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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Three-Letter Acronym (TLA) Syndrome
Next week, as you may know, I’ll be heading to NYC and not for R&R. Our newest Brit on the Street (BOS) – Caroline Statman – and I will be doing the proverbial rounds of the reference data world to see what’s what and what will be what come 2013. It’s going to be a…
Invesco Builds Out Eagle Performance and Data Management Solutions
Invesco has completed the second implementation phase of Eagle Investment Systems’ performance measurement solution covering its retail and institutional business in the UK and continental Europe. The performance measurement system is complemented by Eagle’s Pace data management platform, which is being used to improve internal reporting across performance, holdings, transactions and risk metrics. The data…
Data Management: Time for a New Best Practice Model
By Nigel Pickering, Founder, www.ref-data.com Firms have been attempting the ‘data centralisation’ path for many years – yet few, if any, have truly succeeded in delivering a solution to the underlying drivers and objectives. Many will have concluded that integrating their core data is the route to managing reference and transactional data across the many…
European Commission Consults on Compilation of Indices and Benchmarks
The European Commission’s spotlight on data transparency has panned out to cover benchmarks and indices. Following the Libor scandal and the Commission’s move to amend proposals for market abuse regulation and criminal sanctions to clarify that any manipulation of benchmarks is illegal, it has issued a consultation paper on the production of benchmarks and market…
MoneyMate Proposes Solution to Holdings Data Issues of Solvency II
MoneyMate’s introduction of a look-through and reporting utility, which will provide data connectivity between insurance companies, asset managers and third party administrators, is aimed to support insurers that must comply with Solvency II and asset managers that want to protect the investment strategies they are using while providing necessary holdings data to insurers and their…
Nasdaq OMX Sets up Data Storage Solution in the Amazon Cloud
Nasdaq OMX is challenging regulatory data management requirements with a cloud platform powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and tailored by Nasdaq OMX to provide secure and scalable data storage that cuts the cost of existing internal and external storage options. Called FinQloud, the cloud platform initially offers two regulatory solutions for US financial firms,…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Let the LEI Games Begin
This week we’re publishing our long-awaited special report on the LEI: ‘What the Global Legal Entity Identifier Will Mean for Your Firm’. Frankly, it’s purpose is to do what it says on the tin: to help you figure out what you need to do about the most talked about development after the iPhone 5 (I…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Lessons From Mitteleuropa
Chatting with one of our favourite data practitioners as we stood in the passport line at our favourite airport – if Heineken did airports, they’d do London City – en route home from the FIMA DACH event in Frankfurt yesterday, we remarked how ‘the Europeans’ had a different attitude toward data management from the Anglo-Saxon…
EDI Adds Bloomberg Open Symbology to Corporate Actions Services
Back-office reference data provider Exchange Data International (EDI) has implemented Bloomberg Global Securities Identifiers (BBGIDs) in its equities reference, pricing and corporate actions data feeds. The London-based provider is planning further implementation in its fixed income corporate actions service and forthcoming mortgage-backed securities service. The company’s decision to adopt Bloomberg’s Open Symbology (BSYM), a free-to-use…
DST Global Solutions Partners XSP to Deliver Corporate Actions Capability
DST Global Solutions has secured a global reseller agreement with corporate actions specialist XSP. The agreement covers both an integrated corporate actions module for the company’s HiPortfolio asset servicing solution and direct sales of the XSP software. DST will initially play on its strength in the Australian investment management market with a view to becoming…