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FT Interactive Data has spent much of the recent past consolidating its datasets to address the needs of its customers internationally. Reference Data Review spoke to Tom Aubrey, European markets director, about the company’s view of the market. “If you explain to people outside the securities industry that in effect the industry can’t agree on…

Reference Data User Groups Move Closer as Regulators Tighten Controls

The European Reference Data Users Group is moving to forge closer alliances with its counterparts in the US, including the Reference Data Coalition (Redac), as financial industry regulators impose tighter global controls. Reuters’ Anthony Kirby, chairman of RDUG, told a conference at the recent FinExpo event that financial services firms need to examine reference data…

Banc of America Plans Expansion of Internal Reference Database

Banc of America Securities is planning to expand an internal reference database that it developed with Financial Technologies International with the addition of further instruments and functionality. Alan Rosenthal vice president of IT business architecture at BoA told the recent FinExpo conference in London that the bank has been able to realise $16,000 a month…

JP Morgan Investor Services Votes For Crest

JPMorgan Investor Services is to use the recently launched Crest service for electronic voting. It provides an end-to-end electronic process for all corporate actions, including meeting notification and vote instructions from the issuer’s agent to the institutional investor. JPMorgan is using the service as part of its efforts to help clients meet the increasing corporate…