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Spending on Legal Entity Data Management to Top $250m by 2010
By 2010, more than 10 per cent of total spending within the enterprise data management industry will be on legal entity data management, says analyst Aite Group in a new impact report. Regulatory pressure is driving a 200 per cent average annual growth rate in spending in this market, Aite says, encouraging spend on legal…
Reuters Migrates Legacy Platform Users on to DataScope Select
Reuters has begun migrating users of legacy products including Reuters DataScope Portfolio and Reuters Global Pricing Service on to Reuters DataScope Select, the web-based data delivery service it launched in January (Reference Data Review, January 2006). Reuters’ rationale for the move is to avoid retaining multiple platforms, and to enable its clients to take advantage…
Netik Eases InterView Implementation for Asset Managers with Off-The-Shelf Adapters
Bank of New York-owned Netik has carried out two implementations of a pre-packaged set of programs, metadata and pre-configured enquiries/reports organized into role-based “Explorers”, that sits on top of its InterView data warehouse and enables the system to be installed at investment management firms in around three months instead of the usual six to nine….
ABN Amro Negotiates Challenges Of Centralised Data Distribution
Long time Asset Control customer ABN Amro is pursuing an ambitious strategy to centralise reference data delivery across the whole of the group, including wholesale, retail and asset management. The strategy is underpinned by four data “pillars”: client and counterparty data, market data, instrument pricing and corporate actions and common reference data (currency and exchange…
CMA Enters Credit Pricing Arena With Buy Side Observed Data…
Participants in the credit markets have access to a new pricing data source from CMA, provider of the CMA DataVision service now available via Bloomberg Professional. CMA, founded in 2001 by credit specialists and with offices in London and New York, says its credit default swap (CDS) pricing service is differentiated from competing offerings by…
… While Markit Moves into Loan CDS Pricing as Volumes Escalate
Markit Group has launched a pricing service for loan credit default swaps (LCDSs), to meet demand from dealers and institutional investors wishing to take synthetic exposure to secured loan issuers. Volumes in the LCDS market have surged, the vendor says, with notional outstandings estimated to have grown more than 300 per cent to $40 billon…
BondDesk to Distribute DPC’s MuniPOINTS Data Service
DPC Data and BondDesk Group have forged a strategic alliance under which BondDesk, provider of a retail fixed income trading platform, will distribute DPC’s data service MuniPOINTS. The service summarises all the key facts on any US municipal bond deal in a one page sheet. MuniPOINTS has been implemented during the past year by a…
Solera Repurposes TAPMaster To Handle Loan Collateral Data
San Diego-based Solera Group has selected TAPMaster, the enterprise data management platform from TAP Solutions, to support the analytic and risk management demands of its mortgage loan production and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) advisory services business. Solera’s CEO Chris Wiley says the repurposing and extension of TAPMaster to enable it to cope with “the next level…
O’Connor Takes on Data Administration Role at AllianceBernstein
Donna R. O’Connor is now vice president, data administration at AllianceBernstein, where she has responsibility for consolidating the investment management firm’s global equities reference data, as part of its initiative to centralize research, trade support, execution, accounting and reporting systems. At June 30, AllianceBernstein had $625 billion in assets under management. O’Connor has previously held…
Avox Hires Australia-based Regional Manager to Oversee Asian Expansion
Deutsche Boerse owned Avox will open an Australia office on January 2. An as yet unnamed new regional manager will oversee Avox’s expansion in Australia, Asia and the Middle East. The counterparty data service provider says prospective business in the region is already developing.