Reuters’ Restrictions on RIC Codes Relaxed in Bid for Widespread Standards Adoption
The decision by Reuters to license the use of its proprietary Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs) has drawn cautious welcomes from most involved in the reference data industry. But some question whether the contractual restrictions that Reuters hopes to enforce on the use of the codes will can be reconciled with their general adoption. The vendor,...
Calling All Data Feeds…
Dutch data management specialist Asset Control has ambitious plans to integrate the complete set of reference datafeeds into a single industry utility, chief executive Ger Rosenkamp explains. When Asset Control announced at the end of last month that it had mapped and normalised Telekurs Financial’s Valordata Feed (VDF) to its AC Plus system and ACDEX...
Asset Control Analyses Data With Analytics Suite
Netherlands-based data management specialist Asset Control has released AC Contour, an analytics tool, as part of its AC Business Suite of tools and applications. AC Contour is a tool for analysing data to create and visualize curves and surfaces including volatilities, correlation and variance covariance matrices, zero curves and bond curves. It was designed in...
Fame Delivers Reference Data Engine On IBM And Linux
Fame Information Services is to implement its historical and reference data engine on the IBM’s AIX and Linux for zSeries operating systems as a result of a partnership with the computer giant. Joan Meltzer, IBM’s director, solutions marketing enterprise servers, says that products like Fame provide real performance improvement along with overall cost savings. “Customers...
Survey Finds Perception Gap On Data Quality
Roughly 40 per cent of corporate managers expect growth in the size and budget of their internal market data groups, but data management outsourcing is under consideration at a minority of firms according to a survey commissioned by data management specialist Iverson Financial Systems. The survey also identified a difference between users’ and vendors’ perceptions....
Isis Settles On DST For Data Loading And More…
ISIS Asset Management has expanding the use of DST International’s products throughout its entire fund management operation, including the HiData data management solution as well as the related HiInvest front office system, HiMessaging STP and HiPortfolio back office solution, which will be used to support its outsourcing services for Friends Provident. ISIS worked with DST...
Cicada, Algorithmics Set Details of Venture to Supply Cleansed Data in Risk Solutions
Cicada and Algorithmics are working to finalise the details of a new jointly-owned company they plan to establish, that will develop and provide multi-source clean, structured data and managed risk solutions to users of Algorithmics’ Algo Suite of products. A third partner, Investors Guaranty is funding and supporting the venture. The alliance, announced during April,...
Official Launch For Eagle Reference Manager
Eagle Investment Systems has launched Eagle Reference Manager, a security reference data management and workflow product. Reference Manager is a standalone system designed to consolidate, translate, validate and disseminate reference data throughout an enterprise. Eagle, well known for its EaglePace and EagleStar portfolio management and accounting solutions respectively, has managed data integration as part of...
Soliton Sees Opportunity Rise Through Collapse Of Reuters Reference Data Management Venture
Soliton plans to leverage its data acquisition technology and expertise to target the reference data management solutions space that Reuters is leaving behind. When one door closes, another one opens – an old saying but one that has real meaning behind the doors of Soliton’s offices. After a significant amount of time and effort spent...
Software Vendors Rush To Integrate Telekurs’ VDF
Telekurs Financial’s Valordata Feed has been integrated into the products and services of competing data integration specialists Asset Control and Financial Technologies International. The pair have taken different approaches to the mapping and integration, and there is divergence in the way they are promoting themselves and their respective strategies. FTI has focused on building a...