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Sophis Enters Data Management With Data for Risque and Value
Sophis is entering the data management arena with Data Service, a new module to support its existing Risque and Value portfolio and risk management products. The new combined solution is set to go live with a large hedge fund client in London, and Sophis has also signed up clients in New York and Germany. Sophis…
Markit Expands Reach of Credit Derivatives Data
Markit, with the weight of its 13 bank sponsors behind it, has been expanding rapidly – both its coverage of the credit markets driven by acquisitions, and its distribution through deals with data vendors and software providers. Its RED product – reference entity database – has recently been made available via risk management software provider…
Standards: Are They Worth the Effort?
Much of the industry talk about reference data focuses on standards, and much work has been done to develop and propagate them. But is this work worth the effort? If the industry does not adopt the standards, they are, obviously, of no use. ISO 15022 for corporate actions is a current example of a standard…
Progress Made, But More Needed For Difficult, Dull, Deadly CAs
Difficult, dull and deadly – that was how corporate actions were described at a breakfast seminar held by CityCompass earlier this month. Of course, we don’t necessarily agree with the full statement, but difficult they certainly can be. Progress is being made, however, towards the automation of corporate actions processing, reported participants of the event….
FISD Seeks Feedback for MDDL with New Working Group
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) is seeking feedback on the data model behind the Market Data Definition Language (MDDL) as it is “moving into implementations by many of our members,” says the FISD. It has set up a Securities Model Working Group under its Securities Processing Automation efforts to address MDDL and related data…
London Exchange Engages Firms In Counterparty Data Utility Pilot
The market for counterparty data solutions is heating up, as the London Stock Exchange becomes latest in a slew of firms becoming active in the space. The Exchange is working with six participating financial institutions for an upcoming pilot of a counterparty data utility. Says the exchange’s head of reference data, Mark Husler, “We are…
Telekurs’ Pricing Deal with Exchange Systems Technology
Telekurs (U.K.) is making its delayed prices on equities, bonds and deriva-tives available via Exchange Systems Technology, an IT service provider for clearing and settlement operations. The deal will provide EST’s clients with intra-day valuations in their back office environment, including for valuing collateral holdings for risk management. The data will be made available to…
EUSD: Are You Ready? By Gary Wright, MSI, Managing Director, CityCompass Research
For those not quite up to speed, EUSD stands for the European Union Savings Directive and it impacts just about all financial services firms who act as collecting or paying agents in capital markets within the European Union. These paying agents – including banks, building societies, corporations issuing bonds that pay interest on certain instruments…
IDC’s Revenues Grow, Supported by New Evaluated, Descriptive Services
Interactive Data Corp. (IDC) saw annual revenues grow 9.5% to $484.6 million for 2004, with net income rising 11.2% to $80.3 million. For the fourth quarter, revenue grew 4% to $125.2 million, while net income grew 15.7% to $21.1 million. Growth was attributed in part to “continued strength … in FT Interactive Data’s North American…
GoldenSource Hires Zill From CheckFree
GoldenSource – formerly known as Financial Technologies Inc (FTI) – has hired Mark Zill as executive vice president, with responsibilities including leadership and development of software operations for product management and development, customer care and international operations. Zill, based in New York. was previously with CheckFree Financial and Compliance Solutions through its acquisition of HelioGraph…