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SIX Financial Information Adds Bloomberg Global Identifiers to Data Feeds
SIX Financial Information has incorporated Bloomberg Global Identifiers (BBGIDs) into its Valordata Feed and plans to do the same for its Market Data Feed, a development that adds Bloomberg Open Symbology to more than 30 security identification schemes already supported by the company. BBGIDs are available immediately and at no extra cost within the Valordata…
Xenomorph Extends Reach of TimeScape into Commercial Banking Sector
Xenomorph has extended the reach of its capital markets data management and analytics solution TimeScape into the institutional and commercial banking sector through an arrangement with client engagement platform provider i2i Logic. i2i Logic, a start-up company, is using the cloud version of Xenomorph’s TimeScape, which runs in the Windows Azure cloud, and Xenomorph’s recent…
Interactive Data Offers Ready-to-Test Fatca Data Service
Interactive Data has added its name to the list of market data vendors with reference data offerings designed to meet the compliance requirements of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca). It is also talking to third-party software providers about working together to provide complete solutions that could be easier for customers to implement…
LEI Oversight Committee Endorses Pre-LOUs, but Delays Naming of Board Directors for the LEI Foundation
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the Global Legal Entity Identifier System (GLEIS) has endorsed the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Turkey’s Takasbank as pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs), making the LEI codes they issue or have issued acceptable for regulatory reporting in the jurisdictions represented by the ROC. While these endorsements mark progress in development…
HSBC Group CDO Details the Requirements of Data Management Strategy and Practice
The chief data officer (CDO) needs to be a change agent with the aim of making data part of the business-as-usual process. Speaking at last week’s FIMA conference, Peter Serenita, group chief data officer at HSBC, described the role of the CDO and how best to develop data management strategy and practice. On the role…
ESMA Approves Trade Repositories for EMIR and Sets February Deadline for Derivatives Reporting
The reporting deadline for European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) has been set for February 12, 2014, following the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) approval of four trade repositories for derivatives trading. A request by ESMA to delay the reporting deadline for exchange-traded derivatives by a year has been turned down by the European Commission….
Global LEI System Takes Two Small Steps Towards Operation
The Global Legal Entity Identifier System (GLEIS) has inched forward with operational moves being made by the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) to address reference data issues around the LEI and by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to accept LEIs from all endorsed pre-local operating units (LOUs). The Secretariat of the ROC has written a…
Bloomberg and Markit Exchange Reference Data to Bolster EDM Services
Bloomberg and Markit have responded to market demand for a wider choice of vendor data for enterprise data management (EDM) with a non-exclusive agreement to distribute each other’s pricing and reference data through their EDM platforms Bloomberg Polarlake and Markit EDM. The companies report increasing interest in choosing and consuming broader datasets as customers and…
SAP and SAS Partnership Develops In-Memory Analytics for Big Data
SAP and SAS have signed a strategic agreement to develop data management and analytics solutions that allow SAS’s analytics applications to run on SAP’s HANA in-memory platform. The aim is to deliver real-time data analysis, with early solutions due in the first half of next year. The partners plan to develop high-performance solutions across a…
A-Team Hot Topic Webinar: Data Management – A Finance, Risk & Regulatory View
Business knowledge, data centralisation and data consistency are at the heart of successful data management for finance, risk and regulation, particularly as it applies to the complexity of financial institutions operating across multiple regulatory environments. The challenges to bringing these elements together are significant, but they can be tackled and results can include not only…