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Bank Deploys Aleri Stream-Processing Platform for Ref Data

Stream-processing technology is big news in the market data world, where the demands of algorithmic trading are driving investment in solutions to support high-volume, low-latency, fast-moving environments. To date, it has not been widely suggested that low latency was so important in the context of reference data, but an early sign that streaming technology could…

CounterpartyLink Inks Deal With Nomura International

Nomura International has signed a three-year agreement to take legal entity data from CounterpartyLink. According to the vendor the international arm of the big Japanese bank is using its legal entity data product to validate and enhance its entity reference database. Nomura’s entity data files are compared to the corresponding entity records held by CounterpartyLink,…

Siperian Brings Client Data Management System to Europe

Providers of counterparty and client data management solutions in Europe face new competition from California based Siperian, which in partnership with Deutsche Boerse-owned counterparty data specialist Avox has secured a soon-to-be-announced deal with what it describes as a major European bank. On the back of this, Siperian is beefing up its presence in Europe, opening…

S&P Investigates Pre-packaged Reference Data Solutions to Meet Risk Needs of Buy Side

Standard & Poor’s is exploring the possibility of creating pre-packaged reference data solutions for investment managers seeking cost effective means of complying with the risk and regulatory demands generated by their greater use of alternative asset classes. This follows research carried out by S&P – which has traditionally provided data to the sell side of…

Asset Control Bags E*Trade, Calyon, Sets Sights on Asia-Pacific

As its deal with E*Trade increases its tally of U.S. customers, Netherlands-based data management platform vendor Asset Control is setting its sights on the Asia-Pacific region, as well as planning to leverage its data management platform to create vertical solutions. Asset Control has announced two sales this month. The E*Trade Securities subsidiary of E*Trade Financial…

SunGard Buys Soliton at Last For Data Management Expertise

In a deal which appears to have taken some two years of on-off negotiations to come to fruition, SunGard has acquired the TimeSquare business of Toronto headquartered data management solutions vendor Soliton. TimeSquare becomes part of SunGard’s referencePoint enterprise data management (EDM) managed services and solutions business. SunGard says there are no plans to make…

President Role Propels Ex-SunGard Man Richards to BPS

Dale Richards, the ex-SunGard executive vice-president who launched its enterprise data management strategy, has been named president of BPS (Business Propulsion Systems), provider of enterprise governance, risk and compliance solutions. Since leaving SunGard, the former FAME CEO had been running LakeFront Data Ventures, a company seeking to build a network of small EDM providers. Richards’…

FT Interactive Data Rolls Out Markit Independent Loan Valuations

FT Interactive Data has entered the third phase of its roll-out of data from Markit Group to its clients, under its established partnership with the vendor. FT Interactive Data clients can now access independent valuations of syndicated bank loans via its FTS online portfolio administration service. Markit’s single name CDS and CDS indices data is…

Reuters Trumpets Early Signings For Asian Evaluations Service

Reuters reports strong levels of interest in its recently launched Asian fixed-income evaluated pricing service, and says it has already signed up users. The service covers six currencies – the Australian dollar, the Hong Kong dollar, the Japanese yen, the new Taiwan dollar, the New Zealand dollar and the Singapore dollar – and some 20,000…

The low-down on Sibos Down Under

As reported in the last issue of Reference Data Review, in the build-up to Sibos in Sydney bank owned co-operative Swift had some pretty big ideas about the role it could play in the reference data world. During the event itself, it sought feedback on these plans, and the responses garnered may not have been…