Financial Data Management and Control
Integrated Features for Market Events and Market Data Maintenance
Security Master Certification
The QED platform automates maintenance of Security Master and referential data. This web-service integrates multiple market data sources to deliver "Gold Copy" security master data to the accounting platform and ensures your portfolio representations are accurate.
Full context integration throughout the platform gives you immediate reference to security master records while reviewing position holdings, transactions, and capital events. Point and click access allows you to easily research and trace events across portfolio records ensuring consistency throughout your portfolio universe.
Corporate Actions Entitlement
Corporate actions and other capital events are delivered to the QED platform as announcement data is released. Both mandatory and discretionary actions are provided including identity changes (e.g., security identifier, name, and ticker symbol), mergers, acquisitions, splits, distributions, spin-offs, redemptions, dividends, schedules, rate changes, quality ratings updates, and recapitalizations. Even news events such as shareholder meetings, approvals, and resolutions are memorialized in the issue record for notification and reporting.
Corporate action announcements are retrieved daily and delivered to you from QED's market data service powered by Interactive Data (Xcitek) and Exshare Financial and include narrative with the event terms and conditions.
Discrete transaction and news events are recorded on the security issue master and actionable events may be automatically posted across your portfolio holdings on a entitlement basis determined for each account.
The QED platform automates your mandatory corporate actions, administrative tasks, and routine portfolio maintenance operations. Now you can process corporate actions interactively or automatically across accounts as defined by your business rules. Even complex, multi-part events can be routinely managed with minimal intervention.
Fair Value Pricing and Mark-to-Market
Comprehensive, multiple-vendor market data management and fair value evaluation are integral features of the QED platform.
Pricing hierarchy rules definable at the account level allow you to maintain and reference an unlimited number of sources for securities pricing. And, you may elect exclusive or preferred pricing business rules and selected references to pricing sources when generating reports, building queries, evaluating performance returns, and establishing net asset values.
The database can maintain data for the known universe of approximately 3.5 million listed securities for your current and historical investment positions – all of which may be automatically or manually updated on an intraday publication basis.
Indicative and reference data including asset classification, country and currency designation, cross-reference identifiers (SEDOL, CUSIP, ISIN, etc.), interest rate schedules, feature schedules, and more may be populated using independent, commercially available data sources such as Interactive Data, JJ Kenny, S&P, Bloomberg and other ECNs, custody bank systems, or data files received from virtually any third party source.
Delivering Critical Data for Your Business Processes
The QED platform is configured to automatically retrieve the critical market data required for your portfolio accounting and analysis processes. Web services tools allow you to interact with QED market data services to retrieve, update, validate, and record market data including:
- Corporate Events and Issue Level Actions
- Securities Pricing
- Security Master and Referential Data
- Quality Ratings
- Foreign Exchange Rates
- Classifications
