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Microsoft’s MiFID Pitch Touts TAP Among Partner Solutions
Microsoft has set out its MiFID stall, and has identified reference data and client classification as two of the eight MiFID related challenges it wants to help financial institutions address through its initiative to offer “mix and match” MiFID solutions in conjunction with a range of partners. TAP Solutions, provider of the Microsoft based TAPMaster…
BoNY/Mellon Merger Brings Rivals Eagle and Netik Under One Roof
The merger of Bank of New York and Mellon Financial Corp. not only creates the world’s largest securities servicing and asset management firm globally, it also brings under one roof two fiercely rival data warehouse providers, Mellon-owned Eagle Investment Systems and Bank of New York-owned Netik, calling into question the future strategy of the firms’…
SunGard Lets Go EDM Experts Odho and Ord, Streamlines FAME
SunGard has made redundant members of the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) group within its Enterprise Solutions Group – Marc Odho and Rob Ord – as well as a small number of people from within the FAME business unit as part of a streamlining exercise. While the shedding of such high profile data experts has prompted…
Siperian, CounterpartyLink Partner on Legal Entity Data Management
California based Siperian has forged an alliance with CounterpartyLink under which CounterpartyLink’s global legal entity data can be fed directly into Siperian’s counterparty master data management solution Siperian Hub. According to the partners, this alliance will support financial institutions’ efforts to comply with anti-money laundering, know your customer and Basel II regulations as well as…
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…
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,…
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…