sell side financial institution to send indications of interest (IOI) and advertised trades (AT) via the new Thomson AutEx network using a single connection and the FIX protocol. This marks
ADP Wilco, a subsidiary of Automatic Data Processing, Inc., has announced a new tax processing and reporting service for banks and securities firms domiciled in Switzerland to service their German retail clients. The service, which uses ADP Wilco's Fitas platform,
Datamonitor (DTM.L), an independent market analyst, predicts that global enterprise spent on voice applications will increase by 196% over the next three years to nearly $1.6 billion by 2007, compared to only $540 million today. Datamonitor's report, Vertical Voice Applications
SunGard Corbel has released its newest 5500 applications, Relius Government Forms 5500 Enterprise and Omni Enterprise. Both systems are designed to gather and integrate data from high volume administration systems including SunGard's OmniPlus administration system, and completely automate the Form
Asset Control and WM Datenservice, a provider of data on German financial instruments, have agreed on the joint development of the VF1 feed interface for Asset Control data management solutions. This automated feed handler will map the VF1 feed in
Asset Control, the investment data integration provider, has introduced a cheaper and simpler version of its data vendor connectivity solution. AC SmartFeed is a what Asset Control calls a "plug and work solution for no hassle loading of data from