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FT Interactive Data’s FTS Service is Now Available to Icon Customers
FT Interactive Data’s FTS service, which provides prices, evaluations, FX rates and indices data, is now available to users of Icon, Linedata Services’ back-office fund management and administration solution, through Icon’s Data Integration Platform (DIP). FTS is the first interface available under Icon’s Accredited Data Vendor Partner Programme launched earlier this year. Icon is planning…
Two New Corporate Bond Indices Launched to Increase Transparency
The National Association of Securities Dealer (NASD) and Bloomberg are jointly launching two new corporate bond indices: the NASD-Bloomberg Active Investment Grade U.S. Corporate Bond Index and the NASD-Bloomberg Active High Yield U.S. Corporate Bond Index. Both are generated solely from transactions prices of actively traded bonds as opposed to quotes or estimated prices. Index…
Mondas Add Real-Time Updates And Web Access to Radica CAPS
Mondas has released Version 4 of its Radica CAPS corporate actions platform. The new version provides a common platform for retail and institutional clients with web-enabled modules and an integral message broking toolkit called Prism. Radica CAPS 4 users will also have access to real-time updates from event feeds, Swift and position data via the…
MiFID Deadline May Slide Again; Does Buy Side Care?
Recent press reports suggest that MiFID’s implementation deadline will be pushed back to November 2007. EU member allegedly met on October 21 to discuss pushing back the deadline. Meanwhile, Investit, a buy-side consultancy, has warned that asset managers are unprepared for MiFID.
Markit RED Reaches 100 Customers Amid Flurry of Activity
Markit, a provider of pricing and valuations, has signed the 100th customer to its Reference Entity Database (RED), which provides reference entity and reference obligation identifiers for the credit default swaps market. The service, launched two years ago, has been actively adding clients and forming alliances with others vendors. Most recently Xenomorph (Reference Data Review,…
Transformer 2.3 Adds Support for FpML and ICMA TRAX 2005 Libraries
Trace Financial Ltd. has released version 2.3 of its Transformer data integration and message mediation platform. New to this version is support for FpML and ICMA TRAX 2005 message libraries. The new release also offers automatic web service deployment from within the Transformer development environment and a dynamic testing facility, either from files or databases,…
Xcitek Goes Live with First Cost Basis Client
Xcitek’s Cost Basis is now live at its first client site, an undisclosed online brokerage headquartered in San Francisco (erm, Charles Schwab, maybe?). The service, accessed through a secured session on the broker’s website, allows clients to calculate the cost basis of equity positions back to the original trade date. First introduced in 2004, Cost…
Algorithmics Partners with Banks For Credit Risk Data Initiative
Algorithmics has entered an agreement with the Pan-European Credit Data Consortium (PECDC), a credit risk data pooling initiative by European banks, to provide products and services to help satisfy pending Basel II IRB requirements for the staging, structuring and validation of historical default, loss and recovery data. Under the agreement, each PECDC member bank will…
Progress Real Time’s DataXtend Provides Data Integrity Capability
Progress Real Time, best known for its software for handling real-time complex event processing particularly in the electronic trading environment, has positioned a new product offering to exploit opportunities in the reference data environment. Progress Real Time this month launched its DataXtend line of infrastructure technologies, comprising a Replication Engine (RE) module and a Caching…
Standard & Poor’s Appoints James Price to Senior European Role
James Price has been appointed director of business development and marketing for Standard & Poor’s European Securities Services. Based in London, he reports to Krishna Biltoo, managing director of European data and information and oversees a team of five. Price’s main focus will be to raise Standard & Poor’s profile in the credit markets. He…