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Reuters Targets Europe With New Evaluations Service
Reuters is targeting the evaluations pricing market in Europe, with the addition of European-issued debt securities evaluations to its DataScope reference data service. The service will be bring the vendor into a space currently dominated by FT Interactive Data, and increasingly focused on by Standard & Poor’s. As reported by Reference Data Review at the…
FT Interactive Data Results Show Continued Growth
FT Interactive Data’s parent Interactive Data Corp. has reported results for the first quarter ended March 31. Its revenues grew 8.5 percent over last year’s quarter to $86 million. Its North American revenues grew 8.5 percent due to continued demand for evaluated and descriptive services. Europe showed improved performance with revenues growing by 8.7 percent.
Paris Moves On From Deutsche Bank
David Paris has left Deutsche Bank where he was global head of information management services within the bank’s global technology and operations group, based in London. In this role he had worked on the data management initiatives focused on meeting regulatory requirements of KYC and Anti-Money Laundering. No word yet on where he plans to…
SunGard Adds ETF Data to Fame
SunGard has added U.S. and international exchange traded funds (ETF) data from the DTCC to its Fame Time Series Database. The data is collected each night as sponsors of ETFs report net asset value and component information to the DTCC’s subsidiary, National Securities Clearing Corp. (NSCC). Fame collects and enhances this data to be maintained…
SIIA/FISD to Findac: This industry ain’t big enough for the both of us.
Despite much fanfare, the idea of another industry association focused on market and reference data in the form of Findac has petered out before it even started. After testing the waters for a couple of months, Mike Atkin’s Financial Data Coalition (RDR, February 2005) concluded that it would not be able achieve critical mass, and…
Standard & Poor’s ‘Pushes’ Cusips to Clients
A new service from Standard & Poor’s will use push technology to deliver Cusip identifiers for competitive and negotiated municipal bond deals to fixed income and equity market participants every 15 minutes. With the New Issues On the Web (S&P Now) service, says Jim Taylor, managing director at S&P, “we are fundamentally changing the delivery…
Esler Leaves Bear Stearns
Peter Esler is no longer with Bear Stearns where he held the position of managing director, global head of market data services. Here he had been involved in a reference data management services evaluation. His next move has not yet been decided.
Brewin Dophin Takes Telekurs’ ISO 15022 Corporate Actions Data
UK stockbroker Brewin Dolphin has signed up to take corporate actions data from Telekurs Financial. The data will be delivered on a daily basis in the ISO 15022 format.
Perry Re-Emerges Royal Bank of Scotland
Derek Perry has re-emerged at Royal Bank of Scotland as manager, operations change management. This follows a brief stint at BearingPoint, prior to which he was at Capco where he worked on reference data services.
Asset Control Secures Standard Chartered, Standard Bank for PriceMaster
Asset Control has secured two new clients for its AC PriceMaster for market risk data. The service was rolled out at Standard Chartered in six months. It is used to generate risk factors and curves, as well as standardizing and consolidating market data, sourced from multiple vendors and internal sources to support risk management functions,…