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Thomson Financial Jumps into Bond Evaluations; Adds Standard & Poor’s Data to Intraday Snapshot
Thomson Financial is set to add Standard & Poor’s European bond valuations data to the intraday pricing feed it launched late last year. The move – which is to be announced as early as the first week in July – adds yet another player to the bond valuations marketplace, currently dominated by Interactive Data Corp.,…
Marks to Quit Swift
Catherine Marks has resigned from Swift to pursue other options, and will leave the company this month. She held the position of SwiftSolutions Manager, Asset Servicing, and has been instrumental in dragging Swift into the world of data distribution. Before joining Swift, she spent several years at Telekurs, Telesphere and Bridge Information Systems.
And You Thought Your Structured Data Was in a Mess….
As the world of reference data moves to a phase of relative maturity, the landscape is becoming littered with the usual ‘after-dinner circuit’ of case studies, interviews and Powerpoints gloating about how the data challenge has finally been met. Instead of the chaos we uncovered three years ago – has it been that long? –…
Former FTID Europe Sales Head Peck Emerges to Head Quantifi’s New London Office
Credit derivatives analytics provider Quantifi has opened its new London office and named John Peck, formerly global sales director at Informa Global Markets, as head of European sales. Reporting directly to Rohan Douglas, founder and CEO of Quantifi, Peck will focus on building on Quantifi’s already established London presence and supporting its aim of product…
AIM’s Gain to Carry EDI Reference, Pricing Data
Exchange Data International (EDI) has made its reference, pricing and corporate actions data available via Aim Software’s Gain reference data management platform. Gain already integrates data from such sources as Reuters DataScope, Telekurs Valoren Data Feed (VDF) and FT Interactive Data.
Cicada Upgrades Profiler Platform
Cicada has upgraded Cicada Profiler software, adding improved capabilities to meet firms’ anti-money laundering and know your customer compliance needs. Release 1.1 of Cicada Profiler introduces an ownership checklist that can trigger collection of corporate ownership data, for example, based on customer type. The new version supports different types of ownership definitions and supports one-to-many…
CheckFree Sets ISO 15022 Interface to Fidelity ActionsXchange
CheckFree Corp. has introduced an ISO 15022-compliant interface to the Fidelity ActionsXchange corporate actions data feed from its CheckFree eVent corporate actions processing platform. CheckFree eVent allows customers to receive, validate and process corporate actions, from announcement through entitlement calculation to notification and instruction processing. The ActionsXchange ActionService data feed integrates data from multiple commercial…
TheMuniCenter Picks FT Interactive Data For Reference Data
TheMuniCenter will utilize FT Interactive Data’s Securities Information Retrieval Service (SIRS) as the primary source of reference data for its electronic fixed income trading marketplace. Clients of TheMuniCenter will now be able to access a wide range of fixed income securities, including U.S. government, municipal and corporate bonds. The new service will also be leveraged…
Markit Buys Automated Trade Processing in Communicator Acquisition
Markit Group has acquired Communicator, a New York-based provider of automated systems for OTC derivatives trade processing. The deal will enable Markit to combine its pricing data and valuations in credit, equity, OTC derivatives and structured finance with Communicator’s automated trade processing systems. The transaction will provide clients with enhanced trading and risk management capabilities…
London Stock Exchange Releases Sedol Validation Tools
The London Stock Exchange has launched two new products, SEDOL Validator (SEVAL) and the Data Validation Service (DVS). SEVAL enables users to validate their securities masterfiles against the SEDOL Masterfile held at the Exchange. The DVS is a generic data reconciliation engine that enables users to rapidly validate multiple sources of data. SEVAL and the…