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Q&A: Steve Gleave of Endace on Latency Monitoring
In the news yesterday as a result of its global partnership with Reuters, Endace’s technology – coupled with that of partner Trading Metrics – underpins the Reuters Latency Monitor. But just who is Endace, and what does their technology really do? IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to Endace vice president of marketing Steve Gleave to find out more…
NYSE Euronext Acquires IVRS, Launches Prime Source To Capitalise on Market’s Transparency Focus
LIFFE (Holdings), a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext, has acquired Independent Valuation and Risk Services (IVRS) for some £700,000, plus a deferred consideration element. Hard on the heels of this acquisition, NYSE Euronext has also launched Prime Source, a new independent valuation service. IVRS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lombard Risk Management, provider of software and…
Trepp, Markit Partner for Transparency on Synthetic CMBSs
Trepp, provider of CMBS and commercial mortgage information, analytics and technology, and Markit, supplier of independent data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing, have forged a partnership they say will bring greater transparency and accuracy to the valuation of synthetic Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBSs). Under the agreement, Markit’s valuation input template will be integrated…
A-Team Analysis: Can S&P Solve the Problem of Entity Identification Where the ISO Process Has Failed?
Another month, another twist in the tail of the International Business Entity Identifier (IBEI) story. In fact, there could be two twists this month if the Swift CIVIC initiative does turn out to be on the skids. As reported extensively in Reference Data Review last year (in the October 2007 issue among others), the ISO-led…
Swift Admits CIVIC Plans “Under Review”, as Observers Suggest Business Case Proving Difficult
As Reference Data Review went to press, it emerged that Swift could be having second thoughts about pressing ahead with previously-announced plans to allocate BIC-like codes to funds – dubbed CIVICs (Reference Data Review first brought to light Swift’s CIVIC plans as far back as September 2006). In light of the failure of the ISO…
Taking the Risk Out of Mutual Fund Compliance By Jeff Levering, Vice President, NewRiver
Selling a mutual fund requires complex mutual fund information to be summarised down into data that sellers can understand, which is most often driven by a technology or data warehouse infrastructure. Missing and/or bad mutual fund data is nothing new, but it has recently garnered the attention of regulators as it was directly responsible for…
Xignite, Telekurs Forge Corporate Actions Data Distribution Deal
Xignite, provider of financial web services for mission-critical corporate applications, has formed a partnership with Telekurs Financial to provide reciprocal services integrating Xignite’s financial web services with Telekurs Valordata Feed (VDF). The partnership with Xignite will enhance the accuracy of its existing XigniteMaster and web service by using Telekurs VDF’s master data and corporate actions…
Patent Pending Ref Data Utility Offers Risk Mitigation, Seeks Backers
The inventors of an ambitious plan to create a risk mitigating Reference Data Utility for the securities industry are entering a new phase of marketing for their business venture in the belief that financial institutions can be galvanised by the lure of reduced capital and collateral requirements into solving once and for all the age-old…
Reuters Adds OTC Equity Options Prices to DataScope Select
In its third quarterly release this year of its hosted data management and extraction platform DataScope Select, Reuters has incorporated what it says are significant enhancements to the solution in the areas of OTC equity options pricing and counterparty data. The evaluated pricing services within Reuters DataScope Select have been extended with the provision of…
Interactive Data Leverages Xcitek Acquisition to Offer Intraday Corporate Actions Data
Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data business has introduced in North America a new service for delivery of corporate actions information to clients throughout the day. The service leverages Interactive Data’s acquisition of Xcitek earlier this year (Reference Data Review, April 2007); intraday delivery of corporate actions data was already on the Xcitek product…