AC Plus Desktop 3.0 provides a front-end for Asset Control’s AC Plus financial and reference data management software to help ensure data is available to downstream portfolio management, trading, compliance, risk, and other financial management applications, said Asset Control.

AC Plus Desktop 3.0 supports cleansing and validation workflows for differing organizational requirements.It displays transparency on the data’s origination and change history during processing, added Asset Control.

AC Plus Desktop provides operations and data cleansing specialists with an intuitive view of data as it enters AC Plus from multiple data sources. Its data browsing module lets users create sets of bookmarks and searches that can be re-used or modified at any time, as well as instant reports on data for exporting to Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. It also provides tailored views based on an individual’s specified criteria of specific asset classes.

Phil Lynch, president and CEO of Asset Control, said: The need for traders, portfolio managers and operations staff to have access to accurate, high-quality reference and market data in a timely fashion is more urgent than ever, in order to measure and manage risk and exposure, gain insight into opportunities, comply with new regulations, and increase operational efficiency. Our new AC Plus Desktop makes the cleansing and workflow process more efficient to ensure that the highest quality of data is available to users and downstream systems as quickly as possible to meet urgent business needs.