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Interesting times ahead…
While I’m sure hard-core Reference Data Review readers would agree wholeheartedly with us that the world of enterprise data management is always an exciting place to be, it has to be said that recent weeks have been particularly exciting, with the flurry of corporate activity we’ve seen. The investment by Fidelity Ventures in Asset Control…
Swift Imposes Structure on MiFID Transaction Reporting Data
Swift is close to completing an ISO 20022 formatted transaction reporting message which it plans to pilot for three months on its network prior to launching a commercially available solution by the end of October in readiness for the November 1 Markets in Financial Services Directive (MiFID) implementation deadline. As an ISO standard, the message…
New Asset Control CEO Phil Lynch Plans to Build “Ecosystem” Around Data Management Suite
The combination of Asset Control and TAP Solutions creates a data management product line-up capable of meeting the requirements of financial institutions of all sizes globally, according to the new Asset Control CEO Phil Lynch. For larger institutions, the merged systems offer the prospect of an integrated solution for centralised data management supported by downstream…
Low Latency Crowd Braces For Hardware Acceleration
The era of software-based market data systems running on generic server and desktop hardware is now well through its second decade. The lifeblood of any large trading floor flows through the veins of its digital data distribution system. When the flow stops, all hell breaks loose. Our firm, TSAssociates, is in the business of preventing…
ICMA Issues Proposals to Publish Post-Trade Data Online
The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has issued proposals for consultation to launch two new pilot services that will see post-trade information and data on large liquid bond dealings published online. The new services would see all trades in large, liquid bonds published at the end of the business day. This would be made available…
Euroclear NIEC to Serve as New Dutch National Numbering Agent
Euroclear NIEC (Nederlands Interprofessioneel Effectencentrum NIEC) is to serve as the national numbering agent for newly issued securities in the Netherlands. The transfer of this service from Euronext Amsterdam will take place in accordance with the rules of the Association of National Numbering Agencies for role transfers. More than 70 per cent of newly created…
Saxo to Automate CA Processing With SmartStream TLM
Copenhagen-based Saxo Bank, provider of an online trading platform for foreign exchange, currency products and other securities, has purchased TLM Corporate Actions from SmartStream Technologies.
IDC Awarded Patent for Fair Value Pricing of Financial Assets
Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data business has been granted a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office for the fair value pricing of a financial asset. As Reference Data Review went to press, IDC also announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business has been selected by HedgeSpeed Technology – provider of…
At your service…
The world of reference data does not typically get associated with the newest and sexiest innovations in technology, more’s the pity. But there are signs that this is changing, with a growing number of players active in the service oriented architecture (SOA) space rounding on reference data distribution as a target area for implementation of…
EDI Avoids LSE Policy Change By Generating UK CA Data Itself
Data vendor Exchange Data International (EDI) is to compete head to head with the London Stock Exchange on UK corporate actions data, in a move it positions as being a direct response to recent data pricing and distribution policy changes by the LSE. EDI has been a vocal critic of the changes affecting LSE’s corporate…