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Saudi International: Saudi International Bank in London has gone live with Management Data's Corona and Ares CS back office reconciliation systems.

Corona automates the bank's nostro and internal cash accounts, while Ares handles Saudi International's securities reconciliation, says a spokesperson for the Vienna-based systems vendor.

David Maskall, Saudi International's assistant manager of operations client services, says the installation of Corona and Ares has helped improve cost effectiveness and enhanced the bank's control of its operational risks.

Bank of Scotland: London-based TCA Consulting has completed a study for the Bank of Scotland on evaluating three rival netting systems in the foreign exchange industry.

However, the bank isn't releasing the results of the study, which examined the Echo, FX Net and Accord netting services. TCA used its Stab netting analysis tool during the project (RMO, May 6).

Tibco boost: Reuters' Tibco subsidiary has been named as the world's largest vendor of middleware messaging systems, according to an independent study of the market undertaken by the International Data Corporation.

The IDC study, entitled Middleware: 1996 Worldwide Markets and Trends, found that Tibco holds just over 25 per cent of the global middleware messaging market.

The study estimates the total value of the middleware market to be $879 million in 1995, and estimates it will grow by some 37 per cent annually over the next five years.

Applix Acquisition: Boston-based Applix, developer of the Unix-based Applix Real Time spreadsheet system, has agreed to acquire TM1 Software, a developer of on-line analytic processing (OLAP) database products.

An Applix spokesperson says the deal, worth some $11 million in cash and stock, is designed to boost the database analysis functionality of Applix's product range (Trading Systems Technology, November 1).

Daiwa manager jailed: Masa-hiro Tsuda, the former general manager of Daiwa Bank's New York office, was sentenced to two months in prison last month for his part in helping conceal Toshihide Iguchi's $1.1 billion bonds trading fraud (RMO, October 23, 1995).

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