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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Three-Letter Acronym (TLA) Syndrome
Next week, as you may know, I’ll be heading to NYC and not for R&R. Our newest Brit on the Street (BOS) – Caroline Statman – and I will be doing the proverbial rounds of the reference data world to see what’s what and what will be what come 2013. It’s going to be a...
Chris Bannocks Joins Barclays to Head Up Global Reference Data
Chris Bannocks has moved on from the role of managing director, global head of enterprise data management at Nomura International to head up reference data at Barclays. Bannocks joined Barclays in London this week and takes the title managing director, global head of reference data. His responsibility is reference data on a global basis across...
CounterpartyLink Fattens Legal Entity Data Feed to Support Regulatory Compliance
CounterpartyLink is helping users of its legal entity data meet regulatory compliance and risk requirements with the addition of deeper beneficial ownership information and the inclusion of CFTC Interim Compliant Identifiers (CICIs) in its data feed. Additional data fields to support the extended information have been included in the legal entity database that CounterpartyLink distributes...
Calxeda Hires Niall Dalton and Geno Valente
Calxeda – developer of EnergyCore ‘system on a chip’ processors being pitched at big data applications – has hired Niall Dalton and Geno Valente, both of whom are well known in the financial markets space. Dalton has joined as chief software architect and will be based in the company’s soon-to-be-opened Sunnyvale, Ca. office. He was...
Invesco Builds Out Eagle Performance and Data Management Solutions
Invesco has completed the second implementation phase of Eagle Investment Systems’ performance measurement solution covering its retail and institutional business in the UK and continental Europe. The performance measurement system is complemented by Eagle’s Pace data management platform, which is being used to improve internal reporting across performance, holdings, transactions and risk metrics. The data...
Q&A: Dataminr’s Ted Bailey on Hotspots Among The Hashtags
Specialising in creating “actionable insights” for financial traders from the deafening noise that is Twitter, Dataminr recently made its own news by raising $13 million in Series B funding (for a total to date of $16 million). We spoke to Dataminr founder and CEO Ted Bailey to find out more about the company and its...
Tibco Scales Spotfire 5 In Memory; Partners with Teradata
Tibco Software has announced Spotfire 5, the latest version of its analytics platform, which leverages in-memory functionality derived from Tibco’s ActiveSpaces data grid to improve performance. Separately, the company has extended its partnership with data warehouse vendor Teradata. “Spotfire 5 is capable of handling in-memory data volumes orders of magnitude greater than the previous version...
Data Management: Time for a New Best Practice Model
By Nigel Pickering, Founder, www.ref-data.com Firms have been attempting the ‘data centralisation’ path for many years – yet few, if any, have truly succeeded in delivering a solution to the underlying drivers and objectives. Many will have concluded that integrating their core data is the route to managing reference and transactional data across the many...
MoneyMate Proposes Solution to Holdings Data Issues of Solvency II
MoneyMate’s introduction of a look-through and reporting utility, which will provide data connectivity between insurance companies, asset managers and third party administrators, is aimed to support insurers that must comply with Solvency II and asset managers that want to protect the investment strategies they are using while providing necessary holdings data to insurers and their...
European Commission Consults on Compilation of Indices and Benchmarks
The European Commission’s spotlight on data transparency has panned out to cover benchmarks and indices. Following the Libor scandal and the Commission’s move to amend proposals for market abuse regulation and criminal sanctions to clarify that any manipulation of benchmarks is illegal, it has issued a consultation paper on the production of benchmarks and market...