Know Your Partner – Cicada on Counterparty Data
Following on from the risk data work it had conducted with clients, including a global insurance company, Cicada’s strategic alliance with risk management vendor Algorithmics – signed last spring (Reference Data Review, May 2003) – marked a milestone in the company’s foray into the world of risk. While Algo brought to the table its suite...
The Interview: Full Circle for EDI
Nearly a decade ago, a licence to distribute London Stock Exchange started Exchange Data International down the data aggregation route. RDR reports on how far they’ve come A little over two years ago, the phrase reference data was pretty much unknown. Today it is in danger of becoming one of those tick-box capabilities that suppliers...
Lending Data Mapped by iMonitor
Atlanta-based iLumen Inc. has released further details of its iMonitor automation system for customer lending data gathering and analysis. Currently in evaluation at several U.S. institutions, iMonitor will provide regular, up-to-date snapshots of lending operations and uses a proprietary data-mapping engine to standardize and map data input, conduct analysis and perform benchmarking. Full-scale rollout of...
London Stock Exchange Unveils Draft Pricing For Enhanced SMF
The London Stock Exchange has published a draft licensing and pricing policy for its enhanced Sedol Masterfile (SMF) service, to be introduced next year. The new proposals provide for a one-off enterprise licence priced at £50,000 a year, which will be cost-effective for a firm with four or more subsidiaries using greater than 10,000 Sedol...