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Talking Reference Data with Sarah Underwood: Data Quality and the LEI
Progress in the development of a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system, including the issue of 83,000 pre-LEIs by two active pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs), is acting as a catalyst for change with many financial institutions investing heavily to get their entity data in order. The process should prove beneficial in terms of improved data…
StatPro Adds Regulatory Compliance Solutions to Revolution Cloud Platform
StatPro has added a global exposure and liquidity monitoring module to the StatPro Revolution App Store. The module is designed to help asset managers meet UCITS IV regulation and is the first in series of regulatory compliance solutions being developed for the StatPro Revolution portfolio analytics cloud platform. The exposure and liquidity monitoring tool is…
Big Data and Rising Internet Use Require Innovative Reference Data Management Solutions
Big data and internet proliferation are creating great opportunities in the financial sector, but firms must move quickly to develop innovative reference data solutions if they are to take advantage of these opportunities and remain competitive. Presenting at an ISITC Europe reference data briefing, Ken Price, vice president of sales at data management specialist Strevus…
Swift Enhances SwiftRef Reference Data Utility and Plans Managed Services
Swift is building on last year’s introduction of SwiftRef, its payments reference data utility, with plans to extend web and cloud data services and develop managed services around the data it collects, cleanses, consolidates and publishes. SwiftRef went live in January 2012 and is delivering 194 data files every day to about 1,000 subscribers worldwide….
Tim Fox Moves out of Interactive Data and into Avox
Avox, the DTCC subsidiary dedicated to maintaining business entity reference data, has hired Tim Fox to the new role of product manager. Fox joins Avox from Interactive Data, where he was product marketing manager with responsibility for all aspects of the company’s Solvency II sales. He also worked with business and line management to agree…
Thomson Reuters Sets Plans for Newly Acquired Pricing Partners
Thomson Reuters’ acquisition of Paris-based Pricing Partners formalises a working relationship between the companies, adding derivatives evaluated pricing services and risk analytics, global reach, expertise and an expansion opportunity to Thomson Reuters Pricing Services. The acquisition was closed last week and while no financial details were disclosed, Thomson Reuters has confirmed that Pricing Partners will…
S&P Capital IQ Builds Out Cross-Referencing Capabilities to Cover Entity Identifiers
S&P Capital IQ is addressing the need to cross reference emerging legal entity identifiers (LEIs) in a broad cross-referencing service covering over two million public and private entities that use standard and proprietary identifiers. The service is called the Business Entity Cross Reference Service and is designed to help users identify systemic and counterparty risk,…
CounterpartyLink Supports Client Data Off-Boarding to Improve Efficiency and Cut Costs
CounterpartyLink, a provider of global legal entity and counterparty data, has reversed the concept of client on-boarding with the offer of a client off-boarding service designed to help large financial institutions clean up their client databases, improve operational efficiency and reduce operating costs. The company has been working with a handful of clients to off-board…
A-Team Group Webinar Discusses the Trend Towards On-Demand and Real-Time Valuations
Regulators and participants in fixed income markets are calling for more frequent valuation updates, but an emerging trend towards real-time valuations will be neither universal nor useful for all securities. A webinar hosted last week by A-Team Group editor- in-chief Andrew Delaney, and joined by experts from Bloomberg, Interactive Data and S&P Capital IQ, discussed…
Misys Combines Existing and New Technology Concepts to Deliver Risk Insight
Misys has developed the risk aggregation tool and interactive dashboard it introduced as a component of Misys Global Risk in November 2012 to deliver Misys Risk Insight, a broader solution with dynamic functionality aimed at meeting the needs of both risk officers and business managers. Misys Global Risk, a modular enterprise risk platform, was the…