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McGraw Hill Financial’s Split from S&P’s Ratings Agency Signals its High Hopes for Data, Pricing and Analytics
The decision taken by Standard & Poor’s to split its data, pricing and analytics business from its ratings agency business, and to rebrand it under the new moniker of McGraw Hill Financial, is a further signal that the vendor has high hopes for this area of its business. Given the flack that the ratings agencies…
ANNA’s Extension of the IGI Represents Serious Potential as the OFR’s LEI, Says WMD’s Heer
Markus Heer, managing director of German data vendor WMDatenservice (see his appointment to the role back in 2008) and vice chairman of the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA), reckons ANNA’s bid for the US Office of Financial Research’s legal entity identification standard stands a good chance, given its position as an ISO standard and…
ProFinance Chooses SIX Telekurs Data for its Bond Solutions Software
SIX Telekurs, a financial information provider is pleased to announce a partnership with ProFinance Services, a financial advisory firm providing financial research and investment solutions, that will bring together their experience in data collection and investment solution tools. Banks and non-banks will be offered innovative solutions for the analysis and selection of financial assets. Built…
Bank of Beijing Undertakes New Initiative to Incorporate Accuity’s AML Solutions
Accuity, the leading provider of payment routing data, anti-money laundering (AML) screening software, and services, is pleased to announce that Bank of Beijing, one of China’s largest commercial banks, has selected Accuity’s Compliance Link and Global WatchList. Compliance Link, Accuity’s modular enterprise-wide interdiction screening solution, and Global WatchList, Accuity’s proprietary collection of sanctions, enhanced due…
Interactive Data Awarded Second Patent For Fair Value Pricing Of An Asset
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that it has been granted a second patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office for the fair value pricing of a financial asset. This patent extends this business process generally to securities that are not actively trading in a…
Eagle Plans Revision of its Mission Statement to Reflect the Importance of ASP
Back in December, Eagle Investment Systems’ president and CEO John Lehner told Reference Data Review that the vendor would be focusing on bolstering its software as a service (SaaS) offering, adding new integration tools and increasing its global coverage this year. In order to reflect this work and the increased importance of its application service provider (ASP)…
2011 US GAAP and SEC Taxonomies Available
The 2011 US GAAP Taxonomy and related taxonomies maintained by the SEC are now available, and companies may submit their interactive data filings to EDGAR using these taxonomies. A listing of all taxonomies available for use, including the 2011 US GAAP taxonomy, is located at http://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/edgartaxonomies.shtml. The EDGAR validation and Previewer have been updated to…
Princeton Financial Optimizes Data Management of Hauck & Aufhaeuser in Record Time
Hauck & Aufhäuser Investment Gesellschaft S.A. (HAIG), a service provider for the conception and administration of funds, needed to replace their fund accounting system while maintaining operation of all business-critical systems. Due to Princeton Financial® Systems? (PFS) extensive experience in this area, they successfully supported HAIG in this project and simultaneously established a system architecture…
Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Improves the Value of Data for Business Processes; Maintains Data Quality Leadership
Trillium Software, a business of Harte-Hanks, continued to be recognised by industry analysts and global customers as a leading data quality solutions provider in 2010. With a focus on how data discovery, data cleansing and data quality impact business process and operations results, Trillium Software clients utilised the award-winning Trillium Software System to discover critical…
Broadridge’s Access Data Introduces Unique Tax Management Solution for Mutual Funds and ETFs
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced a unique tax management solution providing mutual fund managers and ETF sponsors access to data to accurately calculate state tax obligations. Broadridge’s Multi-State Tax Management solution, the first of its kind, collects, organises and tabulates shareholder account data across distribution channels in all 50 states, without divulging specific shareholder information….