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ICMA Ltd Plans Data Products, Extension Of TRAX2 to More Instruments
Data products will be at the heart of a new raft of offerings being developed by ICMA Ltd, the market services division of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA). In an effort to more effectively utilise the data assets it has acquired through its provision of the TRAX trade matching and transaction reporting system for…
CUSIP Service Bureau’s New Web-Based System Streamlines Request Process
The CUSIP Service Bureau (CSB), the provider of unique issuer and instrument identifiers operated for the American Bankers Association by Standard & Poor’s (S&P), has introduced CUSIP Request, a new web-based system for processing requests for securities identifiers. Together with its internal IT team, S&P created a web-based prototype that enabled customers to attach documents…
Counterparty Data: Finding its Rightful Place in the Sun at Last, As Revenue Generation Gains Hit Home
Progress with industry-level efforts to create a universal standard for entity identification may be going nowhere fast, but this is not preventing financial institutions from undertaking projects to get their counterparty data in order. As a result, counterparty data is fast losing its reputation as the poor relation of the reference data family. As Mike…
ATD Takes Cleansed CA Data From Fidelity ActionsXchange
Automated Trading Desk (ATD) has signed up for cleansed US domestic equity corporate actions information from Fidelity ActionsXchange, via its ActionService product. After a trial of the corporate actions solution, ATD made its decision to go with Fidelity ActionsXchange based on its timeliness, data accuracy and ease of integration into its own system, according to…
Siperian Partners with Capco, Integrates with Lombardi for BPM
California-based master data management (MDM) provider Siperian says its effort to penetrate the financial services space is gathering momentum, as it signs new clients applying its solution for client on-boarding, risk management, corporate actions processing and compliance. The vendor has also entered into strategic partnerships with Capco and New Jersey-based business and technology consulting firm…
Counterparty/Client Data Efforts Kicked Up a Notch to Support Proactive Risk Management, Report Finds
Proactive risk management is a key driver for investment in improving client and counterparty data, finds a new report from A-Team Group, sponsored by GoldenSource. While it has been well publicised that regulations like KYC and AML have forced firms to pay tactical attention to client and counterparty data, it is now clear that there…
Ness Adds Corporate Actions Functionality to Financial Data Enterprise Solution
Ness Technologies has unveiled an enhanced version of its enterprise data management platform, Financial Data Enterprise (FDE), developed by Ness Innovative Business Services (Ness IBS). The new version, FDE 4.5, includes features such as processing of corporate actions, dynamic creation and set-up of instruments and asset classes, enhanced data quality management and streamlined workflows for…
A case of mistaken identity?
Another month, another MiFID-related reference data issue for practitioners to get their knickers in a twist about. As Reference Data Review went to press, several of our moles within the marketplace came to us to express their horror at the proposed Alternative Instrument Identifier (AII) for use in identifying derivatives in transaction reports. One source…
EDM Evolves to Cover Workflow Orchestration, Study Finds
Enterprise data management (EDM) is entering a new phase, progressing from a goal of collating, cleansing and storing data, and evolving into a broader strategy encompassing workflow orchestration and subsequent distribution to downstream applications. This is one of the key findings in a new white paper produced by A-Team Group and sponsored by Reuters. The…
Complex Event Processing – It’s More Than Algo Trading
Part 4 of 4 [Don concludes this series by looking at CEP applications beyond the financial markets] A Few Examples Beyond Capital Markets Financial services is fundamentally about information. As a result, there is probably no end to the amount of use cases which will ultimately take advantage of CEP. At a minimum, wherever there…