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Exchange Data International Adds Reference Data Products to Airex Online Market
Exchange Data International (EDI) has listed its securities reference data and corporate actions data on the Airex Market, joining about 50 vendors of financial services apps, information and reports already offering products and services on the online market. Airex went live with a beta version of its digital information market in February 2015, with the…
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Implements Fenergo Client Lifecycle Management Solution
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, a US regional bank operating across nine states, has implemented Fenergo’s client lifecycle management solution to provide a single view of clients, improve operational efficiency around client onboarding and meet client entity data requirements across a number of regulations. The bank, which operates predominantly in capital markets, selected Fenergo following a competitive…
SmartStream Signs Up Data Vendors for Reference Data Utility
SmartStream Technologies is building out its Reference Data Utility (RDU) – informally known as the SPReD Securities Product Reference Data platform – through the addition of data vendor agreements with Interactive Data, Exchange Data International, SIX Financial Information, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Dow Jones Indices and Euromoney Tradedata. These agreements add to a tie-up with…
The FIGI Moves Forward Via Inclusion in ISO 20022 Messaging Standard
The open source Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), formerly the Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID), is coming closer to being a primary security identifier following its inclusion in the ISO 20022 external code set for financial instrument identification and its formal approval as a standard by the Object Management Group (OMG). The identifier is also starting…
Fenergo Enhances Client Lifecycle Management with Data Integration Manager
Fenergo has enhanced its client lifecycle management solution with the addition of Data Integration Manager, a rules-based data interface designed to ease the problems of using multiple data sources for applications such as client onboarding, Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML). The company has integrated three DTCC data services used for these kinds…
From Bitcoin to Back Office 2.0 – A Quick Intro to Block Chain Technology
By Pete Harris, Principal, Lighthouse Partners “Nothing much more than a fancy kind of database,” is how Blythe Masters described block chains, a technology that underpins the bitcoin crypto currency, but which has applications as diverse as proving ownership of intellectual property to acting as the processing glue between devices in the Internet of Things….
A-Team Webinar Discusses BCBS 239 Compliance Ahead of January Deadline
The journey towards BCBS 239 compliance continues with global systemically important banks expected to be able to satisfy supervisors when the regulation comes into effect on January 1st 2016. Other banks that are not yet within the scope of the regulation are also making progress, considering how they will comply with the 14 principles of…
Consorzio Operativo MPS Plans Implementation of GoldenSource Customers and Counterparties Solution
Consorzio Operativo MPS, the technology arm of Banca Monte Dei Paschi di Siena, the world’s oldest bank and flagship of the MPS Group, has selected the GoldenSource Customers and Counterparties data management solution to create, maintain and publish a standardised reference data repository for the group’s counterparty data. The technology operation is already rolling out…
Publishing Reference Data in a Post-MiFIR World
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team One area where a delay in implementing MiFIR would allow market participants and regulators much needed time to sort out vital details is the area of reference data publication. ESMA has made it clear that, in…
Feature: Sizing the Problem and Finding Solutions for Risk Data Aggregation
Risk data aggregation became a hot topic after the financial crash in 2008, when it became clear that banks did not have the necessary risk information readily available to understand their exposures to counterparties and inform regulators of their positions. Senior managers were making poor decisions based on poor data and supervisory regulators failed to…