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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The Great LEI Road Show Comes To Town
Right on cue, the Office of Financial Research (OFR) this week released a set of frequently asked questions (FAQs), to help practitioners get their heads around the new legal entity identifier (LEI) ahead of its launch next month. The FAQs help set the scene for the long-awaited introduction of this crucial data standard, and it’s…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: DMS Down to the Wire
Bang on schedule, the program for our Data Management Summit in London on March 12 has crystallised into a must-attend event for anyone whose fortunes are tied up with enterprise data and the technologies used to manage it. I’m particularly thrilled to have a stellar line-up of keynote speakers, and a great response to our…
Risk Data and Technology Take Centre Stage at A-Team’s Data Management Summit
Bang on schedule, the programme for our Data Management Summit in London on March 12 has crystallised into a must-attend event for anyone whose fortunes are tied up with enterprise data and the technologies used to manage it. As you’d probably expect, risk features strongly in this year’s programme, with sessions dedicated to risk data…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Markit-Asset Control – New Dawn Fades
The buzz around Markit’s alleged interest in Asset Control reached fever pitch a week or so ago when an anonymous caller to Reference Data Review suggested the deal was done and Asset Control’s senior management relieved of their duties. But just a few days after we went public with speculation of a transaction, the deal…
Opinion: Will Banks Meet The Regulatory Challenge?
By Stuart Grant, EMEA Business Development Manager – Financial ServicesSAP If we examine today’s regulatory landscape across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), we see a minefield of complexity and requirements that financial organisations must meet. In the UK specifically, with Basel III and papers such as The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s (BCBS)…
SIX Financial Information Extends Evaluated Pricing Capacity
SIX Financial Information has set up an evaluated pricing valuation team in Frankfurt with a view to expanding its coverage of European assets and improving support for European clients. The team has four staff, with a fifth due to join shortly, and adds to existing teams of evaluators in Denmark and Stamford, Connecticut. According to…
Thomson Reuters Pushes DataScope Select into Front Office with DataScope Workflow License
Thomson Reuters is pushing DataScope Select, its delivery platform for non-streaming pricing and reference data, into the front office with the offer of data sets dedicated to the operation of transaction systems including order management systems (OMS), execution management systems (EMS) and portfolio management systems (PMS). Initial content is available immediately for OMS solutions under…
Bloomberg PolarLake Brings Managed Service for EDM to Market
Bloomberg PolarLake has rolled out the enterprise data management (EDM) managed service it proposed after its May 2012 acquisition by Bloomberg. The service will initially support security master and pricing data processing with more options to come later this year. Swedbank is its first user and SIX Financial Information its first data provider. PolarLake did…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The Birth of a New Standard
The UK National Childbirth Trust – the NCT – is a venerable organisation that helps first time parents prepare for the arrival of their little bundle of joy. For mothers, it helps reduce the obvious stress of anticipation of the big day and creates a network of like-minded mums who swap tips and tales of…
Jyske Bank Selects SmartStream Corporate Actions Solution in Back-Office Refit
Denmark’s Jyske Bank has gone live with SmartStream’s TLM Corporate Actions solution after a back-office technology refit that exchanged legacy systems with back-office platforms from Danish IT solutions provider Bankdata. The bank, the second largest independent bank in Denmark, went into production with the Bankdata and SmartStream systems in October 2012. It reviewed other corporate…