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Reuters Launches Counterparty Service, Ties with Complinet
A month or two later than originally planned Reuters has taken the wraps off its counterparty data service, launching Reuters DataScope for Counterparty and Compliance and trumpeting a pre-launch customer signing and advanced talks with a number of other potential clients. The vendor has also unveiled its specialist partner for embedded sanctions lists as Complinet….
EDM Council Takes Baby Steps Towards Ontology and Metrics
The EDM Council has recently taken steps towards achieving two key requirements for industry-wide implementation of enterprise data management – a standardised data ontology and data quality metrics. Members of the EDM Council are participating in a working group formed by the DTCC to define and standardise the data terms and definitions included in its…
Reuters Enterprise Data Likely to Be Reference Data Force Post-Merger
Thomson Corp.’s agreed acquisition of Reuters, which remains subject to regulatory approvals, would essentially ‘reverse’ Reuters into Thomson Financial, creating a financial information business larger than current market leader Bloomberg (Market Data Insight, May 2007). Following the proposed merger – which envisages Reuters CEO Tom Glocer taking the helm of the overall Thomson-Reuters corporation and…
Interactive Data Leverages Pricing, Reference Data for MiFID Offer
Interactive Data Corp is leveraging the assets of its Pricing and Reference Data unit, as well as those of its Real-Time Services group, to offer a range of services aimed at helping clients meet their obligations under the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). Interactive Data believes its real-time and reference data services units…
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SmartCo, a French software house, and Telekurs Financial have integrated Telekurs’ Valordata Feed (VDF) data flow into SmartCo’s Smart Financial Data Hub. Smart Financial Data Hub is designed to enable centralised data management, data quality control, access authorisation, real-time data analysis and the management of multi-contributor functionality. “We are always interested in interfacing our data…
CMA Rolls Out Full Term Structures for CMA DataVision
CMA has enhanced CMA DataVision, its same-day consensus-based price verification data service for CDS, indices and tranches. Working with several clients and a team of industry experts, CMA says it has developed a multi-step modelling process to enable it to derive price points and generate a full-term structure with a high degree of accuracy. Using…
Interactive Data Closes Acquisition Of Xcitek Market Data
Interactive Data Corporation has closed the acquisition of the assets comprising the market data division of Xcitek and the market data assets of its affiliate Xcitax for $25.3 million in cash (Reference Data Review, March and April 2007). As part of the initial integration efforts, Xcitek’s services will be marketed as Interactive Data Xcitek.
Swiss Re Asset Management Implements DSTi Data Platform
DST International’s (DSTi’s) Investment Data Platform on Oracle has been implemented at Swiss Re Asset Management (SRAM). Swiss Re has been a DSTi client for nine years. DSTi’s specialist asset management technology has been used to build an investment data hub to streamline the firm’s existing complex data architecture. The solution is comprised of a…
Eagle Joins Charles River Partner Integration Programme
Eagle Investment Systems has become a member of Charles River Development’s (CRD’s) partner integration certification program. The certification is based largely upon the development of standardized interfaces between the Charles River Investment Management System and Eagle PACE and Eagle STAR. The interface between the platforms provides a bi-directional flow of reference and accounting data and…
Interactive Data to Acquire Xcitek Market Data Business for $25.3M
As predicted in Reference Data Review last month, Interactive Data Corporation has agreed to buy the market data division of Xcitek and the market data assets of its affiliate Xcitax for $25.3 million in cash. The acquisition does not include XcitekSolutionsPlus (XSP), the corporate actions software company affiliated with Xcitek, or Xcitek Consulting Services, both…