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Soliton Enhances TimeSquare For Basel II Compliance
Soliton has enhanced its TimeSquare data management service to include an off-the-shelf cross-reference data model and cross-referenced ratings data to ensure credit risk compliance for Basel II. The cross-reference data model allows for the integration of multiple data vendor feeds using their proprietary identifiers, as well as supporting cross-referencing to other industry identifiers. It also…
IBEI Suppliers Tout Their Wares At London Gathering
A number of suppliers of business entity identifiers got together to tout their wares to a small assembled crowd of practitioner firms in London earlier this month under the ISITC banner. Although there is an ISO process underway for a naming convention related to International Business Entity Identifiers (IBEI), this is a slow process and…
EDI Deal with GlobeTax Adds Withholding Tax Data
Exchange Data International has entered an agreement to become the exclusive partner for GlobeTax’s withholding tax data and services for use within EDI’s data services. The new service will be available online as part of EDI’s e-Data Suite of products and will “offer a searchable matrix of over 43 million data points of withholding and…
Sydbank Selects AIM Software’s Data Management Software
Danish Bank Sydbank has chosen AIM Software’s data management system to enable it to fulfil the requirements of the EU Savings Tax Directive (EUSD – see Reference Data Focus insert, this issue). The deal sees AIM’s Gain DataDeskop being installed with integration to price, static and corporate actions data from Telekurs Financial’s ValorData Feed (VDF),…
Enterprise Data Management Council Established
A new Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council has been established by over 20 representatives from corporate and investment banks, asset management companies, and competing industry vendors. The development has been led by GoldenSource, SunGard and IBM. The aim is to use the council as a forum to discuss the best practices for standardising and integrating…
Standard & Poor’s Releases Crosswalk Web; Ratings IQuery
Standard & Poor’s is making its Crosswalk product – a joint venture with Dun & Bradstreet and Telekurs Financial – available via the web. Crosswalk, backed by sizeable players in the business entity identifier space, identifies the link between securities, issuers and their corporate entity hierarchy. Meanwhile, the company has also launched Ratings IQuery for…
JPMorgan Automates CAs for Clients to Access Via the Web
In order to better meet regulatory requirements, JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services is automating its corporate actions information for its institutional investor clients by offering web-based access to the data and eliminating the distribution of thousands of paper documents annually. It will provide web access to shareholder communications related to corporate events for U.S. and Canadian…
Hansard Signs Up for ValueLink
Hansard Administrative Services has signed up for ValueLink’s Pricing, Corporate Action, and Dividend services. Hansard will be leveraging ValueLink’s collection of 1,300 daily closing prices from hedge funds manually collected from websites and calls to fund managers.
Reuters Grows Third-Party Alliance Program with New Deals
Reuters has secured another four partnerships with software providers in its drive to “set up as many strategic alliances as possible”. And with 25% of their revenues – and growing – for the DataScope reference data service coming from the program, it’s little wonder that it is becoming an increasingly important strategy for the company….
Osney Event: Buy-Side Discuss Reference Data Resource, ROI
The resources of the buy-side often can’t compare with those of the sell-side when it comes to reference data management and measuring the cost impact of bad data in order to justify data management projects. This was one of the messages from a recent Technology Solutions for Asset Management (TSAM) conference organized by Osney Media….