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IDS Uses Evare for Custodian Links, Cleaner Data
To provide higher quality and cleaner data within its hosted portfolio management solution, Integrated Decision Systems (IDS) has chosen Evare to provide custodian interfaces, allowing it to “eliminate the paper and manual data entry,” says Lisa Williams, director of product management, Global Investment Manager at IDS. Evare provides links with global financial institutions for acquiring,…
Mark Your Calendars: CityCompass, RDUG Corporate Actions Briefing
CityCompass is hosting a briefing on March 3rd, supported by Reference Data Review, to debate the issues raised in RDUG’s Interim White Paper from its Corporate Actions Working Group. The white paper summarises the work carried out to date within the practitioner and vendor/supplier communities and the event aims to discuss the issues and the…
Counterparty Link Raises the Bar For Counterparty, Entity Data
The launch a few weeks ago of a new company and eponymous data product, CounterpartyLink, signifies the growing demand for counterparty and legal entity data, fuelled by increasingly stringent regulatory requirements. To date, the main source of legal entity data has been Dun & Bradstreet’s Duns numbers, and more recently the joint Crosswalk initiative it…
Battle of the Reference Data Industry Groups? Atkin Launches Findac, As FISD Gears Up
Competition looks set to hit the reference data industry bodies space, as former FISD chief Mike Atkin has found a backer to set up his own industry group – Financial Data Coalition (Findac) – which appears to be in direct competition with his former employer. Findac, which has the tagline: “Promoting standards and efficiencies in…
Volante White Paper Promotes Federated Approach to Data
Volante Technologies chief technology officer Krishna Sudarshan espouses a federated approach to reference data in a recently issued what paper, Reference Data – an Insight into This Thorny Problem. Sudarshan promotes the idea of using Volante’s Message Metadata Repository and other technologies to build and maintain central metadata rules without the need for a single…
Bank of New York Picks ValueLink Giving Boost to Outsourcing
Giving a vote of confidence to the outsourcing discussion, Bank of New York (BNY) has opted for Value-Link’s pricing validation service over sourcing data feeds directly from the information vendors, after a year-long RFP process. BNY’s Central Pricing Unit will be sourcing a range of daily intraday and closing valuation pricing data with global coverage…
The Need for Governance in Data Centralization Projects Selected extracts of a white paper by Steve French, Azimuth Financial
Many organizations have attempted to create centralized data groups (CDGs) responsible for sourcing, maintaining and distributing core data to all departments. There are clear reasons for doing this: efficiency, consistency, data quality, risk and regulatory compliance. However, despite all of these drivers, very few organizations have created CDGs. Of the top 20 investment banks (as…
Competition is good, right?
We all know that competition is good, right? But can competition be good when you’re talking about industry organizations, supposed to be there to facilitate cooperation among commercially driven, competitive business entities? What happens when the industry associations suddenly become competitive themselves? Will it impede progress or will it provide further impetus to progress the…
Kirby Moves On to Growing Accenture Data Management Business
Reference data advocate Anthony Kirby has started work for Accenture, based in London. At the expanding data management services group within Accenture, Kirby has been named U.K. regional sales director and associate partner within its capital markets practice. He will report to U.K. partner Chris Broyden, and to lead partner for data management services Patricia…
Standard & Poor’s Launches U.S. Fixed Income Reference Data Service
Standard & Poor’s has introduced a new Securities DataManager, which will provide municipal and corporate fixed income descriptive data with continuous intraday updates. The new service complies with the municipal industry’s Real Time Trade Match (RTTM) efforts to mandate the submission of municipal trades within 15 minutes of execution and to indicate the timing of…