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IPUG Ramps up Lobbying Activities, Targets Bloomberg as First on a Long List of Vendors Under the Spotlight
The Information Providers User Group’s (IPUG) last annual general meeting saw the confirmation of the main deliverables for the group over the next year, including the highlighting of a number of vendor solutions to come under the group’s scrutiny. One of IPUG’s key activities of late has been the lobbying of the vendor community and…
Central Bank of Oman Selects FRSGlobal to Implement its Banking Oversight and Research Solutions Project
FRSGlobal today announced that the Central Bank of Oman (CBO) has selected FRSGlobal to implement the new Banking Oversight and Research Solutions (BORS) project, in order to streamline and automate supervision and analysis of authorised financial institutions in the Sultanate. Hamood Sangour Al Zadjali, executive president of the CBO, stated that: “The 21st century will…
Issuer Community to Remain a Sticking Point for XBRL in Corporate Actions, Says SmartStream’s Middendorp
The issuer community is likely to remain a sticking point for the Swift, XBRL US and Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) initiative to introduce XBRL data tagging to issuer documents for the foreseeable future, according to Kees Middendorp, senior consultant for corporate actions at solution vendor SmartStream Technologies. Although the introduction of XBRL to…
GFI Group Announces Release of FENICS Exotics
GFI Group has announced the release of FENICS Exotics, a powerful collection of models used to price all major exotic FX instruments. FENICS Exotics pricing models are carefully tailored to work the way a market practitioner would expect to use them in the FX markets. The component provides accurate prices and tradable bid/ask spreads that…
EDM Council Readies Industry Benchmarking Survey, Continues Semantics Repository Development
The EDM Council has been working in partnership with IT consultancy firm Headstrong to put together a global data management benchmarking survey, aimed at providing comparable metrics on the data management projects going on across the industry. The survey involved 65 firms and will be discussed at an upcoming launch event in New York in…
SEC Issues Report Cautioning Credit Rating Agencies
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today issued a report cautioning credit rating agencies about deceptive ratings conduct and the importance of sufficient internal controls over the policies, procedures, and methodologies the firms use to determine credit ratings. The SEC’s Report of Investigation stems from an Enforcement Division inquiry into whether Moody’s Investors Service, Inc…
The OFR Beauty Pageant
Earlier this month I noted the political machinations taking place up on Capitol Hill, as various candidates jostle for the position of head of the Office of Financial Research, which is charged under the Dodd-Frank Act with collecting and storing financial services data for the monitoring of systemic risk. There are a number of candidates…
Netik Promotes Lott to Head of Product Management
Netik, a global provider of financial data management and reporting services and products, announced today the promotion of Brian Lott to the role of head of product management. He will sit on Netik’s executive management team reporting directly to Rob Flatley, CEO and president of Netik. Lott will assume responsibility for all strategic product direction…
Information Mosaic’s Bermingham on Swift’s 2015 Strategy, Standards and a Utility Future
Reference Data Review catches up with Gerard Bermingham, vice president of business strategy for the Americas at vendor Information Mosaic, about his views on Swift’s new 2015 strategy and how the industry network operator should figure in the standards development process and the reference data industry of the future. How well do you think the goals…
Scaling New Market Data Peaks
It’s becoming quite a frequent event – that being the press release from marketdatapeaks.com about a new record high as measured using the Exegy ticker plant appliance that powers it. Today, the release said the record had been pushed up to 3,732,957 messages per second at 9.54am. The previous peak was 3,449,856 mps, which was…