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LSE Collaborates with FOW TRADEdata to Automate, Expand Allocation of Sedols for Futures and Options
The London Stock Exchange has entered into a strategic collaboration with FOW TRADEdata, aggregator and distributor of reference data for exchange traded derivatives, with the aim of bringing Sedol instrument codes fully into the futures and options market. As a result of the relationship, Sedol codes, in addition to other identification codes used within the…
OpenLink Adds Markit, Bloomberg Interfaces in New Release of Findur
OpenLink, a provider of cross-asset trading, risk management and operations processing software solutions, has released Version 8.1 of its Findur credit derivatives trading platform. Among other enhancements, the new version offers an interface to derivatives data services from Markit Group as well as access to instrument data from Bloomberg. The Findur platform performs a broad…
Northern Trust to Provide Data Management To Vontobel under Outsourcing Arrangement
Northern Trust has successfully migrated the non-portfolio management related investment operations – including data management – of Vontobel Asset Management, the New York-based investment management subsidiary of Switzerland’s Vontobel Holding, to Northern Trust’s investment operations outsourcing platform. As well as handling the investment manager’s data management operations, Northern Trust will provide post-trade execution support, trade…
Corero Wins New Deal For Radica CAPS Corporate Actions System
Corero, the former Mondas, has received a number of orders totalling more than £270,000 from an undisclosed major investment bank. They include a licence for a module of Radica CAPS, which forms part of a delayed previously announced order, as well as associated professional services and maintenance over the next four years. It will be…
Barclays Global Investors, BBH Exchange FpML Messages over Swiftnet
Barclays Global Investors and Brown Brothers Harriman have become the first asset manager and custodian to exchange FpML (Financial products Markup Language) based contract notifications over Swiftnet. Soon after, State Street, on behalf of PIMCO and other buy-side customers, began testing FpML communication with Bank of New York, Mellon Bank, Northern Trust and State Street…
Rimes Technologies Adds Russell Global Indexes As a Data Partner
Rimes Technologies, an integrator of financial information services, has added Russell Global Indexes to its portfolio of data partners. This family of global stock indexes, comprising of more than 10,000 securities divided into a family of indexes which cover 22 regions and 63 countries, is now available through Rimes’ integration platform, offering a set of…
Bloomberg Adds Pricing, Risk Data from NumeriX
Bloomberg has made NumeriX’s pricing and risk analytics available to users of its Bloomberg Professional service, via a select set of Bloomberg Professional calculators. In collaboration with Bloomberg, NumeriX has developed a fully integrated and enhanced version of NumeriX 6, its flagship pricing and structuring application, dubbed the NumeriX Bloomberg Edition. The Bloomberg version features…
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…