Press Releases

Corporate Actions Industry Report concludes SWIFT has limited benefit in the Retail Market London, UK 19th January 2010 - B.I.S.S. Research, the exclusive research company offering a unique benchmarking of services and systems in the financial services sector, today announced the publication of ‘The Corporate Actions 2009 Industry Report' a comprehensive review of the current issues affecting corporate actions globally. click here to read above press release

SmartStream Technologies new TLM Corporate Actions system gains industry approval   London, UK 15th December 2009 - B.I.S.S. Research, the exclusive research company offering a unique benchmarking of services and systems in the financial services sector, today announced that the new TLM Corporate Actions system from SmartStream Technologies is the latest to receive the B.I.S.S. industry accreditation. The benchmarking was conducted after a significant upgrade of the TLM system resulting in a number of impressive new design features... click here to read above press release

Information Mosaic achieves record scores in corporate actions benchmarking London, UK 12th November 2009 - B.I.S.S. Research, the exclusive research company offering a unique benchmarking of services and systems in the financial services sector, today announced that camaTM from Information Mosaic has achieved the B.I.S.S. 2009 Corporate Actions System Accreditation with record scores. The industry panel were fulsome in recognising the all round strength of camaTM to provide full corporate actions processing functionality... click here read above press release

Vermeg's MegaCor® Tops for Notification London, UK 06th October 2009 - B.I.S.S. Research, the exclusive research company offering a unique benchmarking of services and systems in the financial services sector, today announced that Vermeg's corporate actions system MegaCor® has achieved the 2009 B.I.S.S. Accreditation.   The independent, corporate actions, industry panel, highlighted in their scores several notable features of MegaCor® but made particular distinction in its notification functionality. The notification functionality in a corporate actions system is one of the prime requisites and MegaCor® impressed with the quality of its solution.   The resulting benchmarking report also outlines the potential of the system to support a wide range of different business sectors and types of services.... click here to read above press release

B.I.S.S. Research announces partnership with Endeavour Events London, UK, 22nd June 2009 - B.I.S.S. Research, the exclusive research company offering a unique benchmarking of services and systems in the financial services sector, today announced that it has reached an agreement with Dutch based Endeavour Events to collaborate on a series of pan European Summits. Each Summit’s agenda will highlight problematic areas for financial services and will conclude with a solution. The first summit will focus on International Corporate Actions and the many problems suffered by the Issuers and the Market, in the costs, risks and inefficiencies throughout the supply chain........      click here to read above press release

New Corporate Actions Advisory Service launched  London, UK 29th April 2009  – B.I.S.S. Research today announced that it has commenced a Corporate Actions Advisory Service for financial services firms and vendors with products in the Corporate Actions space.  Gary Wright, C.E.O., B.I.S.S. Research and creator of the B.I.S.S. business benchmarking concept said    “We have been benchmarking corporate actions systems for over seven years and built an unparalleled knowledge of systems available in the market. Over the years our advice and knowledge has been sort by a number of financial services firms looking to select a Corporate Actions system for their business. It seems logical that this offering now joins the B.I.S.S. portfolio of services. We have also been advising various vendors involved in Corporate Actions development and this too now become part of our services..... click here to read above press release

Settlement Systems benchmarking launched  London, UK   7th April 2009 - B.I.S.S. Research, the exclusive research company offering a unique benchmarking of services and systems in the financial services sector, today announced the launch of its ‘Settlement System' Benchmarking. The benchmarking includes tests to measure systems functionality to meet the many changes taking place in post trade operations and those that support client services, which are increasingly under close regulatory scrutiny...... click here to read above press release