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Gonet&Cie Automates Credit Ratings with S&P Capital IQ’s XpressFeed
S&P Capital IQ has named Swiss private bank Gonet&Cie as its first European customer to automate Standard & Poor’s credit ratings through the use of its XpressFeed enterprise data feed. The S&P ratings were added to the feed in June 2012 and have already won towards 30 subscribers in the Americas and Asia-Pacific. S&P Capital…
Gjensidige Selects Moody’s Analytics’ RiskIntegrity Solvency II Solution
Norwegian insurance company Gjensidige is working with Moody’s Analytics’ RiskIntegrity Solvency II solution to improve risk management and support compliance with the forthcoming regulation. The company chose RiskIntegrity on the strength of its out-of-the-box regulatory capabilities and ease of use. Thomas Bichard-Breaud, leader of Gjensidige’s Solvency II reporting, explains: “Moody’s Analytics offered us the best…
Bloomberg’s Secunda Cites Enterprise Products and Solutions Business as the Way Forward
Tom Secunda, founding partner and global head of financial products and services at Bloomberg, cantered through a brief history of technology and made a foray into the future at last week’s Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit in London before delivering the Bloomberg message that the world has changed but is providing opportunities that were unimaginable two…
CounterpartyLink Details Development of CPL Online Entity Data Service
CounterpartyLink is progressing the development of its CPL Online legal entity intelligence service with the immediate addition of a compliance index and the promise of hierarchy data for all entities it holds and a visualisation tool to view related data. The company’s October 2012 commitment to offer beneficial ownership data at a level of 10%…
SIX Financial Information Prepares Data Solution for Fatca Compliance
SIX Financial Information has joined the growing band of market data vendors preparing to meet the reference data requirements of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca). While Fatca regulation is not expected to be finalised until next year, ahead of the act coming into effect on 1 January 2014, SIX Financial Information is…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: LEI Progress Report 4
In a fourth progress note on the development of a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) has named Switzerland as the likely home of the global LEI foundation that will operate the LEI system’s Central Operating Unit (COU). It also set out the preliminary criteria for the selection of a…
Broadridge’s Access Data Accelerates Processing with EMC Greenplum
Broadridge Financial’s Access Data unit is speeding up its data processing using EMC’s Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform. Using Greenplum, processing of a four billion record data store that once took eight hours to complete now just takes minutes, enabling Access Data to provide its clients with greater visibility into how assets are generated, allowing them…
Interactive Data Adds Corporate Actions Options to Apex Delivery Platform
Interactive Data is migrating its corporate actions data services to the Apex XML-based reference data delivery platform it introduced in October with a view to meeting growing market demand for automated solutions and emerging demand for corporate actions information not only in the back-office, but also in front-office trading and risk management applications. The company’s…
Talking Reference Data With Andrew Delaney: If It Ain’t STP, It Ain’t Worth a F*%£!
Elvis Costello is playing Southend Cliffs Pavilion next June and I’m getting tickets. Last time I saw him at the Cliffs was probably 1980 or thereabouts. (Last time I saw Chelsea lose 3-1 to West Ham [Yes, we were there Saturday] was 1973; Bobby Moore scored. But that’s a different matter….) Needless to say, he…
Coba Proposes Commercial Framework for European Consolidated Tape
The Coba Project, an organisation set up to propose a commercial framework for an industry-led pan-European consolidated tape, reports positive feedback from a letter outlining its plans that it sent to key industry stakeholders earlier this week. Coba’s proposal wraps up the standards recommended ahead of the letter by FIX Protocol Ltd. (FPL) for the…