Thomson Financial Adds Worldscope to Thomson ONE Banker
Thomson Financial continues to add content from its broad array of assets to the new ONE platform. This time, it’s added the Worldscope historical database to the Thomson ONE Banker service, aimed at the investment banking community. Worldscope is a major fundamental database containing financial statements, ratios, pricing and descriptive information.
State of Wisconsin Investment Board Selects Eagle for Reference Data Normalization Platform
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) has embarked on a major project to integrate and normalize the data used by its portfolio managers to run their investment models and to verify custodians’ reports on the performance of its external managers. SWIB is implementing Eagle Investment Systems’ Eagle Reference Manager platform at the heart of...
Reuters Identifies Enterprise Data Fastest-Growing Segment in 2003
In a wide-ranging product briefing to analysts in London earlier this month, Reuters identified enterprise data as its fastest-growing product segment in 2003. The segment, which falls under its new enterprise client group, includes Reuters’ DataScope pricing and reference data businesses. According to Reuters chief financial officer David Grigson, the enterprise information products group grew...
Bloor Names Coexis Data Manager First Generic Product
Independent research house Bloor Research has pronounced Syn~ReferenceData the first generic reference data software product. Syn~ReferenceData, developed by Coexis, offers a process-oriented and rules-based approach for describing and modeling how a business works, defining the rules that describe operations, and setting up role-based personalization to provide local access to data. With Syn~ReferenceData, a golden copy...
FTI Wins at Franklin Templeton, M&G
Financial Technologies International (FTI) has chalked up two wins for its StreetReference reference data management platform. Investment manager Franklin Templeton will integrate StreetReference into its existing implementation of FTI’s StreetBooks client records data store. Meanwhile, M&G Investment Management will use StreetReference as part of its so-called Data Mart database of fixed-income securities terms and conditions....
ADP Wilco Expands Outsourcing to Reference Data Management
ADP Wilco has expanded its ASP outsourcing business to adopt a more comprehensive business processing outsourcing approach. Targeting smaller brokerages, ADP Wilco will offer such back-office tasks as instrument pricing and securities and corporate actions reference data management, as well as trade capture and reconciliation. Rather than a full back-office outsourcing approach, the ADP Wilco...
IBM Builds on Reference Data Initiative with Basel II Suite
Hot on the heels of its reference data deal with Dresdner Bank (Reference Data Review, January 2004), IBM this month launched a suite of data management solutions designed to cater for institutions seeking to comply with the Basel II operational risk regulations. The new suite – with the snappy name of Risk & Compliance-Basel II...
Financial Data Management Event Offers Practical Insight
Osney Media’s Financial Data Management conference in London next month promises to yield some insight into issues surrounding management of information within the financial services marketplace. Osney Media believes the key data management question for financial institutions has shifted in the past 12 months from “Should a data management project be implemented?” to “How will...
Soliton Revamps Management in Bid to Leverage Data Platform
Reference data management platform provider Soliton has revamped its senior management team in a bid to exploit growing industry interest in consistent, timely and accurate reference data. Soliton’s TimeSquare offering is designed to automate the acquisition and management of reference data and allows institutions to create a single, sustainable security master database. The reorganization involves...
Kx Systems to Offer Testing for London Stock Exchange Trade Data
Kx Systems has forged a relationship with the London Stock Exchange that will allow institutions to use Kx’s data analysis capabilities to test trading strategies using LSE historical trade and quote data. Kx has had a similar arrangement with the New York Stock Exchange for several years.