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Opinion: MiFIR – Flat-Packed Furniture Without the Instructions?

By Matthew Coupe, director of sales and marketing, Redkite Financial Markets The proposed Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) has left me questioning what this piece of European regulation is actually going to achieve. Will the final legislation give the financial industry a set of clear-cut rules to follow and be accountable to? Or is...

Global Top Ten Asset Manager Selects XSPR v5 Corporate Actions Platform

XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions solutions, today announced that its newest client, one of the world’s top Asset Managers based in New York City, has selected the XSP v5 Corporate Actions automation solution. The recent client, with over US$700 billion in assets under management, will be implementing the XSP Data Management...

LBBW Takes Control if its Data with Xenomorph’s TimeScape

As part of its market data management project to improve the internal model for Market Risk calculations, LBBW (Landesbank Baden-Württemberg), one of Germany’s largest banks, has implemented Xenomorph’s TimeScape analytics and data management solution. TimeScape provides the bank with a high performance data management system which enhances risk management, delivers validated market data based upon...

Dow Jones & Company Live with Global Data from SIX Telekurs

Global news and business information leader Dow Jones & Company has selected SIX Telekurs as a preferred provider of market data and other financial information. Dow Jones’ key financial publications and websites, including The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and Barron’s, will carry market data delivered by SIX Telekurs. SIX Telekurs’ normalized streaming market data feeds...

Interactive Data Enhances International Content for Fund Administrators and Custodians by Further Enhancing Alliance with Bond Pricing Agency Malaysia

Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of independent pricing and valuation services, today announced that it has expanded its agreement with Bond Pricing Agency Malaysia Sdn Bhd (BPA Malaysia), a leading national bond pricing agency. Interactive Data is now distributing evaluated pricing for long-term Malaysian fixed income assets from BPA Malaysia. Demand for this content...

Celoxica Extends FPGAs to Transactions, HFT Futures

With the release of its latest Container offering, Celoxica – an early adopter of FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) technology for market data feed handling – is extending its functionality to handle transactional messages, such as outbound orders. The focus of this new functionality – says Celoxica president Lee Staines – is to support trading...

Swift’s Vandenreydt Elaborates on the Three Pillars of its Reference Data Strategy

Swift has broken its reference data strategy down into three main pillars: its response to the Sifma led, Office of Financial Research (OFR) sanctioned working group focused on developing a new legal entity identification (LEI) standard; its payments reference data efforts; and its (rather nebulous at the moment) securities reference data strategy. Fabian Vandenreydt, Swift’s...

Asset Control Launches Financial Data Collection Service to Optimize Sourcing Efficiency and Reduce Costs

Asset Control, provider of financial data management solutions and services, has enhanced its AC Plus data management platform by launching an on-demand instrument set-up module. The AC Plus Collection Service is a service-based solution that helps customers simplify and improve data accuracy in the complex new instrument set-up process. It also helps customers better align...

XSP Unveils eTRAN+ Customizable User Interface for Web-Based Notification and Response Capture Processing

XSP, the global leader in automated end?to?end Corporate Actions solutions, today at Sibos unveiled eTRAN+, its latest innovation for Web?Based notification and response capture. This next?generation widget is built leveraging the XSP GO!™ framework to provide clients with a customizable user interface to manage Corporate Actions notification and response processing. Its predecessor, the eTRAN (Electronic...

SWIFT Announces 16% Rebate on 2011 Messaging

SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,700 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, announced today a rebate of 16 percent on 2011 messaging usage. The new rebate will return approximately EUR 52 million to SWIFT users and will be paid in January 2012. This rebate comes in addition to a 20 percent...