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FOW Tradedata Launches MiFID Compliant Futures and Options Symbology
Originally appeared in MiFID Monitor Futures and options reference data vendor FOW Tradedata has added symbology for prescribed European futures and options markets under MiFID’s mandatory transaction reporting requirements to its Xymbology service of Alternative Instrument Identification (AII). Gregg Whitbread, product manager for Xymbology, explains: “It was a natural extension of FOW Tradedata’s service offering…
Long Live STP?
This month I received clarification from our readers that despite years of hearing its doom foretold, STP is not yet dead and buried. In fact, it’s a key driver for investment in reference data management solutions, according to more than half of the respondents to Reference Data Review’s recent online readers’ poll. When asked to…
DTCC to Spearhead XBRL and ISO Semantic Interoperability Drive
Following the announcement last month that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued rules requiring large publicly held US companies to adopt extensible business reporting language (XBRL) for their financial reporting, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has released plans to spearhead a campaign for semantic interoperability between XBRL and ISO message types…
Siperian and GalaxE.Solutions Partner for Employee Master Solution
Business process and decision support systems vendor GalaxE.Solutions and master data management (MDM) platform vendor Siperian have entered into an partnership agreement under which GalaxE.Solutions will be a provider of an employee master solution enabled by Siperian MDM Hub. According to the firms, the enterprise business alliance agreement will help companies quickly deploy the employee…
US Fed and SEC Ratify Data Sharing Agreement
Following months of discussions, the US Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have finally signed a formal agreement that explicitly allows for the two agencies to share information about the inner workings of investment banks. According to the memorandum of understanding, the SEC will provide the Fed with “information and analysis regarding…
FactSet Continues the Hunt for Partner Organisations and Focuses on Promoting IBEI
FactSet Research Systems, a provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications to the global investment community, has indicated that it is on the hunt for other third party vendor partners to extend its content coverage. The vendor is also contemplating joining the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council in the near future to help promote…
Telekurs Financial Partners with Bondweb Malaysia for Fair Value Pricing
Telekurs Financial has signed an agreement with Bondweb Malaysia, the country’s only current bond pricing agency, to integrate Bondweb’s fair value prices into Telekurs’ Valordata Feed (VDF) and Intraday Pricing Service (IPS). Bondweb Malaysia has been offering fair values for approximately 2,000 fixed income bonds traded in ringgit since 2005.The deal with the Malaysian agency…
US Fed and SEC to Draw up Agreement on Data Sharing
The US Federal Reserve and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) are discussing an agreement to revamp the regulation of the US financial markets, which could include drawing up data sharing agreements between the two bodies. The agreement, which is rumoured to be announced this week, is intended to fill gaps in regulatory oversight and increase cooperation…
The heat is on
Tough times lie ahead for the market, but technology and better management of data will continue to be valuable differentiators, delegates to this year’s Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma) Technology Management Conference were told. Although the securities industry has recently experienced billion dollar write-downs, serious reductions in headcount and widespread cost cutting, firms’…
Two Client Wins, a Partnership Agreement and an Upgrade for Eagle
It has been a busy couple of months for Eagle Investment Systems. Not only has the vendor released Version 9 of its data management, investment accounting and performance measurement suite, it has also signed a deal with Sun Microsystems to allow Access to be available via Sun Solaris 10 OS. It has also completed two…