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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.
Datawatch Releases New Versions Of Monarch Data Analysis Tool
Datawatch Europe has announced the release of version 8 of its Monarch data analysis tool, which allows users to extract, analyze and export data from any electronic report without the need for programming. The standard edition supports export from reports; the professional edition uses reports, spreadsheets, databases, ODBC data sources, HTML files and PDF files…
Tenfore Offers Historical Tick Data for Equities, Derivatives and FX
U.K.-based data feed provider Tenfore Systems has unveiled a new historical tick data service, provides intraday pricing for equities, derivatives and foreign exchange going back to the beginning of December 2003. Tenfore says the data is free of any judgemental cleansing and so closely represents the original source. Tenfore has sourced and stored data from…
Vanguard Group Opts for BMC For Data Management
Mutual fund company Vanguard Group has implemented an enterprise data management platform using BMC Software’s Log Master for DB2. The platform streamlines the firm’s complex data environment into a single repository. The data relates to shareholder accounts, and was previously stored in multiple database, files, tapes and platforms. Vanguard has around $800 billion under management…
U.K. Broker Williams de Broe to Use Mondas for Corporate Actions
Williams de Broe will use Mondas’ Radica CAPS corporate actions automation platform and its Election Management Portal under a five-year licensing, services and support deal valued at around £350,000. The U.K. stock broker’s decision followed a lengthy evaluations process involving several vendors. The deal makes Williams de Broe the second client to adopt the new…
Watch out for MiFID, the industry’s greatest challenge since Y2K By Gary Wright, managing director, CityCompass Research
In case you are not aware, the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, or MiFID, has been under discussion and review for a number of years. It is not an understatement to say that MiFID will entail fundamental change to all securities markets within the European Union. The changes in both business practice and the…
Standard & Poor’s Signs Reciprocal Accord With CIBC World Markets for Bond Data
McGraw-Hill’s Standard & Poor’s Corp. has tapped CIBC World Markets as the source for bond evaluations in Canada. As part of the reciprocal arrangement, CIBC will add Standard & Poor’s bond evaluations to its own PriceBase market data platform. Standard & Poor’s says the move is in response to growing demand for comprehensive cross-border bond…
Reuters Taps Barnes for Enterprise Information Marketing Role
Reuters has named Ken Barnes marketing director, Americas, for enterprise information products. Based in New York, Barnes will manage campaigns for the DataScope and real-time data feed products. Barnes previously led research and development initiatives with Reuters’ Innovation Program, and managed the Reuters strategic technology alliances. Before that, he managed data feed marketing for Bridge…