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Thomson Reuters Valuation Navigator Increases Transparency of Evaluated Pricing
Thomson Reuters has partnered with data analytics specialist Trovo to produce Thomson Reuters Valuation Navigator, a software solution that automates reference data and pricing workflows, and allows users to search and analyse data from a wide range of data sources, compare multiple pricing options and optimise valuation and risk activities. The solution is data vendor…
Opinion: Unique Data Types Needed for Capital Markets
By Robert Iati, Senior Director, Capital Markets, Dun & Bradstreet We’ve been hearing about the importance of Big Data for what seems like decades, but investment banks often approach data projects with insufficient attention to reference data. Typically, this is due to a prominent focus on ultra-fast market data and a limited amount of discretionary…
Getting to Grips with Risk Data: The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book
By Zoe Schiff If you thought BCBS 239 would be a challenge, you should take a look at the proposals currently being formulated as part of the Basel group’s Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB). Happily, this will be part of what we’ll be talking about next Tuesday, when A-Team hosts a webinar on…
Thomson Reuters Offers Three Open Source APIs and Plans More
Thomson Reuters has simplified access to its data feeds and services with a family of open source application programming interfaces (APIs) that are designed to help developers create innovative applications quickly and more easily than was previously possible. The Elektron API family is a response to customer interest in open source APIs that can be…
Opinion: Why the Client Onboarding Conundrum will Fuel Master Data Management in Capital Markets
By Neill Vanlint, Managing Director of EMEA and Asia, GoldenSource Taking one step forward and two steps back is what financial institutions must feel they are doing at the moment. You could be forgiven for thinking that finding a solution to manage all reference, counterparty, client and customer data in one place ticks all the…
Rimes Employs Economic Framework to Calculate Benefits of Managed Data Services
Rimes Technologies has developed a framework to help potential customers discover the return on investment, payback time and benefits they can achieve by deploying the company’s cloud-based managed data services. The framework results from a Economic Impact study commissioned by Rimes to evaluate the financial impact of the company’s benchmark, reference data and data governance…
CPL Collapses; DTCC’s Avox in Line to Scoop Up Assets
CounterpartyLink is rumoured to have collapsed after falling into financial difficulties and failing to find an investor. Data Management Review understands that DTCC’s Avox is in line to purchase certain assets, thereby eliminating a competitor from the entity data business. A letter was circulated to clients of CounterpartyLink today informing them of the news. It…
DTCC Consolidates Data Products and Provisioning to Deliver DTCC Data Products and Data-As-A-Service
DTCC has embarked on a data management journey that will initially deliver a centralised data provisioning service called DTCC Data Products and later a Data-as-a-Service capability that will transform the way data is provisioned from fixed and custom feed delivery to on-demand data access. DTCC Data Products is a response to client demand for more…
Fidessa Moves Into Low Latency Technology with Direct Market Access Platform
Fidessa has made its first move into the low-latency, low-touch trading technology market with a low-latency direct market access (DMA) platform that is delivered as a managed service and aims to provide brokers with high-performance, scalable and consistent access to global equity and derivatives markets. The platform is the first service to emerge from Fidessa’s…
Opinion: Data Management – Keeping the Financial Market Airborne
By Martijn Groot, VP Product Strategy, Asset Control In this new era of stress testing, how many financial institutions risk being grounded by the financial equivalent of air traffic control for failing to meet the new, challenging risk requirements? The production of risk and stress data is no longer a one off risk management exercise…