S&P Capital IQ Adds Credit Ratings and Frequent Delivery to Xpressfeed
S&P Capital IQ has added Standard & Poor’s credit ratings to its Xpressfeed enterprise data feed, and upgraded the feed delivery from daily and monthly to near real-time, bringing static data into the near real-time world. Xpressfeed including the credit ratings has been on beta test for a couple of months and went live this...
Netik’s Rebrand to CoreOne Underscores Repurposing of Data Management Assets
Netik, the data management company acquired by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group in 2008, has rebranded as CoreOne Technologies to reflect its new lease of life as a data creation, processing and distribution company with products based on Netik technologies and repurposed proprietary capital markets platforms. The brand change has been led by CoreOne...
Markit Closes Cadis Deal, Rebrands as Markit EDM
Markit has completed the acquisition of Cadis, and will rebrand the data management platform under the Markit Enterprise Data Management banner. The company will sit alongside Markit’s other enterprise businesses, among them Markit Analytics, Markit Portfolio Management and Markit on Demand. As reported, CEO Daniel Simpson will continue to run the business. He’ll also join...
Asset Control Sees Broadening of Data Management Requirement in Japan
Asset Control’s decision to open an office in Tokyo – announced today – stems from a heightened level of interest both from the Japanese financial centre’s major banking institutions and the key service agents that provide trading-related capabilities to much of the domestic market. The data management platform provider has announced plans to bolster its...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: ReferenceDataReview 2.0
In case you hadn’t already noticed, we used our Data Management Summit on May 22 to introduce our new ReferenceDataReview.com website. We officially relaunched RDR – which we first introduced back in 2003, when reference data was no more than a twinkle in the financial data segment’s eye – last week. The response so far...
Bloomberg Coup as it Hires NYSE Technologies’ CEO to Spearhead Enterprise
In a coup for Bloomberg, the vendor has appointed Stanley Young, who was until very recently the CEO of NYSE Technologies, as head of the Bloomberg Enterprise Products and Solutions Division. Young’s jumping ship to Bloomberg is a blow to NYSE Euronext but another sign of Bloomberg’s serious intent to develop the enterprise area, coming...
BTG Pactual Transforms Data Management with Asset Control’s AC Plus
Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual is implementing Asset Control’s AC Plus data management solution to optimise data and risk management ahead of a major push into international markets. The implementation of the data management system, one of the first in Latin America, is under way with a deadline to finish the initial stage of the...
A-Team Data Management Summit: Grid, Big Data and Hadoop Lead March of Emerging Technologies
A round-up of emerging technologies at this week’s A-Team Data Management Summit found industry experts favouring grid and big data technologies as they strive to architect the data management platforms of the future. A panel discussion moderated by A-Team Group editor-in-chief Andrew Delaney looked first at big data, how it is perceived and managed, and...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Three Reasons to Be (Cheerful) at DMS
It’s taken a full week to recover from our Data Management Summit last week. More than 200 London market practitioners gathered to hear from a formidable cast of reference data and enterprise infrastructure characters. It was an action-packed day, with plenty of news you can use (or could, if you were there), earnest discussion, and...
A-Team Data Management Summit: Regulation and Business Mix as Drivers for On-Demand Risk Analytics Development
Regulation is driving change in the financial services industry, not least in the area of risk analysis where on-demand reporting is becoming a regulatory requirement as well as a management need and potential business opportunity. In response to regulatory change, the deployment of technology is changing, but what are the outcomes and how can financial...