FT Interactive Data Adds CPL To Avox in Entity Data Service
FT Interactive Data has made the first move to bolster the issue-to-issuer business entity data capability it launched in the spring, with a second strategic relationship with a third-party entity data provider, this time CounterpartyLink (CPL). The Interactive Data Corp. unit, which unveiled the entity data capability in April, using Deutsche Boerse’s Avox as its...
FTID Enters Business Entity Data Fray with Avox Deal
Getting in on the business entity data act, FT Interactive Data Europe has teamed up with Avox (formerly known as Azdex) to link issue to issuer and parent data. The deal brings them into the competitive realm of the likes of the Crosswalk joint venture and CounterpartyLink, and is in direct response to yet another...
Markit Credit Pricing and Reference Data Integrates with Charles River
Markit has teamed up with Charles River Development to integrate its credit pricing and reference entity data into the Charles River Investment Management System (IMS) for fixed income. Markit’s data will be consistently mapped and readily accessible throughout Charles River IMS for mutual customers. For Charles River’s clients, the deal will offer a “completely integrated...
Soliton Uses CPL Data to Add Credit Module to TimeSquare
Data management platform supplier Soliton Inc. has introduced a credit data management module for its TimeSquare system that combines credit risk ratings and issuer data with legal entity and counterparty data from CounterpartyLink (CPL). The new TimeSquare module rationalizes, stores and aggregates CounterpartyLink’s legal entity and counterparty data. The CPL data is then linked credit...
Markit Launches Synthetic CMBS Index with CDS IndexCo
CDS IndexCo consortium and Markit Group have launched CMBX, a synthetic index of U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) with an initial group of 14 market-making banks. Markit will serve as the central source of information about CMBX, and will utilize cashflows from Trepp. As with ABX, a home equity loan-linked index based on various asset-backed...
CIBC to Implement GoldenSource as Third Leg Of Counterparty Data Management Facility
CIBC World Markets has secured the final leg of its data management platform for handling entity data. The firm – the capital markets arm of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce – is implementing GoldenSource’s Customers and Counterparties solution at its New York offices as the central data maintenance and storage application in support of the...
Asset Control Enlarges On Standard Chartered Project
Asset Control has released details of its implementation of the AC PriceMaster platform at Standard Bank last year. The Hong Kong- and London-based bank announced last spring that it was live at four main offices with AC PriceMaster for management of market rates in support of its risk analysis activities (Reference Data Review, May 2005)....
CIBC Taps Cicada, CPL for Legal Entity Platform, Data
CIBC World Markets’ selection of Cicada and its CounterpartyLink (CPL) sister company to provide a comprehensive legal entity data sourcing and management platform marks the first public client win for the two Cicada Cos. siblings. The implementation is aimed at helping the Canadian bank support Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and meet other regulatory requirements. The initial...
Standard & Poor’s Introduces Enhanced Version of RatingsDirect
Standard & Poor’s has introduced an enhanced version of RatingsDirect, its real-time online credit ratings and research solution aimed at credit/research analysts, credit risk managers and portfolio managers. Highlights include expanded credit research and ratings coverage, redesigned ratings pages, a new Quick view menu, and enhancements to the e-mail alert system. RatingsDirect enables investment professionals...
Aozora Adds Counterparty Data To GoldenSource Implementation
Aozora Bank of Japan has added GoldenSource’s Counterparty Solution to the broad data management platform it is currently implementing across all of its operations. The Japanese bank last year selected GoldenSource’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Suite to provide the technology infrastructure for a centralized and cleansed repository for all types of reference data, including customer,...