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Quantifi Achieves Markit Alliance Partner Certification
Quantifi has received Certified Alliance Partner status under Markit’s certification programme. The Markit Alliance certification program was launched earlier on this year to ensure the technical integration of Markit’s data services by third party vendors. Quantifi received this certification after demonstrating that its integration of CDS, CDS Indices, RED (Reference Entity Database) and Tranche data…
Reuters DataScope Select Adds Complinet Screening Capability
Complinet has signed a global contract with Reuters that will allow Reuters DataScope Select users to screen selected entities against international sanctions lists, watch lists and other information that can help them comply with counterparty and Know Your Customer regulations. The deal follows the recent tie-in between the two companies that established Complinet as Reuters’…
The Chief Data Officer: Here to Stay or Just a Flash in the Pan?
Remember when the acronym CDO referred to collateralized debt obligations, a fancy type of credit derivative? Well, think again. CDOs are now chief data officers, C-level executives charged with the corporate ‘ownership’ of a firm’s data assets (although quite where that leaves chief information officers isn’t yet clear….). The implication is that CDOs sit with…
Telekurs’ Fininfo Buy May Signal Strategy for Non-Organic Growth
Telekurs’ agreement this month to acquire its former redistributor in France, Fininfo SA, may signal a new willingness on the part of the big Swiss reference and market data vendor to explore avenues for non-organic growth after decades of shunning acquisitive ventures. The €217.7 Million purchase seems to be a good fit, with Fininfo more…
Swift Picks Avox for BIC1 Cleanup; First Step in Broader BIC/CIVIC Plan
Swift has signed a deal with Deutsche Boerse-owned counterparty data specialist Avox to help it with the process of cleansing its BIC1 code database of so-called ‘unconnected BICs’. The agreement appears to mark the first step in a broad Swift initiative to extend the coverage of its BIC directory and creating BIC-like codes to identify…
CDO Software Integrates CMA DataVision Feed
CDO Software, provider of tools for users of structured credit products, has integrated the CMA DataVision same day credit default swap (CDS) pricing data into its CDO Tools suite. Sunay Shah, CEO and founder of CDO Software says in today’s market most firms want as much transparency as possible, and that requires taking numerous different…
Final Thoughts on Sifma, Past and Present
The first SIA (now Sifma) show I attended was in 1986. In some ways, it was quite different to the event last week, while in other ways it was pretty much the same. Entering the main show floor in 1986, one would be confronted by the big Quotron booth, with sales head George Levine in…
Sifma Rocked!
I’m referring to last week’s Sifma Technology Management Conference and Exhibit in NYC. True, the new name (the result of the SIA’s merger with the Bond Association) was a bit of a put off – many people suggested that Sifma sounded like some horrible strain of bird flu – but otherwise it’s been the best…
Life In The Fast Lane
I’m writing this posting from Montreal, Canada, where I just watched a thrilling Formula 1 grand prix, won by British rookie Lewis Hamilton. An amazing achievement in only his sixth F1 race. So what has F1 got to do with low latency? Well, for one, F1 laps are timed down to the millisecond, just as…
Perplexed By Percentages
A couple of weeks ago, together with Reuters, we conducted a survey of the marketplace to find out how well latency measurement is entrenched, and what users thought of datafeed providers and measurement tool vendors. And we asked them to comment on their current market data handling infrastructures too. One figure that came back –…