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Data Vendor Selection is Key to Bringing Down Costs But Also Improving Quality, Says SGSS’s Rose
In the current cost conscious environment, financial institutions need to push back on their vendors and make sure they have conducted a thorough evaluation of the data they are receiving from them, says Olivier Rose, head of projects and international market data management at French bank Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS). Rose, who has been…
RBC has Calendars, Entity Data, Client Onboarding and Issue to Issuer Data Linkages on Agenda, Says Sutton
Following her appointment as Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC) new global head of reference data at the end of last year, Julia Sutton has been busy with plans to automate key areas of the bank’s customer data management. Sutton explains that she has been afforded a valuable window of opportunity within RBC to drive forward…
DTCC Warehouse Finally Recognised by Fed as Data Repository for OTC Instruments
It may have taken a solid year of campaigning but the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has finally been granted approval by the Fed to set up a subsidiary to operate its Trade Information Warehouse as a data repository for OTC credit derivatives. The new subsidiary, which has been dubbed the Warehouse Trust Company,…
SCV Reforms will Require Lots of New Counterparty Data Linkages and 25 New Data Fields, Says JWG’s Di Giammarino
The UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) incoming Single Customer View (SCV) reforms, which are part of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), will require financial institutions to introduce a raft of new data linkages in order to consolidate customer data into the required reporting format, said PJ Di Giammarino, CEO of JWG at last night’s…
EDI Tracked Over 5 Million Corporate Actions in 2009
Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of corporate actions and reference data, announced today that its corporate actions data team had created over 5 million corporate actions records in 2009 which is an astonishing volume of 20,800 records a day. EDI has been providing global corporate actions on equities through its Worldwide Corporate Actions for…
Thomson Reuters to Offer Securities Class Action Claims Filing Solution through PORTIA
Thomson Reuters today announced that it will offer securities class action claims filing capabilities as part of its enterprise-wide investment accounting system. The solution will be delivered in collaboration with Global Claims Filing Limited (GCF), a provider of securities class action data, research and claims filing services. Thomson Reuters PORTIA provides comprehensive investment accounting management…
LSE’s Husler Discusses Motivation Behind FactSet Partnership for UnaVista
Earlier this week, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) announced that it has commenced a joint venture with data vendor FactSet Research Systems to add its entity data to the UnaVista platform. Mark Husler, head of information services business development at the LSE, explains the details of the deal to Reference Data Review. Under the partnership agreement,…
Accuity Enhances SSI Presentment in the Global Banking Resource
Accuity, a provider of payment routing data, AML screening software and services is pleased to introduce new enhancements that have been made to its industry leading online payment look up tool, the Global Banking Resource (TGBR). The Correspondents page on TGBR has been reconfigured to allow users to more easily associate correspondents with specific beneficiary…
UK FSA Pledges Commitment to Support Vendor Community in Data Space
There may be troubles ahead for the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) with the impending departure of current CEO Hector Sants in the summer, but, in the meantime, the regulator has pledged to support the data vendor community in adapting to the new regulatory order. To this end, the regulator is strengthening its efforts around…
SuperDerivatives Boosts Global Strategic Sales Group
SuperDerivatives (SD), the derivatives benchmark, has strengthened its global strategic sales team with the appointment of financial systems and derivatives expert David Collins. Collins joins SD as European head of strategic sales, reporting to Zohar Hod, vice president of strategic sales and business development, and will draw on his extensive expertise in the implementation of…