CPL Collapses; DTCC’s Avox in Line to Scoop Up Assets
CounterpartyLink is rumoured to have collapsed after falling into financial difficulties and failing to find an investor. Data Management Review understands that DTCC’s Avox is in line to purchase certain assets, thereby eliminating a competitor from the entity data business. A letter was circulated to clients of CounterpartyLink today informing them of the news. It...
Global LEI Foundation and Regulatory Oversight Committee Address Data Quality and Hierarchy issues of Global LEI System
The Global Legal Entity Identifier System (GLEIS) is making significant progress as the Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) makes operational improvements to the system and the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) prepares a consultation paper on how hierarchy data can be added to the business card data already attached to LEIs. On the operational front, the GLEIF...
Broadridge Offers Multi-Tenant Managed Data Service with Focus on Data Quality
Broadridge has built on its experience of delivering managed services for reference data with the provision of a multi-tenant managed service that has a focus on data quality and is designed for both buy and sell side firms. The Broadridge Managed Data Service covers terms and conditions, pricing and valuations, and corporate actions data across...
Markit Plans to Build Corporate Actions Capability On Back of Information Mosaic Acquisition
Markit is back on the acquisition trail with this week’s announcement that it has agreed to acquire Information Mosaic, a provider of corporate actions and post-trade securities processing software – but Information Mosaic may not be Markit’s only acquisition interest as we have heard it is considering buying another well known data management company. Financial...
Danske Capital Implements AIM Software’s GAIN Applications
Danske Capital, the asset and fund management business of Danske Bank Group, is planning to implement AIM Software’s Gain enterprise data management applications to improve data quality in support of its ‘fit for purpose’ strategy. The company was looking for a solution that would discover and resolve data issues resulting from fragmented and incomplete data...
Bloomberg Hires Richard Robinson to Promote the FIGI
Bloomberg has added former Wipro Technologies executive Richard Robinson to its open symbology team. Robinson was hired this month and will work alongside Chris Pickles to raise awareness of the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), formerly the Bloomberg Global Identifier, that Bloomberg is promoting as a global standard for securities identification. Robinson has stepped into...
Bloomberg Responds to EMIR and MifID II Consultations With Call for Inclusion of FIGI in Reporting
Bloomberg has responded to a European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) consultation on European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) suggesting the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), formerly the Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID), should be used as an instrument identifier for reporting under the regulation. While the ESMA consultation opened on November 10, 2014 and closes today,...
Interactive Data’s Plans for Continuous Evaluated Pricing
Interactive Data, which has historically had strong roots in the back office with its end-of-day pricing services, has been ramping up to provide streaming evaluated bond prices in the form of its Continuous Evaluated Pricing (CEP) service and is seeking to expand its reach into core middle and front office functions within the financial enterprise....
Chris Pickles Takes a Leading Role in Bloomberg’s FIGI Campaign
Bloomberg is continuing its campaign to make the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), formerly the Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID), the world’s primary security identifier with plans to push the FIGI through the ISO standardisation process and showcase organisations benefitting from the use of the identifier. The campaign is being led by Chris Pickles, former head...
London Data Management Summit: Getting to Grips with Entity Data
Entity data management has moved up the agenda over the past year, driven by regulatory requirements, the establishment of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and, in some cases, a desire to centralise and provide enterprise-wide access to entity data. A-Team Group’s London Data Management Summit discussed the progress of entity data management, as well as...