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Bloomberg Bolsters Credit Capabilities with CMA DataVision…
Bloomberg has added CMA’s same day closing credit default swap (CDS) prices – CMA DataVision – to the Bloomberg Professional service. CMA DataVision provides data for more than 2000 single name CDSs, indices and tranches, delivered by 5pm London and 5pm New York time. Bloomberg believes that the integration of CMA DataVision with existing credit…
AMF Releases CA Recommendations
The Asset Managers Forum (AMF) of the Bond Market Association has released an exposure draft of recommended best practices for processing corporate actions. One recommendation is that custodians use at least two sources for corporate actions information and cross-check them for accuracy. The comment period for the draft ends on November 30.
…While Reuters Adds CDS Prices from Bear, Stearns
Reuters clients will now be able to receive credit default swaps and interest rate swaps pricing evaluations from Bear Stearns Pricing Direct. The addition of PricingDirect evaluations to Reuters Pricing and Reference Data is, says Reuters, the first step of a broader strategy to provide its customers with independent credit derivatives pricing based on a…
LSE Defends New Pricing Model For Corporate Actions Data
The London Stock Exchange refutes the suggestion that its new pricing policy for subscriptions to its corporate actions data by distributors is simply an attempt to extract more revenues from data vendors. According to Mark Husler, head of reference data at the exchange, the new policy, due to take effect in April 2007, is the…
Swift Not Fast Enough For Reference Data Role
Swift’s core strengths of security and resilience are also the major impediments to it fulfilling its aims in the securities reference data space, where it is speed that counts. This was one key message delivered during a panel session entitled “A new age for reference data – collaboration”, which took place on the first day…
CicadaRisk in Transition To Independent Entity
An announcement is expected within weeks concerning the repositioning of CicadaRisk, provider of risk management solutions based on Algorithimics’ risk technology and Cicada’s data management technology. The objective is to enable CicadaRisk to operate more as an independent entity within the financial markets vertical of its principal financial backer Investors Guaranty. CicadaRisk has operated as…
Mellon’s Harkins Offers Guide To Successful Team Building
People – specifically, finding the right ones, training them appropriately and hanging onto them – were key themes at this month’s ‘Reference Data Management: Challenges and Solutions’ symposium hosted by Telekurs in New York. The symposium, also featuring Dun & Bradstreet’s Keith Webster, Telekurs’ Barry Raskin and Reference Data Review’s own Andrew Delaney, offered insight…
ADP Securities Database Tops 8 Million Instruments
The securities master database ADP Brokerage Services maintains and provides to users of its bureau based Global Processing Solution now contains more than 8 million securities. While 14 GPS clients take advantage of the service ADP also provides it to two non-GPS clients, and has recently secured a contract for its provision to a non-bureau…
EDI Adds GlobeTax Non-Resident Tax Rates to Reference Data Product
Exchange Data International has signed up to StatRate, a new product from withholding tax specialist GlobeTax, in order to include non-resident statutory withholding tax rate data in its securities master file product. StatRate is GlobeTax’s second reference data product. EDI is already a user of its first, e-TaxData Online (Reference Data Review, June 2005), and…
DSTi Integrates Interface To Reuters DataScope Select
DST International will offer an integrated interface to Reuters DataScope Select as part of its investment accounting, performance measurement, risk management and data management solutions. Reuters DataScope Select provides access to global pricing, validated terms and conditions, historical data content and cross-reference data for a range of financial instruments.