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iSpheres Hires Burgos from SunGard STP Area
Tick data management provider iSpheres has hired John Burgos as senior sales engineer. Burgos, with experience in networks, STP and payments systems, was previously with SunGard. He will support New York area clients.
S&P Teams with Markit to Offer Entity-Issue Link for Credit Swaps
Following a custom implementation at Rabobank International, Standard & Poor’s has launched Reference Entity Link, aimed at the credit default swaps marketplace. The service, which draws upon Markit’s Reference Entity Database (RED) provides full issuer and issue coverage behind each CLIP code. CLIP codes – named for Cusip-Linked Entity Markit Code (Reference Data Review, March…
J.P. Morgan Adopts Central Reference Data Hub To Support Global Credit Trading Operation
J.P. Morgan Chase is building a business-aligned reference data hub in support of the major reengineering of its credit trading operation onto a single platform. The hub – essentially a central global hub for credit reference data – will commingle corporate data, vendor data and business-specific data into a single, unified service available to all…
Azdex Offers Not-for-Profit Access To Utility for Entity Identification
Counterparty data utility Azdex, backed by its 51% owner Deutsche Boerse, has put itself forward as a potential not-for-profit facilitator to help financial institutions meet the requirements for handling entity identifiers ahead of the deadline for MiFID, the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. According to Azdex CEO Ken Price, the company is not seeking…
FIMA Delivers Reference Data Messages
As promised, the Financial Information Management (FIMA) conference in London earlier this month offered a very useful forum for the reference data community to trade ideas and network. We spent both days there and found catching up with old friends, making new ones, and listening and learning about real-life implementa-tions a valuable use of our…
DSTi to Embed Xenomorph’s Time-Series Data Management Platform
DST International has signed an exclusive global agreement with Xenomorph to embed Xenomorph’s time-series data management functionality into its Investment Data Solutions platform, aimed at buy-side users. By offering this support for storage, manipulation and retrieval of largescale time-series data and providing analytic applications and plug-ins to make analytics available in other applications such as…
Wachovia Taps Teradata For Basel II Preparation
As part of a new risk management programme, U.S. bank Wachovia is implementing data warehousing technology from NCR subsidiary Teradata. It will use the technology to consolidate its existing disparate risk databases into a centralized warehousing environment. The vendor says the new risk data platform will also enable the bank to meet the data management…
Markit Launches European ABS Pricing Service
Markit has launched an independent pricing service for European asset-backed securities (ABS), providing same day bid/offer prices and the spreads and average life assumptions on more than 3,500 European ABSs. The service receives daily mark-to-market pricing inputs from all the major dealers, which Markit cleans and validates prior to price dissemination. Dealers have the ability…
Mondas Adds Fidelity ActionsXchange Data to Radica CAPS
A new alliance between Mondas, a corporate actions processing software provider, and Fidelity ActionsXchange, will allow clients working with both companies to receive cleansed corporate actions data feeds from Fidelity ActionsXchange’s ActionService product directly through Mondas’ Radica CAPS platform. The interface will allow Mondas’s Radica CAPS clients to automate the capture of global corporate actions…
EDM Council Swells Ranks at Second Meeting
The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council attracted a number of new members at its second meeting, held earlier this month. New members include ABN Amro, Barclays Capital, HSBC, M&G and Nomura, and bring the total membership to 39, representing 25 user firms and 12 members from the five founding vendor sponsors: Cicada, BearingPoint, GoldenSource, IBM…