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Netik Transformation into CoreOne Leaves Little of the EDM Specialist at Large
Last week’s formal introduction of PrimeOne Solutions, a hosted prime brokerage service within the CoreOne Technologies group, marks the end of the first wave of CoreOne development and the final resting place of Netik, the enterprise date management company that was acquired by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group in 2008 and rebranded as CoreOne…
Alacra Reference Data Service Details 200,000 Global Legal Entities
Online business information provider Alacra is aiming to help financial firms solve regulatory and compliance problems, and get ready for next year’s introduction of the global legal entity identifier (LEI), with a database of clean legal entity data attributes covering towards 200,000 global business entities. The company’s so-called Alacra Authority File (AAF) expands on publically…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Just When You Thought It Was Safe…
The CFTC yesterday approved approved the DTCC’s application to run a multi-asset class swap data repository (SDR) in the US, with the promise of increased transparency in the OTC derivatives marketplace. The depository – slated for launch on October 12 – doubtless will make use of the CICI interim legal entity identifier, cementing that nomenclature’s…
Markit Gains Rights to Distribute Euroclear Bank’s Eurobond Reference Data
Euroclear Bank is transferring all existing and future distribution and commercialisation of its Eurobond reference data to Markit, leaving the bank to focus on core business around settlement and clearing, and giving the financial information services provider rights to distribute reference data covering more than 200,000 Eurobonds. The strategic agreement covers a broader set of…
Friends Life Investments Start-up Implements Markit EDM Platform
Markit has made one of its first and fastest implementations of the enterprise data management (EDM) platform it acquired with Cadis Software back in June at Friends Life Investments, a start-up asset manager within Friends Life Group. Conversation between Friends Life Investments and potential technology providers started about six months ago ahead of a rigorous…
Risklab Centralises Risk Data Management with Xenomorph TimeScape
Risklab, the investment and risk solutions specialist within Allianz Global Investors, has implemented Xenomorph’s TimeScape to provide a dynamic risk data management platform that can support the risk services it operates on behalf of its institutional clients. The company considered a number of data management solutions before selecting Xenomorph’s TimeScape analytics and data management system….
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney – Back in N.Y.C.
On a conference call the other day chatting about – what else? – LEI, a friend remarked on how ridiculously busy he was. Jetting about the place, flying in to here and there, meeting with clients, risking life and limb for the good of the company. “It’s that time of the year,” he said. “Budget…
GoldenSource Offers Hosted Enterprise Data Management Platform
GoldenSource is back in the off-the-shelf solutions market with a hosted version of its enterprise data management (EDM) platform. The company released the first in a planned series of packaged applications, the GoldenSource Insight dashboard, earlier this month. GoldenSource OnDemand, like the packaged products, is a response to increasing cost pressure in the market and…
Market Participants Focus on the Cost, Adoption and Long-Term Success of the LEI
Issues of cost, adoption and long-term success dominated a debate on the legal entity identifier (LEI) held in London last week. The debate on ‘The Implications of Building a Global Legal Entity Identifier’ – organised by Interactive Data and Goodacre – featured speakers from DTCC, HSBC Securities, JP Morgan and Interactive Data. Mark Davies, vice…
S&P Capital IQ Works with Dun & Bradstreet to Build Out Private Company Data
S&P Capital IQ has more than doubled its coverage of private company data in Western Europe and North America following a deal with Dun & Bradstreet to provide raw data that is then cleaned and checked for integrity by S&P Capital IQ. While S&P Capital IQ has offered some private company information for a couple…