Xenomorph Builds Out TimeScape with Aqumin Visual Data Landscapes
Xenomorph continues to build out its TimeScape risk analysis and data management platform with the integration of Aqumin’s AlphaVision visual data landscape environment. The company has offered TimeScape with integrated data charts and 3D graphs for about 18 months, but in search of a more sophisticated visual data solution for large, real-time datasets, looked across...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: To Utility and Beyond!
Another penny has dropped in the onward march toward outsourced enterprise data management. UBS’s decision last month to outsource its securities reference data to iGate, which is using Markit’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solution – the former Cadis Software – to manage the data, fulfils a strategic intent to industrialise processes where possible. Perhaps more...
BBVA Selects Markit EDM as a Central Hub for its Enterprise Data
BBVA Asset Management has selected Markit’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform to centralise and streamline its data. Markit secured the contract after a competitive selection process including workshops and a final proof of concept. The platform will replace a mix of point-to-point and in-house developed data management solutions and will act as a central hub...
Debate Argues the Case for an Investment Book of Records
Vendors have begun to develop Investment Book of Record (IBOR) solutions and in-house teams are beginning to build them, but issues around what an IBOR should look like, how it should work and whether it will deliver benefits remain open to question. Ian Hunt, a consultant and subject matter expert working with M&G Investment Management...
Fitch Solutions Extends its Use of LEIs and Monitors Global Adoption
Fitch Solutions has extended its adoption of pre-Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) by adding the codes to unrated entities. The company has been adding pre-LEI codes to Fitch rated issuers and debt issues since early this year and is making all its LEI data available on the Fitch Ratings website and in its data feed products,...
SIX Financial Information Takes Solvency II Compliance Solution to Market
SIX Financial Information has brought together the reference data requirements of Solvency II to deliver a compliance service that is available immediately and is being implemented with initial insurance clients ahead of take-up among asset managers. The service uses reference data already owned by SIX Financial Information as well as some new attributes. These include...
OpenGamma Includes Redis In-Memory Technology in Margining Platform
OpenGamma has the Redis in-memory data management technology with its own analytics and risk engine to create a margining platform offering. The new platform is designed to support fast and precise calculations, allowing clearing members to meet the initial margin calculation requirements of central counterparties on OTC swap transactions. OpenGamma developed the new margining platform...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The CDO Complex
Quietly, amid our industry’s X-Factor-like preoccupation with the comings and goings at NYSE Technologies (Robson, Roche, Wombat, NYFIX – all going), there have been some equally significant human capital movements within the reference and enterprise data space. Most notably, perhaps, is that Barclays has named a group chief data officer. And this is no ordinary...
SIX Financial Information Adds Bloomberg Global Identifiers to Data Feeds
SIX Financial Information has incorporated Bloomberg Global Identifiers (BBGIDs) into its Valordata Feed and plans to do the same for its Market Data Feed, a development that adds Bloomberg Open Symbology to more than 30 security identification schemes already supported by the company. BBGIDs are available immediately and at no extra cost within the Valordata...
Xenomorph Extends Reach of TimeScape into Commercial Banking Sector
Xenomorph has extended the reach of its capital markets data management and analytics solution TimeScape into the institutional and commercial banking sector through an arrangement with client engagement platform provider i2i Logic. i2i Logic, a start-up company, is using the cloud version of Xenomorph’s TimeScape, which runs in the Windows Azure cloud, and Xenomorph’s recent...