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Questionable Motives?
I’ve spent a lot of the first two months of this year discussing the Office of Financial Research (OFR) with various industry participants, but a recent conversation brought to light something that hasn’t yet been fully explored in my previous blogs: the US government’s real motivation for standardising legal entity identification, beyond tracking systemic risk....
2011 US GAAP and SEC Taxonomies Available
The 2011 US GAAP Taxonomy and related taxonomies maintained by the SEC are now available, and companies may submit their interactive data filings to EDGAR using these taxonomies. A listing of all taxonomies available for use, including the 2011 US GAAP taxonomy, is located at http://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/edgartaxonomies.shtml. The EDGAR validation and Previewer have been updated to...
Eagle Plans Revision of its Mission Statement to Reflect the Importance of ASP
Back in December, Eagle Investment Systems’ president and CEO John Lehner told Reference Data Review that the vendor would be focusing on bolstering its software as a service (SaaS) offering, adding new integration tools and increasing its global coverage this year. In order to reflect this work and the increased importance of its application service provider (ASP)...
Interactive Data Awarded Second Patent For Fair Value Pricing Of An Asset
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that it has been granted a second patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office for the fair value pricing of a financial asset. This patent extends this business process generally to securities that are not actively trading in a...
Bank of Beijing Undertakes New Initiative to Incorporate Accuity’s AML Solutions
Accuity, the leading provider of payment routing data, anti-money laundering (AML) screening software, and services, is pleased to announce that Bank of Beijing, one of China’s largest commercial banks, has selected Accuity’s Compliance Link and Global WatchList. Compliance Link, Accuity’s modular enterprise-wide interdiction screening solution, and Global WatchList, Accuity’s proprietary collection of sanctions, enhanced due...
ProFinance Chooses SIX Telekurs Data for its Bond Solutions Software
SIX Telekurs, a financial information provider is pleased to announce a partnership with ProFinance Services, a financial advisory firm providing financial research and investment solutions, that will bring together their experience in data collection and investment solution tools. Banks and non-banks will be offered innovative solutions for the analysis and selection of financial assets. Built...
ANNA’s Extension of the IGI Represents Serious Potential as the OFR’s LEI, Says WMD’s Heer
Markus Heer, managing director of German data vendor WMDatenservice (see his appointment to the role back in 2008) and vice chairman of the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA), reckons ANNA’s bid for the US Office of Financial Research’s legal entity identification standard stands a good chance, given its position as an ISO standard and...
Latency Monitoring Revs Up to Nanoseconds
“The Value of a Millisecond” – the title of a widely quoted April 2008 white paper by my esteemed industry colleague Larry Tabb – is now as obsolete a discussion as is the Renault F1 car that graced its cover. In the world of low latency – just as in F1 – three years of...
ANNA Highlights ISIN Developments and the Future of the ANNA Service Bureau and the IGI
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) is likely to be having a busy start to 2011: as well as providing its feedback on legal entity identification standards to the US Office of Financial Research at the end of January (OFR), the association has been working on a new version of ISO 6166, otherwise known...
Markit Calls for a Data Aggregator Within Swaps Data Repository Space
In its feedback to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) joint proposals regarding reporting to swaps data repositories, derivatives specialist vendor Markit suggests the industry needs a data aggregator in order to gather together the data spread across the various repositories in the market. This indicates that Markit may...