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LakeFront Data Ventures and ReferenceDataFactory merge to form LakeFrontData
Data management consultancy LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV) and data integration vendor ReferenceDataFactory (RDF) have merged to form EDM specialist firm LakeFrontData. LDV founder and former SunGard EDM man Dale Richards has become president and CEO of the new company and fellow colleagues and ex-SunGard veterans Marc Odho and Rob Ord have been appointed head of…
Telekurs Financial Implements IBEI Codes
Broadening the adoption of a standard identifier for business entities, Telekurs Financial has implemented the International Business Entity Identifier (IBEI) codes for its Valordata Feed (VDF) and its financial display Telekurs iD. The vendor has been working on this implementation since June 2007 in order to allow European customers to identify participants in the processing…
SEC’s Cox to provide guidelines for adoption of XBRL
Christopher Cox, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman, is expected to release recommendations this week about how US companies can adopt extensible business reporting language (XBRL) for their financial reporting. This follows the SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting’s report, released in February, which recommended that companies should use XBRL to tag…
Interactive Data Launches Class Actions Service in ISO 15022 Format
Interactive Data has launched its class actions service mapped to the ISO 15022 format as an optional module of FTS, Interactive Data’s securities administration tool. The service is part of the vendor’s Pricing and Reference Data business and is designed to help institutions track, monitor and recover funds resulting from securities class action litigation The…
Q&A: RTI on The Value of a Millisecond, and How Jitter Fits In
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) recently held a seminar ‘Straight Talk About Low-Latency, The Value of a Millisecond’ which highlighted the relationship between the technical minutiae of low latency systems and the business issues related to electronic trading. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with John Akbari, Director of Financial Market Business Development at RTI, to find out some more…
Moody’s Investors Service Names Michel Madelain As COO, Brian Clarkson to Retire After 17 Years at Company
Moody’s Investors Service, the credit rating agency unit of Moody’s Corporation, has appointed Michel Madelain, currently executive vice president in charge of the Global Fundamental Ratings business, as chief operating officer with overall responsibility for managing the day-to-day operations of the ratings business. Brian Clarkson, who most recently served as president and COO of Moody’s…
Markit Launches Counterparty and Compliance Documentation Library
Data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing vendor Markit has launched a new documentation library that allows financial institutions to post, manage and share compliance, counterparty credit and regulatory documents securely. Called Markit Document Exchange, the new service automates KYC, anti-money laundering and compliance certification processes in order to reduce risk and lower operational…
GoldenSource Reports Strong Q1 EDM Sales, Announces New Strategic Hires and Moves into New London Facility
GoldenSource, a provider of enterprise data management (EDM) solutions, has reported strong sales of its solutions in London, Brussels, New York and Toronto during the first quarter of 2008. Across all of its market segments, the company reported five new contract wins with an expanding customer base and one significant upgrade with an existing client….
Deutsche Börse to Distribute Interactive Data’s Bond Evaluations
Interactive Data has widened the distribution of its bond evaluations through a deal with Deutsche Börse, which will be making the data available to financial institutions in Germany. Through the use of Interactive Data’s Pricing and Reference Data bond evaluations, Deutsche Börse’s clients will now be able to request evaluations for specific securities in their…
XSP Achieves Gold Status in Microsoft Partner Program
XSP has achieved gold certified partner status, the highest level of competence, in Microsoft’s Partner Program. The corporate actions vendor became a Microsoft certified partner at the end of September last year and has now progressed to gold status. The vendor achieved Microsoft gold certified partner status as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), attaining the…