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New S&P Index to Represent the Global Macro/Managed Futures Universe
S&P Indices has launched the S&P Systematic Global Macro Index (SGMI), which aims to reflect price trends of highly liquid global futures, representing the general level of volatility taken by managers in the global macro and managed futures/Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) space. The Index is diversified globally across 37 constituents, falling into the six most…
Interactive Data Brings Local Evaluated Pricing Expertise to Germany
Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that it has expanded its award-winning evaluated pricing services capabilities in Germany. A new team of evaluators based in Interactive Data’s Frankfurt office will provide local market knowledge and expertise in the evaluation of German domestic fixed-income securities in…
Thomson Reuters Marketing Exec Field Departs for Deutsche Bank
The management shake up within data giant Thomson Reuters has not been restricted to those at the top, individuals from many levels have entered and exited through the revolving doors over the last couple of months. One such exit has been strategic marketing manager Tiffany Field (nee Bloor), who last month joined Deutsche Bank as…
UK FSA Finally Launches its Zen System Ahead of November’s AII Reporting Deadline, Details Ref Data Requirements
After a series of delays over the last three years, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has finally launched its new enhanced transaction reporting and market surveillance system for the collection of Alternative Instrument Identifier (AII) codes, as required under the upcoming 13 November deadline for the reporting of these new codes. This new identification…
XTF Data Now Available on RIMES
RIMES Technologies, the award-winning benchmark data service provider, today announced that it has become the first data integrator to offer ETF ratings and analytical data from XTF, the global research and advisory firm dedicated to helping investors harness the power of Exchange Traded Funds. XTF offers a focused range of technical and fundamental research, financial…
FPGA Momentum Accelerates!
Perhaps it’s just me reacting to NIWeek, which just concluded here in Austin, but I seem to be noticing the F word – for FPGA (that’s Field Programmable Gate Array for you x86 guys) – cropping up more and more these days. Could it be that these specialised ‘go faster, run cooler’ chips that have…
Frontier Expands its Investment Team
Frontier Investment Management (“Frontier”), the multi-asset and alternative investment specialist, has appointed Simon Liang as an analyst on its investment team. Simon joins from Bfinance UK, the investment consultant, where he provided analysis on fund managers and their investment strategies across all asset classes for institutional investors. In his new role at Frontier, Simon will…
UBS Launches UBS-MISTRAL Family of Innovative Active Interest Rate Indices
This week, UBS launches the Multi Indicator Short Term Rate Algorithm (UBS-MISTRAL) indices. Going beyond traditional trend following, UBS-MISTRAL identifies the underlying fundamental drivers of trends in interest rates, using a diversified set of leading indicators to take positions in interest rate futures. The indices are transparent to participating clients and will be published on…
Swift and DTCC Face a Long Road Towards LEI Implementation, Says Gresham’s Errington
Ahead of this year’s Sibos in Toronto and in light of its involvement in the Office of Financial Research’s (OFR) legal entity identification (LEI) standards project, Reference Data Review is speaking to a range of industry participants about Swift’s involvement in the entity ID space. Chris Errington, CEO of Gresham Computing, explains that the network provider is…
CFTC’s Data Standards Subcommittee Chair Kirilenko Doles Out ‘To Do’ Lists for Each of its Four Working Groups
As well as a public meeting on the subject of swaps data repositories, last week also saw the first meeting of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) data standardisation subcommittee, which is chaired by CFTC chief economist Andrei Kirilenko. Attendees discussed the current obstacles to entity and product identification in the market, how international agreement…