NYSE Technologies Promises Consolidated Tape for European Equity Markets
NYSE Technologies’ plans to develop a consolidated tape for European equity markets should come to fruition in the third quarter of 2011, when the company will deliver a service aimed at providing broad access to post-trade market data at a lower cost than today. The tape is a response to the current MiFID debate on...
Goldman’s Perry Highlights Instrument Data Challenges of the OTC Derivatives Reforms Within Dodd Frank
The reform of the OTC derivatives markets as part of the US Dodd Frank Act will likely cause a whole heap of instrument identification challenges, according to Jim Perry, vice president of product data quality at Goldman Sachs. Speaking at last week’s FIMA conference in London, Perry indicated that the central clearing of these products...
Xtrakter’s New Reference Data Capabilities Attract First Client
Xtrakter, a provider of capital markets data, trade matching and regulatory reporting, welcomes TFG Fund Services as the first client to access Xtrakter’s recently launched reference data product, known as XREF. Xtrakter, part of the Euroclear group since 2009, now offers a rich and detailed source of static data on over 300,000 different fixed income...
Paul Capital Selects SunGard’s Investran Data Exchange for Investor Reporting
Paul Capital, a global private equity firm, has selected SunGard’s Investran Data Exchange solution to manage the firm’s investor reporting processes. Investran Data Exchange is a web-based, multi-directional portal that provides document management, reporting and workflow solutions to assist alternative investment firms in their fundraising, investor relations, portfolio monitoring and M&A processes. Investran Data Exchange...
US SEC Adds More Data Requirements to its Proposed Hedge Funds Rules
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has added a further set of data disclosure requirements to those it is proposing for the hedge funds market as part of the Dodd-Frank reforms. Under the proposed reforms, more organisational and operational information will be needed for SEC registration purposes from investment advisers and the private funds...
Datanomic Set to Dominate AsiaPac Risk and Compliance Screening Market with Comprehensive Japanese and Chinese Text Matching
Risk and compliance screening and enterprise data management specialist, Datanomic, today announced its intent to dominate the AsiaPac market with the enhancement of transliteration capabilities for its dn:Director for Sanctions & PEP (Politically Exposed Persons) Screening solution through an extended partnership with the CJK Dictionary Institute (CJKI), one of the world’s leading providers of Chinese,...
SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Exfeed Publish Consultation Paper on Reference Markets
SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Exfeed have published their questionnaire to consult with market participants and regulators on the significance of reference markets for securities and the rules which should govern them. All stakeholders are invited to give their valuable input until 30 November 2010. Link: http://www.six-swiss-exchange.com/download/participants/consultation.pdf The issues raised can broadly be split into...
Principia Exposes Gaps in Structured Finance Investors’ Risk Oversight as ABS and MBS Trading Increases
Principia Partners, a solution provider for the management and administration of structured finance investments, today announced the findings of its structured finance investor due diligence survey. The results highlight increasing investor and issuer confidence in securitisation as an asset class, with 60% of investors stating they would increase their activity within the next 12 months....
Interactive Data Provides Wide Range of US Bond Data to iPortfolio Solutions
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that it is delivering a wide range of US bonds data to iPortfolio Solutions. iPortfolio (formerly MuniWorks) provides portfolio analytics and ancillary information on bonds issued in the US to investment product professionals, advisors and individual investors via a secure...
JWG Risk Research Recommends Firms Focus on Getting Workable Risk Datasets in Place
After two years of scrambling to assemble new regulatory reports, firms now have a brief window of opportunity to rethink the risk information capabilities they need to satisfy both customers and regulators. However, it does not appear that many are taking advantage of the chance to redesign their current risk architectures. ‘Getting risk information right’,...