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A Night At The OPRA Maybe Ain’t So Bad
Please excuse the headline … I wanted to be cute and grab some attention. When it comes to market data rates, OPRA – the Options Price Reporting Authority – makes the headlines that low latency vendors (and industry analysts) love to cite – because the numbers are so frighteningly big. The reality, though, is a…
Datanomic Unveils New Version of Data Quality, Integration Platform
Data quality specialist Datanomic has released dn:Director 6.2, the latest version of its data quality and data integration platform. dn:Director 6.2 delivers automated web service generation for deployment of real-time transactional data quality services in a service-oriented architecture, the vendor claims. dn:Director offers an interactive learning environment for organisations to profile, audit, cleanse, parse, match…
CRIS Consortium to Provide Platform for Independent Valuation, Risk Management of Credit Derivatives
A consortium comprising Zeliade Systems, OTC-Conseil, JPLC, Dexia CL, Evry University and Microsoft France and dubbed CRIS (Credit Risk Services) plans to develop a platform for independent valuation and risk management of credit derivatives. The consortium will have its first test client in the second part of the year and there will be ongoing developments…
XSP Names BNY Mellon’s Anthony Scanga Business Analyst, Operations Group
XSP, provider of corporate actions software, has appointed Anthony Scanga as a business analyst within the operations group. Scanga, previously a corporate actions manager at The Bank of New York Mellon, will be responsible for client operations support, professional services engagements and global implementations, while working with the pre-sales and sales teams to support the…
LakeFront Adds Ian Mathers as Associate Partner
LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV) says Ian Mathers has joined the LDV Data Management Partner Program as a LakeFront associate partner. He will be concentrating his efforts on project management and implementation and process engineering and improvement. Mathers was most recently with Royal Bank of Canada and prior to that, he led the Project Management Improvement…
Asset Control Appoints John Mitchell for US Sales
Asset Control has appointed John Mitchell as North American sales director based in New York. Mitchell will be responsible for generating new business and expanding Asset Control’s regional presence. Previously, Mitchell was vice president of sales at Fortent, provider of risk and compliance solutions, and before that he was vice president of global sales and…
Mike Powell to Head Reuters Enterprise Information
As more details emerge of key roles post the Thomson/Reuters merger, it has been decided that Mike Powell will head up Enterprise Information, the position previously occupied by Kevin Bradshaw who departed last year.
FISD Releases MDDL Open Source Licence in Further Bid to Encourage Take-Up
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software and Information Industry Association has released a new MDDL 3.0 Open Source licence for the financial information industry. MDDL, or Market Data Definition Language, is an open industry standard XML dialect for securities market data. The announcement of the new licence aims to remove possible ambiguity…
EastNets Enters into Distributor Agreement with CounterpartyLink to Carry Counterparty, Entity Data
Dubai-headquartered EastNets has signed a distributor agreement with CounterpartyLink (CPL) under which EastNets will make CPL’s legal entity reference data available via its portal or for direct distribution to its clients. EastNets privides payment and security solutions for the financial, corporate and government sectors in EMEA. EastNets has been supporting the entry of counterparty data…
Entity Data, EDM Vendors Ally, as Golden Copy Logic Finds its Place in the Counterparty Data World
Two alliances this month between providers of counterparty data and suppliers of data management systems indicate that counterparty data’s role in the bigger enterprise data management (EDM) picture continues to mature and more closely resemble that of security master data. As Reference Data Review went to press, Standard & Poor’s and Siperian (which already has…