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S&P and SuperDerivatives Partner to Create Largest Valuations Portal
Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations, a global provider of independent securities evaluations and derivatives specialist SuperDerivatives have established a sales and marketing alliance to target the fixed income securities and OTC and exchange-traded derivatives market. The resulting combined offering represents the largest independent valuation portal in terms of both geographic and asset class coverage. The…
Interactive Data Makes Pricing Data Available Through ValueLink’s PriceValidation Service
Interactive Data Corporation(IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, is making data from its Pricing and Reference Data business available through ValueLink’s PriceValidation service, the company is announcing on booth # 1405. Through PriceValidation, ValueLink acts as a service facilitator taking raw data from customers’ chosen data vendors and subjecting…
Eaton Vance Selects Eagle to Build Investment Systems Data Warehouse
Boston-based investment management firm Eaton Vance has implemented Eagle Investment Systems’ data management and mutual fund performance solution in order to build an investment systems data warehouse. The selection of Eagle’s offering is to support the investment manager’s plans to outsource the servicing of its institutional business to Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon)…
Markit Offers Free Access to RED for Smaller CDS Firms to Encourage Broader Buy Side Buy In
Data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing vendor Markit has released a new license for its Reference Entity Database (RED) for smaller buy side firms. Under the terms of the new license, asset managers with low credit default swap (CDS) trading volumes that use DTCC Deriv/SERV for trade confirmation will gain free access to…
EDM Releases Progress Update on Faulty Data Pilot and Details of Semantic Repository Project
It has been a busy month for the EDM Council, not only has it released an interim report with IBM on the findings of its project to measure the performance implications of missing or faulty data on key functions within financial institutions, it has also released details of plans for a new online semantic repository….
Markit Launches Counterparty/Compliance Documentation Library
Data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing vendor Markit has launched a new documentation library that allows financial institutions to post, manage and share compliance, counterparty credit and regulatory documents securely. Called Markit Document Exchange, the new service automates KYC, anti-money laundering and compliance certification processes in order to reduce risk and lower operational…
SEC to Mandate Adoption of XBRL Financial Reporting For Large Publicly Listed US Firms
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 by 15 December. This follows the SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting’s report, released in February, which recommended that companies should use XBRL to tag their financial…
Introduction of BEI Beyond Industry’s Level of Maturity, Research Warns
Regardless of an understanding of the benefits of introducing a standard business entity identifier (BEI), the industry is as yet unconvinced that the cost of its introduction is justifiable. That is the message that the EDM Council, consultancy firm Bearingpoint and Swift heard loud and clear during interviews conducted with 15 international financial institutions as…
EDM Council Releases Details of Semantic Repository Project
The EDM Council has released a report concerning its plans for a new online semantic repository, which will identify all data attribute terms and definitions used by financial institutions for business processing, investment decisions, scenario modelling, risk management and portfolio valuation. The initial draft of the repository is due to be released at the end…
SEC’s Cox to provide guidelines for adoption of XBRL
Christopher Cox, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman, is expected to release recommendations this week about how US companies can adopt extensible business reporting language (XBRL) for their financial reporting. This follows the SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting’s report, released in February, which recommended that companies should use XBRL to tag…