S&P Capital IQ Builds Out Cross-Referencing Capabilities to Cover Entity Identifiers
S&P Capital IQ is addressing the need to cross reference emerging legal entity identifiers (LEIs) in a broad cross-referencing service covering over two million public and private entities that use standard and proprietary identifiers. The service is called the Business Entity Cross Reference Service and is designed to help users identify systemic and counterparty risk,...
CounterpartyLink Supports Client Data Off-Boarding to Improve Efficiency and Cut Costs
CounterpartyLink, a provider of global legal entity and counterparty data, has reversed the concept of client on-boarding with the offer of a client off-boarding service designed to help large financial institutions clean up their client databases, improve operational efficiency and reduce operating costs. The company has been working with a handful of clients to off-board...
A-Team Group Webinar Discusses the Trend Towards On-Demand and Real-Time Valuations
Regulators and participants in fixed income markets are calling for more frequent valuation updates, but an emerging trend towards real-time valuations will be neither universal nor useful for all securities. A webinar hosted last week by A-Team Group editor- in-chief Andrew Delaney, and joined by experts from Bloomberg, Interactive Data and S&P Capital IQ, discussed...
Exchange Data International Extends its Commitment to Emerging and Frontier Markets
Exchange Data International (EDI) has extended its commitment to emerging and frontier markets with a new office in Agadir, Morocco. The office will not only increase the company’s capacity to translate corporate actions data from French and Arabic speaking countries, but also act as the base for EDI’s first foray into macroeconomic data. The Agadir...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Valuations (Part 2)
As I mentioned last week, issues around establishing fair value for less liquid securities remain a focus for many in the financial data business. The marketplace has seen the emergence of highly specialised financial products over the past several years, and data practitioners are having to come to grips with how to deal with these...
SIX Financial Information Develops FundsFast Concept to Deliver Fund Income Data
SIX Financial Information is offering delivery of fund income information on a 15-minute frequency as part of a bespoke managed service that augments the functionality of its FundsFast current day fund prices service. The Fund Income Distribution service had a soft launch in the first quarter of 2013 and is now in production with many...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Valuations… But Were Afraid to Ask (Part 1)
Valuations are a hot topic in today’s increasingly regulated capital markets. Transparency is a prime concern, as are multi-sourcing of pricing data, timely delivery and the process for handling price challenges. And yet, getting to grips with the intricacies of the issues at hand remains elusive. Until now, that is. In the first of three...
Numerix Embeds ActivePivot In-Memory Analytics to Extend CrossAsset Server Capability
Numerix has embedded Quartet FS’s ActivePivot in-memory analytics technology into its CrossAsset Server enterprise analytics engine to deliver real-time analysis, aggregation and visualisation of the large volumes of complex data that result from CrossAsset Service calculations of market risk and counterparty credit risk and derivatives valuations. The partnership provides the first best-of-breed addition to Numerix’s...
GoldenSource Sets out LEI Store and Suggests an Entity Data Utility to Commoditise Compliance
GoldenSource is addressing the arrival of legal entity identifiers (LEIs) with its existing enterprise data management (EDM) software and the suggestion of a data utility that could commoditise compliance with regulations based on the LEI. The company has made its software LEI ready by allowing users to add LEI codes as additional or primary entity...
DTCC Plans Vendor Workgroup to Tackle Data Accuracy of the CICI and LEI
DTCC has responded to criticisms covering the accuracy and quality of CFTC Interim Compliant Identifiers (CICIs) it issues on behalf of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) saying data issues highlighted in a blog by data consolidator Alacra are the result of how business rules are being applied to entity registrations. Despite its defence, DTCC...