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Panic Abates as FSA Says Firms Won’t Have to Use Alternative Code
The UK Financial Services Authority has calmed market practitioners’ fears about the new Alternative Instrument Identifier (AII) for use in identifying some derivative instruments in MiFID transaction reports (Reference Data Review, September 2007) by clarifying that individual firms will not have to use the code for the time being. Rather, reporting entities will just have…
CounterpartyLink Provides Legal Entity Data to Alacra, Joins Money Transfer Networks Association
Alacra, a provider of online business information solutions, has signed an alliance agreement with CounterpartyLink, supplier of global client, counterparty and issuer legal entity reference data. Through this alliance agreement, Alacra’s Concordance and Compliance customers will have access to CounterpartyLink’s full list of maintained reference data. This data is collected from sources, and maintained to…
Politics and Data Ownership Major Issues in Implementing EDM, Sibos Delegates Told
The panel session on enterprise data management at Swift’s Sibos conference in Boston earlier this month was a little light on detail to satisfy the true EDM enthusiast, but as a reference data 101 it was nonetheless a lively and interactive debate, ably facilitated by the EDM Council’s Mike Atkin. A series of audience digivotes…
CUSIP Master File Database Available Online
The CUSIP Service Bureau (CSB) Master File database is now available through Standard & Poor’s SecurityMaster Services, a new web-based delivery platform designed to provide clients with near real-time access to a variety of securities data. With Standard & Poor’s SecurityMaster Services platform, clients will be able to access data directly from the CSB database…
Globalisation Makes Life Harder for Corporate Actions Processors, Sibos Panellists Say
Despite the efforts of industry groups and standardisers in recent years, the job of processing corporate actions is getting harder, not easier. Greater levels of international investment and the growing complexity of the products in which clients are investing are key reasons for this, suggested Justin Chapman, senior vice president at Northern Trust, during a…
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…
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…