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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: DMS Fever
It’s finally here…. Our Data Management Summit takes place in London next Tuesday, March 12. It’s taken a lot of begging, bribing and cajoling, but I think I can say that we’ve got the best possible line-up for the event. In short, for anyone in the reference / risk / enterprise and related technologies space,…
EDI Teams with Derivative Partners to Deliver Independent Valuation of Structured Products
Exchange Data International (EDI) has forged an agreement with Derivative Partners to offer an independent valuation service for structured products and complex derivatives. The service was introduced this week in response to increasing client demand for independent portfolio valuations designed to meet regulatory requirements for transparency. Zurich-based Derivative Partners provides daily valuations, calculating over 200,000…
Avox Passes One Million Entity Milestone with Plans for Further Growth and Additional Services
Avox has posed a 25% year-on-year gain in the number of entities it has validated, bringing its total database of entities with validated reference data to over a million. The million-entity milestone comes against the backdrop of the imminent launch of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) standard, which was the subject of last week’s…
Intel Enters Hadoop Fray
Intel has introduced its own distribution of Hadoop, incorporating enterprise level features for security, performance and management. The IT giant has also announced a number of partners for its offering, which it will sell on a subscription basis, ranging from the likes of Cisco Systems and Dell, to MarkLogic, SAP and Teradata. As part of…
Trillium Software Responds to Regulatory Pressure with Latest Release of Software System
Trillium Software’s latest release of Trillium Software System reflects growing requirements for self-service data management across financial firms’ lines of business as well as the need for speed in handling greater volumes of data. Version 14 of the software is available immediately and has been developed not only as a flexible tool for line of…
Cusip Global Services Collaboration with DTCC in LEI System Brings Association of National Numbering Agencies into Play
Collaboration between Cusip Global Services (CGS) and DTCC to augment the latter’s role as a pre-Local Operating Unit in the global legal entity identifier (LEI) system brings the Association of National Numbering Agencies (Anna) back into play in LEI development. CGS is not only the issuer of Cusip numbers covering securities, issuers, obligors and guarantors,…
Experts Debate the Timeline, Benefits and Challenges of the Global LEI System
The expert panel on this week’s A-Team Hot Topics webinar on global legal entity identifier (LEI) expects the new standard to be fully operational by the end of 2013, as it builds momentum following next month’s official roll-out. With the establishment of a Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) early this year, the creation of a Central…
Perseus Beats Rivals to Live London to Frankfurt Microwave Service
Perseus Telecom has announced that it has been in live operation since last October with a London to Frankfurt microwave service linking key marketplaces in each financial centre. The announcement comes as rival Colt Technology Services confirmed to Low-Latency.com that its microwave service – based on a network built by Custom Connect MW – is…
Anova Readies Hybrid Laser/Millimetre-wave Low-Latency Network for Reliability
Anova Technologies has teamed with AOptix to roll out low-latency networks based on an integrated combination of laser-through-air and millimetre wave technologies. The combination provides the low latency benefits of emerging wireless networks, with the reliability of fibre optic communications, making it attractive to algorithmic and high frequency trading operations. Under their agreement, Chicago-based Anova will…
Talking Reference Data With Andrew Delaney: Markit Set to Join Corporate Actions Fray as It Ponders DTCC’s GCA VS
At the risk of sounding like the proverbial Boy Who Cried Wolf, it now seems that Markit is at due diligence phase in its attempt to acquire the DTCC’s Global Corporate Actions Validation Service (GCA VS). You’ll recall that just a few weeks ago Markit abandoned its interest in EDM stalwart Asset Control, ostensibly having…