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Does the World of Valuations Need Common Data Formats?
The need for data standardisation is well understood in many areas of reference data (albeit poorly implemented or non-existent in actuality – concept rather than reality being the operative word), but the world of valuations data has largely remained untouched by standardisation initiatives to harmonise vendor formats. Guy Sears, director of Wholesale at the Investment…
SmartStream Planning to Add Entity, Corporate Actions and Settlement Instruction Data to DClear in the Future
There may be some debate about SmartStream’s future ownership at the moment, but the vendor is not about to let that hold back the development plans for its reference data utility solution DClear, according to David Penney, executive vice president of strategy and product development at the vendor. SmartStream is currently working on adding more…
PolarLake Announce World’s First Semantic Web-based Reference Data Management Platform
PolarLake has announced the availability of the world’s first reference data management platform based on semantic web technologies. The platform enables the acquisition, management and distribution of vendor and internally sourced reference data. Already being used by a number of tier 1 financial services firms, the platform enables, data loading 11x faster, queries 17x faster…
Avox and GoldTier Partner on Enhanced ‘Know Your Customer’ System
Avox, a supplier of legal entity data on financial entities globally, announced today that it has partnered with GoldTier, a compliance software provider, to create an enhanced system to help the financial industry comply with increasingly strict regulatory “Know Your Customer” (KYC) requirements. GoldTier is a leading provider to financial firms of software for onboarding…
Paladyne Releases Latest Version of its Reference Data Management Suite
Paladyne Systems, a provider of next generation investment management solutions, today announced the release of Paladyne Security Master 7.0 and Paladyne Price Master 7.0, the major components of Paladyne’s reference data management suite. This release introduces many new product features and extends many areas of existing functionality. Today, Paladyne’s reference data management products are used…
CUSIP Global Services Makes its CABRE Business Entity Database Freely Available to CUSIP Customers
CUSIP Global Services (CGS) today announced plans to make its CABRE business entity identifier database freely available to CUSIP customers, effective 1 December. The new standard code, known as a CABRE (CUSIP Avox Business Reference Entity identifier), was created through a strategic partnership between CGS and Avox Limited, a DTCC company. The CABRE database is…
Thomson Reuters Poaches Credit Suisse’s Hinds as its New Global Head of EDM to Lend User Cred to its Enterprise Ambitions
In line with its recent spate of hiring and reshuffles as it continues to integrate its business units, data giant Thomson Reuters has hired ex-programme manager for reference data at Credit Suisse Sally Hinds as its new global head of enterprise data management (EDM). It has been a year of change for Hinds, who was…
Cadis’ Simpson Elaborates on Recent Wins and Partnership Plans
EDM vendor Cadis has bagged 14 clients so far this year and is potentially set to sign three or four more before 2010 is out, according to CEO Daniel Simpson. The vendor, which has been touting its new Solvency II focused solution since its launch at Sibos last month, has also recently signed a deal…
What’s in a Name?
If there was one topic that dominated this week’s FIMA conference in London, it was the subject of legal entity identification. In line with the developments in the US around setting data standards at a regulatory level via the Office of Financial Research, Ken Price, CEO of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation’s Avox business,…
Panopticon Partners with GoldenSource to Extend Scope of Data Visualization for the Securities and Investment Management Industry
Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and time series data, today announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with GoldenSource, a data management provider for the securities and investment management industry, to provide a user-friendly reporting and data visualization layer to its data management systems. GoldenSource will…