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ReferenceDataFactory Unveils Extendable Integration Data Model
ReferenceDataFactory has released the RDF Integration Data Model, the result of three years’ development. The new data model provides a standard business view of data across all asset types in a business centric representation. The RDF Integration Data Model is extendable, and can expose data through XML via messaging or web services or through a…
NAB Custodian Services Selects Markit Complex Derivatives Valuations…
NAB Custodian Services (NCS), a securities services provider in Australia, has appointed Markit provider of complex OTC derivatives valuations. Markit will provide NCS with an independent, post-trade calculation of the gross asset value of a portfolio of complex OTC derivative trades. Valuations will be provided on a daily basis for vanilla and exotic instruments, and…
Delta Lloyd Selects CMA For Price Verification
Delta Lloyd Asset Management, a Dutch fund manager, has selected CMA’s price verification data service, CMA DataVision. Arnold Gast, head of credit for Delta Lloyd Asset Management, says: “We selected CMA DataVision because it provides a timely, comprehensive, true market view. We also like CMA’s buy side aggregation model focus on gathering average pricing views…
CUSIP Service Bureau Launches CUSIP-Based ISIN Look-up Service
The CUSIP Service Bureau (CSB) has launched a web-based CSB-ISIN Look-up Service, which provides unique CUSIP-based International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) identifiers for more than 3.6 million securities and their issuers. This new web-based capability makes it easier for institutions to identify securities issued by the CSB and efficiently trade, settle and clear securities by…
… While Quantifi Extends Asset-Backed Securities Valuations
Quantifi Solutions has extended the functionality of its credit derivatives valuation software to include the ability to price correlation products on asset-backed securities (ABS) such as tranches on the ABX index (TABX). Quantifi’s new tools for valuing TABX and tranches on baskets of ABCDS build upon existing modelling tools for synthetic CDOs on corporate credits…
Interactive Data Increases Coverage of Euro ABS/MBS…
Interactive Data’s Pricing and Reference Data business has added new capabilities which will increase coverage of its evaluations for European asset-backed securities (ABS) and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) to approximately 3000 tranches. Interactive Data’s new models for providing evaluations will enhance European coverage of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), as well as a whole range of other…
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…