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CIBC Taps Cicada, CPL for Legal Entity Platform, Data
CIBC World Markets’ selection of Cicada and its CounterpartyLink (CPL) sister company to provide a comprehensive legal entity data sourcing and management platform marks the first public client win for the two Cicada Cos. siblings. The implementation is aimed at helping the Canadian bank support Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and meet other regulatory requirements. The initial…
JWG Takes MiFID Impact on Reference Data to High Granularity
The MiFID Joint Working Group has taken the bull by the horns with respect to entity identifiers and their role in the forthcoming EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, much hullabaloo about which continues to bubble in the London marketplace if nowhere else. The latest JWG white paper – described on Page 4 and available…
MiFID JWG Releases White Paper to Encourage Discussion of Reference Data
The MiFID Joint Working Group last month issued a discussion paper to look at the impact of the EU’s upcoming Markets in Financial Instruments Directive on reference data. The paper – The Implications for Reference Data under the Markets in Financial Instrument Directive – suggests that MiFID may have significant impact on several areas of…
Standard & Poor’s Unveils Compustat Xpressfeed Loader Library
Standard & Poor’s has introduced Compustat Xpressfeed Loader Library, which enhances users’ ability to query, view and manipulate Compustat’s fundamental data within the basic Xpressfeed feed. The Library is available when using the Compustat Xpressfeed Loader platform and is delivered as a set of 35 database-stored procedures, functions and views. The resources in the Library…
Standard & Poor’s Introduces Enhanced Version of RatingsDirect
Standard & Poor’s has introduced an enhanced version of RatingsDirect, its real-time online credit ratings and research solution aimed at credit/research analysts, credit risk managers and portfolio managers. Highlights include expanded credit research and ratings coverage, redesigned ratings pages, a new Quick view menu, and enhancements to the e-mail alert system. RatingsDirect enables investment professionals…
Citadel Adds EDI’s Corporate Actions Feed to Cadis Platform …
Citadel Associates has developed an interface to Exchange Data International’s Worldwide Corporate Actions (WCA) data feed that will allow its Cadis Data Management Platform to access corporate actions announce-ments from the London-based supplier.
… As EDI Teams with Financial Information Inc.
Exchange Data International has teamed up with New Jersey-based Financial Information Inc. to offer Financial International Data Services, which integrates EDI’s international corporate actions data into Financial Information’s FII Online web-based query system, offering global coverage of corporate actions and transfer services.
Aozora Adds Counterparty Data To GoldenSource Implementation
Aozora Bank of Japan has added GoldenSource’s Counterparty Solution to the broad data management platform it is currently implementing across all of its operations. The Japanese bank last year selected GoldenSource’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Suite to provide the technology infrastructure for a centralized and cleansed repository for all types of reference data, including customer,…
IDC’s Strategic Deal with Markit Provides Cooperative Framework
This month’s data redistribution deal between Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data and Markit Group belies a more strategic alliance, than at first it appears. The agreement gives FT Interactive Data clients access to the models Markit uses for its bond valuations as well as use of Markit’s own credit default swap, credit index and…
Convexity Adopts Asset Control’s AC Plus as Starter Pack
Newly launched hedge fund Convexity Capital Management’s selection of Asset Control’s AC Plus platform is aimed at setting in place a reference data infrastructure that to underpin the fund’s expansion into new areas of business. Convexity implemented AC Plus in under two days, and is using the system as its central repository in support of…