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EDI Nearly Doubles GlobeTax’s e-TaxData Online Reference Data Product
Exchange Data International Limited (EDI), provider of international securities data, together with GlobeTax, provider of outsourced withholding tax services have announced the scaling up of the online market reference data product e-TaxData Online, adding an additional 71 markets of issue to the existing 91 markets already covered. This launch comes less than a year after…
2007: A good year for EDM?
The good news to kick off the year with is that reference data is getting more important. It is a major component of the recently announced wide-ranging HSBC enterprise data and technology deal we are told. Elsewhere in this issue of Reference Data Review there are further indications of this positive trend: a rock solid…
Microsoft’s MiFID Pitch Touts TAP Among Partner Solutions
Microsoft has set out its MiFID stall, and has identified reference data and client classification as two of the eight MiFID related challenges it wants to help financial institutions address through its initiative to offer “mix and match” MiFID solutions in conjunction with a range of partners. TAP Solutions, provider of the Microsoft based TAPMaster…
Counterparty Data Service a “Very Important Part” Of HSBC’s Global Licence Deal with Reuters
The new counterparty data service from Reuters, slated to go live in the second quarter, has emerged as a key component of the reference data element of the wide-ranging global data and technology infrastructure deal HSBC has signed with the vendor. Reuters describes reference data as “an extremely significant” component of the deal – which…
BoNY/Mellon Merger Brings Rivals Eagle and Netik Under One Roof
The merger of Bank of New York and Mellon Financial Corp. not only creates the world’s largest securities servicing and asset management firm globally, it also brings under one roof two fiercely rival data warehouse providers, Mellon-owned Eagle Investment Systems and Bank of New York-owned Netik, calling into question the future strategy of the firms’…
SunGard Lets Go EDM Experts Odho and Ord, Streamlines FAME
SunGard has made redundant members of the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) group within its Enterprise Solutions Group – Marc Odho and Rob Ord – as well as a small number of people from within the FAME business unit as part of a streamlining exercise. While the shedding of such high profile data experts has prompted…
Navigating the maturity curve
Confirmation that Barclays Global Investors has outsourced the bulk of its European investment operations to JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services adds weight to the argument that, at last, the practice of fund managers outsourcing their middle and back offices to custodian banks has reached maturity. The spectre of the failed Schroders deal is fading, and the…
CicadaRisk Merged into New RiskGrid Unit Within Investors Guaranty
As predicted in Reference Data Review, October 2006, Investors Guaranty Group has launched a new risk management solutions unit, RiskGrid Technologies, into which the operations and technology of CicadaRisk has been merged. The group is also aligning RiskGrid Technologies within a suite of companies and solutions that comprise its financial services industry vertical. CicadaRisk was…
S&P Upgrades Compustat Xpressfeed With New Data Items
Standard & Poor’s has completed a series of enhancements to its Compustat Xpressfeed offering. The enhancements include 1000 new company-level data items now available within Compustat data, which includes fundamental and market data on some 65,000 global securities. Among the data enhancements are: additional current and historical annual fundamental data and footnotes, including income statement…
ADP, Avox Sign Up to Sponsor EDM Council
ADP Brokerage Services Group and Deutsche Boerse-owned Avox have signed up as sponsors of the EDM Council. They join BearingPoint, Cicada, GoldenSource, IBM and SunGard. This development comes as the EDM Council undertakes its transition to a member-owned, rather than a sponsor-owned, model (Reference Data Review, September 2006). Ken Price, CEO of Avox, says this…