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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Back to Work

We’re back from Labor Day, August Bank Holiday and the Olympics (although the Paralympics continues here in sunny East London). It’s surely time to roll up the sleeves and get back to work. The forthcoming ‘Fall Season’, as I like to call it, looks like it will be a busy one. Everyone is in budget…

Data Integration Tools: Now, Where Did I leave it…?

By Nick Jones, Senior Consultant, Citisoft Have you ever tried to do a simple job around the house and spent several times longer looking for the right tools and materials than it took to actually do the job?  Have you ever wanted to make a change to a system and been frustrated by the time…

SIX Financial Information Puts Defensibility at Core of Evaluated Pricing Service

SIX Financial Information has put defensibility at the heart of its next-generation Evaluated Pricing Service (EPS), which will replace existing pricing products covering complex securities pricing and fair value pricing. Migration to the new service started this week and is expected to be complete by the end of October with most existing customers simply switching…

DTCC Builds User Base Around ISO 20022 Corporate Actions Solution

DTCC has begun to build a user base around its ISO 20022 real-time corporate actions solution following the addition of BNY Mellon to existing user Brown Brothers Harriman. Both participated, along with JP Morgan, in a DTCC pilot programme that began in 2010 and led to the introduction of the DTCC standard-based solution late last…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The Jewel in the Reference Data Crown

How is your knowledge of India’s geography? By which I mean: Do you know where Pune and Chennai are? And how long does it take to get to Bangalore from Mumbai? Mine’s appalling. So I’m going to brush up on what’s where in relation to where. It’s a big place, so this could take a…

Thomson Reuters Outlines the Data Challenges and Opportunities of Form PF

Thomson Reuters has warned private fund advisors that they must be able to source substantial amounts of accurate data and automate reporting if they are to meet the regulatory challenge of Form PF. In an industry briefing published this month – titled Form PF: Data Takes Center Stage – Thomson Reuters global head of evaluated…

DTCC and Swift Signal CICI Portal as First Mover Advantage in Contest to Build LEI Infrastructure

DTCC and Swift are back in play and aiming to be major providers to the global legal entity identifier (LEI) infrastructure after gaining first-mover advantage through this week’s official opening of a web portal for Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) interim compliant identifiers (CICIs). Selecting from four potential providers, the CFTC last month designated the…

Andrew’s Blog: Enterprise Data Soap

The dust had hardly settled on the ‘news’ that former Thomson Reuters Enterprise group chief Jon Robson had left to join NYSE Technologies as CEO – still unconfirmed as of this time of writing – when we learned that his right hand man for the past several years, Enterprise Content head Gerry Buggy, was following…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney – The Curse of Approved Supplier

We were saddened to learn earlier in the summer of the demise of Hyper Rig, a pioneer in the area of risk aggregation. To us, Hyper Rig’s commercial offering seemed as close as one could get to meeting practitioners’ stated requirement for a means of deriving risk measurement/management information from the broad range of relevant…

CICI Utility Goes Live in Preparation for CFTC’s October OTC Reporting Rule

The initial implementation of the DTCC’s and Swift’s CICI Utility Portal has gone live at https://ciciutility.org. The release of the site – which aims to support Phase 1 of global assignment of the CFTC’s Interim Compliant Identifiers by providing timely and accurate entity records – comes a month after the DTCC and Swift were named…