GoldenSource

Infobox_Company
company_type = Private
company_name = GoldenSource Corporation
company_
foundation = New York City, New York, USA (1984)
location_city = New York City, New York
location_country = United States
key_people = Mike Meriton, President & CEO
Marc Planquart, CTO
Greg Stockett, CFO
Mark Zill, EVP, Global Client Services
Tom Stock, SVP & Product Management

industry = Enterprise Data Management(EDM)
Financial Services
products = EDM Suites
Securities & it's Products
Customers
Counterparties
Positions
Architecture
num_employees = 400 (2007)
slogan = "Trust Your Data to work together"
homepage = http://www.thegoldensource.com/

GoldenSource Corporation, formerly known as "Financial Technologies International"," is a global software company, founded in 1984 and headquartered in New York, NY, with offices in London, England, Boston, MA, Pasching, Austria and Mumbai, India.

GoldenSource is a market leader in the Enterprise Data Management industry.

Products and services

GoldenSource provides Enterprise Data Management ("EDM") software and services to financial institutions globally. EDM allows its clients to collect, standardize, consolidate, and manage information about their securities and products, customers, transactions, and other operations, to better manage the distribution of critical data to business applications.

The company also offers tools for data modeling, securities data management, accounting, and position management.

Goldensource develops solutions that create a single, high-quality source and integrated platform of trusted data, to improve information quality and efficiency throughout an enterprise. It creates, validates, and publishes a trusted Golden Copy in real time and in multiple formats. Its data management solutions make it easy to access standard content from leading data vendors. It also has a unique ability to link product and entity information with real time transactions and positions, leveraging operational control into financial control.

GoldenSource has provided EDM solutions to domestic and international asset managers, banks, investment banks, broker/dealers, mutual fund companies, insurance companies, and global custodians and depositories, software companies, and internet-based financial services providers.

Management

Goldensource's management team includes Michael Meriton (President & CEO), Marc Planquart (Chief Technology Officer), Greg Stockett (Chief Financial Officer), Mark Zill (EVP, Global Client Services), Tom Stock (SVP, Product Management) and Thomas G. Seaman (Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of the Board of Directors). [http://www.thegoldensource.com/management.shtml]

Clients

GoldenSource's clients include Deutsche Bank, State Street, Northern Trust, HSBC, Franklin Templeton, OpHedge, CIBC World Markets, and Credit Suisse Asset Management.

Partners

GoldenSource has forged partnerships with a number of the world's technology and services providers, including CounterpartyLink, Ltd., Fujitsu Services, FT Interactive Data, Integra SP, Oracle Corporation, Reuters DataScope, Sunopsis, TCG Software, Telekurs Financial, and Volante Technologies, Inc.

EDM Council Establishment

The EDM Council is a not-for-profit business forum for financial institutions. It was created to enable senior officers responsible for data management to share information on the business strategies and practical implementation realities associated with effectively managing data assets on an enterprise-wide basis.

GoldenSource is one of the founding members and sponsorers of EDM Council, along with partners IBM, SunGard, Standard & Poor's, Cicada, Broadridge Financial Solutions, etc.

The Council has three core objectives:

1. Global EDM Meeting Ground: Provide an efficient mechanism for members to meet and interact with their peers as well as be an advocate for the objectives of EDM in both public and private forums;

2. Best Practices for EDM Implementation: Collect metrics, conduct research and document successful approaches/best practices to support the EDM execution objectives of members as they make the transition from managing data content on a business/data-silo (vertical) to an enterprise-wide (horizontal) basis; and

3. Manage the EDM Supply Chain: Specify requirements to external suppliers (data manufacturing and commercial objectives) and implement the core identification standards necessary to integrate data content into applications, report to business units/regulators and efficiently exchange data among counterparties (symbology, taxonomy and classification objectives).

Global Centres

GoldenSource Corporation is a truly global firm, with centres spread across three continents.Two in North America with head office in downtown New York in the lower manhattan, and second in Boston,MA. Two in Europe, one in Western Europe situated in the financial district of London, United Kingdom and other one is a Development Center in Linz,Austria in central Europe.Third centre is in Asia in India's financial capital,Mumbai.

*;New York City, USA:22, Cortlandt Street,New York, NY 10007+1 [phone] [phone] (Fax)

*;London, UK:3RD FLOOR,CARDINAL COURT,23 THOMAS MORE STREET,THOMAS MORE SQUARE, E1W 1YY, UK.+44 (0) 20 7977 6000 [phone](Fax)

*;Linz, Austria:Development Center Austria, A-4061 Pasching, Plus-Kaufstr.7+43 (0) 7229 76656 10

*;Mumbai, India:Plot No. 13A, Second Floor, Paper Box House, Mahal Industrial Estate, off Mahakali Caves Road, Andheri (East), Mumbai - 400 093.+91 22 6645 4000

Links

* [http://www.thegoldensource.com/ Goldensource home page]
* [http://www.edmcouncil.org/ EDM Council]
* [http://www.hoovers.com/goldensource-corporation/--ID__126641--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml?cm_ven=Biz_Dev&cm_cat=Google&cm_pla=Free&cm_ite=Factsheet Hoover's profile]
* [http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/126/126641.html Yahoo profile]
* [http://www.bobsguide.com/guide/vend/sfti.html Bobs Guide profile]
* [http://www.thegoldensource.com/files/EDM_Finextra_Report_Final.pdf "Issues in EDM"]
* [http://www.marketdata.sungard.com/press/press_060805.htm "IBM, SunGard, and GoldenSource launch EDM Council," 6/9/05]
* [http://www.financetech.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=168600782 "GoldenSource Partners With CounterpartyLink," 8/11/05]
* [http://www.thegoldensource.com/press_single.php?id=33&title=More%20Data%20Czars%20Needed%20to%20make%20EDM%20happen,%20%20CIO%20survey%20shows "Enterprise Data Management needs C-level champion to break the silo habit, Finextra survey shows," 2/6/07]
* [http://www.sys-con.com/read/368426.htm "Broadridge Launches New Global Reference Data Solution Powered by GoldenSource," 4/30/07]