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Tradeweb Expands Market Data Availability Through Thomson Reuters
Tradeweb, a leading global provider of online markets for institutional investors and dealers, and Thomson Reuters today announced that their market data has been incorporated into the Thomson Reuters Datascope Real-Time (RDRT) feed offering. Tradeweb data continues to be available via Reuters 3000 Xtra desktop. Thomson Reuters customers are now able to subscribe to Tradeweb…
BarCap and Citi Veteran Sutton Takes Over Data Management Role at Royal Bank of Canada
FIMA regular and data management veteran, Julia Sutton has completed four weeks in her role at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), where she is now director in charge of reference data for EMEA and Asia Pacific. Speaking at FIMA 2009’s focus day, she explained that she is using her experienced garnered at Barclays Capital…
Senior Supervisors Group Report Calls Directly for Investment in Risk IT and Data Management
Last month, the Senior Supervisors Group (SSG), which is comprised of 10 regulatory bodies from seven countries, published a report examining the funding and liquidity issues central to the recent crisis. The report explores critical areas of risk management practice that the SSG feel warrant improvement across the financial services industry, including tackling firms’ fragmented…
GBST’s Shah Talks up New Corporate Actions Solution Launch for Broker Community
Following its rebrand under its parent company’s name in August, the vendor formerly known as Coexis, GBST, has decided to join the corporate actions vendor community. As one of a number of new entrants this year into this already fairly well populated market, GBST is attempting to set itself apart by tailoring its solution to…
RDR Poll This Month: How Has the Recession Impacted your Headcounts?
It is no secret that times are tough for most in the financial services community: budgets have been slashed and there have been many casualties of cost cutting exercises. But how has this impacted your data management teams and how does this compare to other firms out there? Much has been made of the importance…
First Derivatives Acquires Reference Data Factory for US$10m
It has certainly been a confusing year for clients and staff at New York-based reference data management solution vendor Reference Data Factory (RDF). Not only were they subjected to a demerger with data management consultancy LakeFront Data Consulting in January, they are now have an entirely new management team from First Derivatives to contend with….
Formicary Adds Focus on Back Office Requirements to Pricing Verification Solution
Technology integration solution vendor Formicary has released the latest version of its price verification solution, RiskSeer, with a view to improving its offering for the back office as well as those users in the front office. The vendor has traditionally pitched its solution at consumers of market data focused on pricing in the front office…
Eagle Investment Systems Teams Up with Interactive Data to Control Cost of Data Integration
Eagle Investment Systems LLC, a leading provider of financial services technology and wholly owned subsidiary of BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, together with Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data business, today announced the availability of a packaged set of data interfaces. This agreement makes Interactive Data’s reference data available via Eagle’s data management solution. It…
Principia Standardises Integration, Ongoing Surveillance and Management of Collateral Performance Data
Principia Partners, a solution provider for the management and administration of structured finance portfolios, today announced the launch of Principia Structured Finance Platform (Principia SFP) Version 6.2. The latest upgrade helps financial institutions and investment managers to track, monitor, analyse and report on the collateral pool performance of any fixed income asset, including asset backed…
Fitch Solutions Partners with Pricing Partners on CDS Data Distribution
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group focusing on the development of fixed income products and services, and Pricing Partners, an independent valuation, today announced a strategic partnership allowing users of Pricing Partners’ Price-it Solution with Fitch Solutions market data license to access seamlessly Fitch Solutions’ market data on OTC credit derivatives. The partnership…