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FISD Relishes Role in WG11 to Develop Financial Data Model
Delegates at the FISD’s general meeting in Paris late last month heard about the industry group’s significant involvement in International Standards Organization’s Working Group 11, which released a draft consultation paper in early March as the previous edition of Reference Data Review was going to press. Working Group 11 (WG11) of Steering Committee 4 (SC4)…
Tata Consultancy to Join Corporate Actions Benchmarking Event
India’s Tata Consultancy Services will join a selection of corporate actions vendors at a London benchmarking event in June organized by City Compass. The event – pitched as an opportunity to benchmark vendor offerings versus user needs – is scheduled for June 30 at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall, in the City. Other participating vendors include…
Martin Currie to Use ValueLink Pricing Service
Fund manager Martin Currie Investment Management, based in Edinburgh, has signed up to use daily pricing from ValueLink Information Services. The ValueLink data will be used to provide clients with price information while at the same time optimizing the firm’s own pricing operations. Martin Currie cited ValueLink’s stringent validation procedures as a factor in its…
Brewin Consulting, Infoshare Develop Single Client View
Brewin Consulting has teamed up with Infoshare to develop and market Single Client View, a data quality solution aimed at providing a single view across all client and reference data within the financial institution. The solution features a set of rules and meta data used to create a consistent view of data, yielding benefits in…
ISO Rebukes ANNA Over Cusip Pricing Policy
The International Standards Organization has issued a letter of rebuke to the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA), suggesting that fees being charged by the Cusip Service Bureau for its numbering database may be out of step with ISO policy. Cusip is operated by Standard & Poor’s under license from the American Bankers Association. Cusip…
Bloor Names Coexis Data Manager First Generic Product
Independent research house Bloor Research has pronounced Syn~ReferenceData the first generic reference data software product. Syn~ReferenceData, developed by Coexis, offers a process-oriented and rules-based approach for describing and modeling how a business works, defining the rules that describe operations, and setting up role-based personalization to provide local access to data. With Syn~ReferenceData, a golden copy…
Tick Data Offers Cleansed TAQ Historical Data Service
Tick Data Inc. has launched Tick Equity Database, a cleansed version of the New York Stock Exchange’s Trade and Quote (TAQ) database of raw historical intraday data for all equities on major and regional U.S. exchanges. The Tick Equity Database, with clean trade and quote data from January 1, 1993, to present, was developed for…
Swift Renames Second Edition of ISO 15022 Standard
To avoid confusion, Swift plans to rename its planned second edition of the ISO 15022 messaging standard, which is used in many corporate actions and other financial applications. The new edition – which will be offered alongside the original – will be called UNIFI (for Universal Financial Industry messaging scheme) and will be designated a…
FTI Launches StreetConsolidator to Centralize Reference Data Management
Financial Technologies International (FTI) has launched StreetConsolidator, a data management platform that offers a centralized view of an institution’s reference data and market information, including proprietary data. The system combines FTI’s existing reference data and financial data management solutions. It allows users to centralize and consolidate data across business units. The aim is to offer…
Invesco Marks First Global Deployment For XSP
Invesco’s implementation of XcitekSolutionsPlus’s corporate actions automation platform, announced last month, was strategically important for the vendor and may be a pointer of the future direction of its global ambitions. Invesco will use the XSP platform currently deployed by its U.S. parent, Amvescap, to service its European and Asian operations, marking the first time an…