Financial Information Forum Highlights the US$250m Cost of New Options Symbology, Finds Industry Dissatisfaction with Lack of Agreed Standards
The majority of industry participants are disappointed and frustrated that an agreement has not been reached on an alternative standard to the Options Price Reporting Authority (Opra) code, according to a recent study by the Financial Information Forum (FIF). Mary Lou Von Kaenel, managing director, management consulting at New York-based consultancy Jordan & Jordan, which...
LSE Migrates Sedol Masterfile onto UnaVista, Adds Broker Matching Utility
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has revealed plans to migrate its centralised reference and financial data management solution, Sedol Masterfile, onto UnaVista, its global matching, reconciliation, data integration and validation service. The exchange operator has also launched a new service for the central matching of post-trade data across prime brokers, executing brokers and hedge funds...
FOW Tradedata Launches MiFID Compliant Futures and Options Symbology
Originally appeared in MiFID Monitor Futures and options reference data vendor FOW Tradedata has added symbology for prescribed European futures and options markets under MiFID’s mandatory transaction reporting requirements to its Xymbology service of Alternative Instrument Identification (AII). Gregg Whitbread, product manager for Xymbology, explains: “It was a natural extension of FOW Tradedata’s service offering...
Cusip Launches Premium Level Cusip Access Modules and New Service for European Syndicated Loans
Cusip Global Services has launched two new services: a premium level version of Cusip Access for clients that require more advanced options for managing reference data and a new platform through which European agent banks can request Cusip or ISIN identifiers. Cusip Access is now available as a “premium level service” with additional functionality and...
Cusip Global Services Launches Premium Level Cusip Access Modules and New Service for European Syndicated Loans
Cusip Global Services has launched two new services: a premium level version of Cusip Access for clients that require more advanced options for managing reference data and a new platform through which European agent banks can request Cusip or ISIN identifiers. Cusip Access is now available as a “premium level service” with additional functionality and...
CUSIP Service Bureau’s New Web-Based System Streamlines Request Process
The CUSIP Service Bureau (CSB), the provider of unique issuer and instrument identifiers operated for the American Bankers Association by Standard & Poor’s (S&P), has introduced CUSIP Request, a new web-based system for processing requests for securities identifiers. Together with its internal IT team, S&P created a web-based prototype that enabled customers to attach documents...
LSE Collaborates with FOW TRADEdata to Automate, Expand Allocation of Sedols for Futures and Options
The London Stock Exchange has entered into a strategic collaboration with FOW TRADEdata, aggregator and distributor of reference data for exchange traded derivatives, with the aim of bringing Sedol instrument codes fully into the futures and options market. As a result of the relationship, Sedol codes, in addition to other identification codes used within the...
BNP Paribas Securities Services Live on ValueLink OTC Data
BNP Paribas Securities Services has gone live with an outsourced OTC derivatives data service from ValueLink. The service became operational in December, and since then ValueLink has been working with BNP Paribas to fine-tune reporting based on the requirements of the fund administrator’s own clients, according to the vendor’s operations director Trevor Beach. ValueLink’s outsourced...
CUSIP Service Bureau Launches CUSIP-Based ISIN Look-up Service
The CUSIP Service Bureau (CSB) has launched a web-based CSB-ISIN Look-up Service, which provides unique CUSIP-based International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) identifiers for more than 3.6 million securities and their issuers. This new web-based capability makes it easier for institutions to identify securities issued by the CSB and efficiently trade, settle and clear securities by...
ISIDPlus Reaches Coverage of One Million Issues
ISIDPlus, a cross-reference securities identifier service targeted at asset managers, now covers one million issues globally. Established in 1989, ISIDPlus is a strategic alliance between Standard & Poor’s and Telekurs Financial designed to bring clarity to financial information, including securities identification, pricing and corporate action information. “ISIDPlus allows customers to view substantial information from various...