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Winning the Big Data Race for Trading Communication
By Paul Metcalfe, Orange Business Serviceswww.orange-business.com Big data is increasingly becoming a key concern for technologists, especially with the recent introduction of recording for voice and SMS on mobile phones for trading activities in the UK. As additional voice recording requirements contribute to the growing repository of data firms have to hold to comply, the…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Bringing Markit EDM to Market
In recent weeks, on my usual rounds of meetings in the City – and in New York during Sifma week – I have been peppered by questions about the recent spate of corporate activity among enterprise data management platforms. In the two most visible examples, big data vendors have snapped up small, second-generation EDM platform…
CFTC Names DTCC and Swift to Provide CICIs Ahead of FSB LEI Development Meeting
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has designated DTCC and Swift as the provider of CFTC Interim Compliant Identifiers (CICIs) that will be used by registered entities and swap counterparties to comply with the CFTC’s swap data reporting regulations. The CICI identifier and its infrastructure that will be used by the CFTC are billed as…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Filling the Fund Income Data Gap
In what I see as further evidence of an enhanced market focus on corporate actions and related activities, a group of asset servicing and fund administration firms have launched a London-based working group focused on fund income data. The Fund Income Data Working Group (FIDWG) is hoping to address the dearth of available information on…
Bank Sarasin Tackles Corporate Actions Operational Risk with Aim Software
Swiss private bank Bank Sarasin has increased its investment in Aim Software solutions, adding the company’s corporate actions data scrubbing and matching capability to an existing data management structure based on Aim’s Gain platform and supporting pricing and static data since 2002. The bank looked at a range of corporate actions solutions to automate manual…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Riding the Regulatory Wave
Some years ago, I debated with the president of a well known enterprise data management platform provider about whether the market’s obsession with risk represented the ‘killer app’ the EDM segment had long been searching for. He wasn’t entirely convinced; I, of course, was. And although there are many good reasons to embark on an…
DNB Nord Is Early Adopter of IBM’s New InfoSphere Reference Data Application
IBM has added a ready-to-run application for reference data management to its InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) platform. The so-called InfoSphere MDM Reference Data Management Hub v10 has been beta tested by banks including DNB Nord in Europe and was released by IBM as an electronic upgrade last week. The application offers centralised reference data…
Latest Thomson Reuters RIC Proposal Addresses Fees, Scope to Assuage EC Inquiry
Thomson Reuters has made further concessions on licensing policies for its Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs) in an effort to end the European Commission’s enquiry into a breach of European competition rules by the company. The move follows an earlier rejected attempt to address EC anti-competition concerns. Comparing the revision to Thomson Reuters’ last and unsatisfactory…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Live and Let Die
(With apologies to Paul McCartney and Ian Fleming) When you were young and your heart was an open book You used to say ‘live and let live’ (you know you did, etc.). But in this ever-changin’ world in which we’re livin’ Makes you give it a try: ‘Live and let die’ When I was young…
S&P Capital IQ Details Plans for Evaluated Pricing Post CMA Acquisition
S&P Capital IQ’s acquisition of Credit Market Analysis (CMA) from CME Group last week is bearing fruit, with some CMA technologies already integrated and used in S&P Capital IQ offerings such as its evaluated pricing service. As other services and technologies are integrated, CMA as a whole is expected to slot in alongside earlier acquisitions…