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Market MiFFED by FSA Benchmarking Proposal
If there’s been a sub-theme to recent activity in the reference data marketplace, it’s sure been bond evaluations. Readers of Reference Data Review have witnessed the flurry of product offerings, positioning and poachings among the major suppliers, with Reuters, Bloomberg, Standard & Poor’s and Thomson Financial all attempting to enter a marketplace long dominated by…
Mellon Financial Combines MAS with Eagle Product Offerings
Mellon Financial has combined its Mellon Analytical Solutions (MAS) business with the Eagle Performance system. The move follows Mellon’s acquisition of Russell Investment Group’s 50% share in the Russell/Mellon joint venture last September. The combined offering provides portfolio and mutual fund performance measurement, performance attribution, index data management and portfolio analysis and reporting to institutional…
IDC’s Strategic Deal with Markit Provides Cooperative Framework
This month’s data redistribution deal between Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data and Markit Group belies a more strategic alliance, than at first it appears. The agreement gives FT Interactive Data clients access to the models Markit uses for its bond valuations as well as use of Markit’s own credit default swap, credit index and…
Data Management Steps Up a Gear
We can’t help but feel that the reference data marketplace has, over the past few months, stepped into another plane. When we launched Reference Data Review almost three years ago (yes, three years!), the market was full of talk and devoid of action. Looking back at our coverage in 2005, we’re proud to see RDR…
J.P. Morgan Adopts Central Reference Data Hub To Support Global Credit Trading Operation
J.P. Morgan Chase is building a business-aligned reference data hub in support of the major reengineering of its credit trading operation onto a single platform. The hub – essentially a central global hub for credit reference data – will commingle corporate data, vendor data and business-specific data into a single, unified service available to all…
FIMA Delivers Reference Data Messages
As promised, the Financial Information Management (FIMA) conference in London earlier this month offered a very useful forum for the reference data community to trade ideas and network. We spent both days there and found catching up with old friends, making new ones, and listening and learning about real-life implementa-tions a valuable use of our…
Two New Corporate Bond Indices Launched to Increase Transparency
The National Association of Securities Dealer (NASD) and Bloomberg are jointly launching two new corporate bond indices: the NASD-Bloomberg Active Investment Grade U.S. Corporate Bond Index and the NASD-Bloomberg Active High Yield U.S. Corporate Bond Index. Both are generated solely from transactions prices of actively traded bonds as opposed to quotes or estimated prices. Index…
The Impact of MiFID
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) has been described as pure cost pain for little liquidity gain by some. What might the impacts be for the financial services firms in terms of conduct of business, data management and best execution and order-handling processes? asks Dr Anthony W Kirby, Fellow of European Think Tank Promethee and…
Canadian Depository Offers Direct Access to Reference Data
The Canadian Depository for Securities (CDS) – the world’s oldest securities depository – is gearing up to begin distribution of information services beyond its membership base. The depository is introducing direct availability of its corporate actions and other relevant data it collects to non-members. CDS handles all Canadian debt and equity markets, including private issues,…
IBEI and the Ten-Year Rush Towards Implementation By Gary Wright MSI, CityCompass Research
The planned International Business Entity Identifier (IBEI) – a unique identification system for investing and trading parties in the securities market – has been a long-standing objective since Swift allowed non-banking entities onto their network and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) lost control of central market trading. It’s not that long ago that to execute…