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A-Team Analysis: Will the Securities Data Model Fly?

At the Sibos Standards Forum in Sydney earlier this month, securities data came under the spotlight during a panel session designed to fill delegates in on the progress of ISO TC68/SC4/WG11, the ISO working group charged with the development of ISO 19312. For the uninitiated, ISO 19312 is the planned standard for financial instrument data….

CounterpartyLink Inks Deal With Nomura International

Nomura International has signed a three-year agreement to take legal entity data from CounterpartyLink. According to the vendor the international arm of the big Japanese bank is using its legal entity data product to validate and enhance its entity reference database. Nomura’s entity data files are compared to the corresponding entity records held by CounterpartyLink,…

CicadaRisk in Transition To Independent Entity

An announcement is expected within weeks concerning the repositioning of CicadaRisk, provider of risk management solutions based on Algorithimics’ risk technology and Cicada’s data management technology. The objective is to enable CicadaRisk to operate more as an independent entity within the financial markets vertical of its principal financial backer Investors Guaranty. CicadaRisk has operated as…

Swift to Build Hosted Reference Data Repository, Explore SSIs and Extend BIC to Hedge Funds

Swift is developing a hosted reference data repository to be available on Swiftnet. As part of its 2010 strategy, the co-operative has identified reference data as an important “adjacency” to its primary business lines, an activity on which it should focus to support the ongoing improvement of the quality of messages carried on its network….

Threadneedle Leverages Clean Data for Performance Project

Threadneedle Asset Management is implementing the Eagle Investment Systems performance measurement solution, based upon the foundation of a centralised source of consolidated reference data created using Eagle’s Pace data hub and portfolio management system. Following a project kicked off in Q1 this year, the investment manager has achieved compliance with the CFA Institute’s Global Investment…

What does reference data mean to you?

The concept of enterprise data management is maturing. As Dale Richards, ex of SunGard and now leading a collaboration of small data management software companies under the banner of Lakefront Data Ventures, points out, the pressures of new business development are forcing a redefinition of what EDM means, and what tools are required to implement…

Holmes to Head Up New Cicada Subsidiary Focused on Compliance

Cicada has created a new subsidiary, Profiler Solutions, to focus on compliance. Headed by Cicada executive vice president Hubert Holmes, the new business unit will offer software solutions to help firms meet regulatory requirements around know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML), based on its Profiler solution. As reported in Reference Data Review last…

Reuters Says Detail Will Differentiate Counterparty Service

The counterparty data service under development at Reuters will be differentiated from others in the market by its scope, the level of detail of its information and its ease of integration, according to the vendor. As exclusively reported in Reference Data Review last month, Reuters is currently building the service in conjunction with a third…

CB.Net Adds Routing BICs to Directory to Aid SEPA Compliance

CB.Net is adding Swift-enabled routing BICs to its international payments directory BankSearchPlus, part of the CB.Net Payments Reference Data Service. The new capability, supported by the addition of an extra field to allow the identification of the routing BIC, is available as part of a standard upgrade to users of the vendor’s web-based service and…

Reuters Enters Counterparty Data Race, New Service Planned in 2007

Entering the counterparty data race, Reuters is developing a dedicated counterparty data service scheduled for launch in the first half of 2007. The vendor is working in partnership with an as yet unnamed third-party counterparty content specialist. According to Kevin Bradshaw, head of enterprise information at Reuters, an audited set of counterparty information, which can…