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FT Interactive Data Launches eDOL
FT Interactive Data went live last month with eDOL, the electronic version of the London Stock Exchange’s Daily Official List. The new service is now available for download via the Internet in .PDF format. The Daily Official List is the legal record of daily trading activity on the London Stock Exchange.
Exchange Data International Partners with Market Data Integrators in U.S.
U.K. data vendor Exchange Data International (EDI) has entered into a marketing alliance with Chicago-based Market Data Integrators (MDI). Under the deal, MDI will market EDI’s data services in the U.S., outside of the Northeast. Kurt Klein, MDI president, says the company plans to expand EDI’s reach particularly among buy-side users and expects to field…
TIAA-CREF Taps Fame for Enterprise Data Mangement
Buy-side giant Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) has chosen Fame Information Services’ ReferencePoint as the basis for a new enterprise data management platform to support its risk operation. ReferencePoint will be used to manage the flow of both real-time and historical data into its risk applications.
Checkfree Acquires Heliograph, Boosting Corporate Actions Capability
Checkfree Corp., a financial data management company based in Atlanta, has acquired Heliograph, a London-based financial messaging and corporate actions processing company. Checkfree will pay $18.3 million for all Heliograph shares outstanding. Heliograph, which has annual revenues of around $8 million, will be merged into Checkfree’s Financial and Compliance Solutions (CFCS) unit, part of its…
Reuters Renews Deal with S&P Securities Evaluations
Reuters has extended its long-standing deal with Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations. S&P will continue to redistribute 1.9 million Reuters/EJV taxable fixed income valuations, alongside fixed income evaluations and global pricing from other sources, including third-party services. According to Todd McGhee, of Reuters enterprise information products group, the S&P relationship predates Reuters’ ownership of EJV,…
Framlington Deploys Heliograph
Framlington, a U.K. investment management firm, has deployed the TradeFlow post-trade transactions management system from Heliograph, developer of the Evare corporate actions processing platform. The system will be used to replace a manual process for handling transaction information.
Mark-it Signs Up 16 Institutions For Project Red
Mark-it Partners has signed up an initial 16 financial institutions to its reference entity database service, known as Project Red, which draws on alphanumeric codes created by Standard & Poor’s Cusip Bureau Service (Reference Data Review, September 2003). The database was founded earlier this year by three institutions – Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and J.P….
Tempo Rises in Global Identifier Standards Race
Readers of Reference Data Review have known for some time that things have been heating up in the securities identifier space. We all knew that London Stock Exchange’s foray into global identifiers from domestic U.K. ones would raise a few shackles. Our own Angela Wilbraham, on Eagle Software’s European road show last month highlighted the…
ANNA Service Bureau to Plug Gaps in ISINs in Bid to Thwart London Stock Exchange
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) has confirmed agreement of plans to supplement the ISIN securities identifier data to address the recognized problem of the lack of market-level identification in the ISIN. The move appears to be in response to the London Stock Exchange’s recent initiative to establish its own SEDOL numbering system as…
Tullett Liberty Underpins Trade Notification with Robust Approach to Reference Data
Last summer’s release of Tullett Liberty’s Post:marker service heralded the interdealer broker’s first commercial foray into straight-through-processing. But as chief information officer Geoff Chapman explains, the firm has underpinned the offering with counterparty and security master databases it started work on more than five years ago. When interdealer-broker Tullett Liberty launched its Post:marker trade notifications…