Thomson Reuters Details Growth of Due Diligence around Evaluated Pricing Providers
Thomson Reuters experienced a four-fold increase in due diligence meetings examining its role as an evaluated pricing provider in 2012, signalling growing pressure on financial firms to check the viability of their content providers and underlining extended expectations of transparency. Jayme Fagas, head of evaluated pricing, enterprise content, at Thomson Reuters and a speaker at...
Thomson Reuters Outlines Plans to Lighten the Burden of Symbology
Thomson Reuters has set out its store on symbology saying it does not support the promotion of new identifiers as a means of improving data management, but is keen to support industry standards and has plans to offer services such as symbology cross-referencing to ease the burden on data managers. The company documents the development...
StatPro Partners Interactive Data in Push to Extend Evaluations Data
StatPro has taken a leap forward in evaluated pricing data following a partnership with Interactive Data that integrates the data providers’ evaluation data on 2.8 million fixed income securities into StatPro’s Revolution cloud-based portfolio analytics solution. StatPro will continue to offer evaluated pricing for about 0.5 million global equity securities, bringing its coverage to 3.2...
Data Management Summit – the Challenges of Corporate Actions
Automating corporate actions and reducing risk associated with manual intervention is proving difficult to pin down as the financial services industry struggles with a lack of standardisation, a growing volume and complexity of events, and different regional interpretations of events. A panel discussion at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit grappled with the problems...
Data Management Summit – The First Wave of the LEI System
Peter Warms, head of product development for global data and symbology at Bloomberg Data Solutions tackled issues around legal entity identifiers (LEIs) at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit. He acknowledged the aim of a global LEI system to improve risk management and counterparty reporting, detailed industry challenges posed by the system and noted...
StatPro Selects SIX Financial Information to Support Equity Pricing Snapshot Service
StatPro has selected SIX Financial Information’s intraday pricing service to automate delivery of its delayed equity pricing snapshot service and expand the universe of data coverage within the service. The portfolio analytics specialist considered a number of potential partners before selecting SIX Financial Information on the basis of its high-quality data, and has dropped previous...
EDI Teams with Derivative Partners to Deliver Independent Valuation of Structured Products
Exchange Data International (EDI) has forged an agreement with Derivative Partners to offer an independent valuation service for structured products and complex derivatives. The service was introduced this week in response to increasing client demand for independent portfolio valuations designed to meet regulatory requirements for transparency. Zurich-based Derivative Partners provides daily valuations, calculating over 200,000...
Avox Passes One Million Entity Milestone with Plans for Further Growth and Additional Services
Avox has posed a 25% year-on-year gain in the number of entities it has validated, bringing its total database of entities with validated reference data to over a million. The million-entity milestone comes against the backdrop of the imminent launch of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) standard, which was the subject of last week’s...
Cusip Global Services Collaboration with DTCC in LEI System Brings Association of National Numbering Agencies into Play
Collaboration between Cusip Global Services (CGS) and DTCC to augment the latter’s role as a pre-Local Operating Unit in the global legal entity identifier (LEI) system brings the Association of National Numbering Agencies (Anna) back into play in LEI development. CGS is not only the issuer of Cusip numbers covering securities, issuers, obligors and guarantors,...
Experts Debate the Timeline, Benefits and Challenges of the Global LEI System
The expert panel on this week’s A-Team Hot Topics webinar on global legal entity identifier (LEI) expects the new standard to be fully operational by the end of 2013, as it builds momentum following next month’s official roll-out. With the establishment of a Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) early this year, the creation of a Central...