A-Team Insight Blogs The latest content from across the platform
LEI Regulatory Oversight Committee Details First Decisions on LEI Relationship Data and Interim LEI System
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) initiative has endorsed the accounting consolidation approach as a first step for the development of much needed relationship data for the LEI. It has also provided more detail on the selection of board members for the LEI Foundation that will operate the Central…
Low-Latency Summits: Looking Back and Forward
We held the latest Low-Latency Summit in London a couple of weeks ago and already the memories are distant ones. But a lot was covered, from ROI on latency investment to trading in Russia. We recorded the entire proceedings to allow you to recap the experience, or to hear what you missed. We’re now looking…
StatPro Selects SIX Financial Information to Support Equity Pricing Snapshot Service
StatPro has selected SIX Financial Information’s intraday pricing service to automate delivery of its delayed equity pricing snapshot service and expand the universe of data coverage within the service. The portfolio analytics specialist considered a number of potential partners before selecting SIX Financial Information on the basis of its high-quality data, and has dropped previous…
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…