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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The Humpty Dumpty Factor
Humpty Dumpty famously said: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” I think he was on to something. As I move within reference data circles – recently in London, Zurich, Frankfurt and New York – I find that the term reference data can be applied…
Managing Big Data Woes: A How-to Guide for Hedge Funds
By Mark Kenney, Abacus Groupwww.abacusgroupllc.com The explosion of data over the last several years, coupled with dynamic compliance requirements, has put excessive stress on many firms’ storage capabilities. With the need to juggle multiple strategies, multiple funds and multiple prime brokers, it’s not uncommon for today’s hedge funds to deal with many terabytes of data….
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Talking LEI on the LIE
All eyes are on Basel – even here in New York, where practitioners and other interested parties are awaiting with some trepidation the outcome of next week’s Private Sector Preparatory Group (PSPG) meetings to determine next steps for the legal entity identifier. Up and down the LIE – that’s the Long Island Expressway, in case…
EDM Council Plans to Show Semantic Solution for LEI at Next Week’s FSB Meeting
The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council will throw its weight behind a semantic solution for the proposed global legal entity identifier (LEI) system at next week’s Financial Stability Board (FSB) meeting of the LEI Private Sector Preparatory Group (PSPG) in Basel. Managing director of the EDM Council, Michael Atkin, who is also a member of…
Thomson Reuters and BlackRock Partner to Deliver Fixed Income Derived Analytics
Thomson Reuters and BlackRock have joined forces to deliver fixed income derived analytics based on security indicative data and prices from the market data vendor and proprietary fixed income models designed by BlackRock Solutions. The models are used by BlackRock itself, as well as by customers of BlackRock Solutions’ Aladdin enterprise investment system. Thomson Reuters…
Tick42 Offers Open Source Bridge from OpenMAMA to Bloomberg Open API
Tick42, the May 2012 rebrand of Dealing Object Technology, has made its first foray into open-source software with the release of a bridge from the NYSE Technologies originated OpenMAMA middleware agnostic messaging application programming interface (API) to the Bloomberg Open API. The bridge enables OpenMAMA users to bring Bloomberg data directly into their applications without…
A-Team LEI Debate Calls Firms to Action on Issues of Complexity, Control and Cost
Development of a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system designed to curb systemic risk is making progress under the auspices of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), but major challenges remain as the industry and individual firms tackle the complexity of implementing the LEI, consider control mechanisms to maintain its integrity and find budget to fund…
Interactive Data Adds Fixed Income to Fair Value Services
Interactive Data’s release of fair value information services for international fixed income securities initially covers sovereign and corporate bonds in the EMEA region, but the company plans to extend coverage to fixed income securities in Asia and Australia, and also has plans to build out the real-time fair value information service it introduced in March…
CounterpartyLink Fattens Legal Entity Data Feed to Support Regulatory Compliance
CounterpartyLink is helping users of its legal entity data meet regulatory compliance and risk requirements with the addition of deeper beneficial ownership information and the inclusion of CFTC Interim Compliant Identifiers (CICIs) in its data feed. Additional data fields to support the extended information have been included in the legal entity database that CounterpartyLink distributes…
Chris Bannocks Joins Barclays to Head Up Global Reference Data
Chris Bannocks has moved on from the role of managing director, global head of enterprise data management at Nomura International to head up reference data at Barclays. Bannocks joined Barclays in London this week and takes the title managing director, global head of reference data. His responsibility is reference data on a global basis across…