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Swift Renames Second Edition of ISO 15022 Standard
To avoid confusion, Swift plans to rename its planned second edition of the ISO 15022 messaging standard, which is used in many corporate actions and other financial applications. The new edition – which will be offered alongside the original – will be called UNIFI (for Universal Financial Industry messaging scheme) and will be designated a…
FTI Launches StreetConsolidator to Centralize Reference Data Management
Financial Technologies International (FTI) has launched StreetConsolidator, a data management platform that offers a centralized view of an institution’s reference data and market information, including proprietary data. The system combines FTI’s existing reference data and financial data management solutions. It allows users to centralize and consolidate data across business units. The aim is to offer…
Thomson Financial Adds Worldscope to Thomson ONE Banker
Thomson Financial continues to add content from its broad array of assets to the new ONE platform. This time, it’s added the Worldscope historical database to the Thomson ONE Banker service, aimed at the investment banking community. Worldscope is a major fundamental database containing financial statements, ratios, pricing and descriptive information.
Xcitek Enters Alliance with Financial Information Network
Corporate actions data vendor Xcitek has entered a strategic alliance with Financial Information Network, provider of accounting and trading solutions. The deal calls for Xcitek to provide FIN clients with corporate actions data and cost-basis information. According to Xcitek managing partner Joseph Carvalhido, “By combining FIN’s complete global portfolio management system with Xcitek’s renowned data,…
Reuters to Offer Barra Risk Models to Australian Fund Managers
Reuters is adding Barra’s risk analytics to the information services it offers to fund managers in Australia. The move will allow portfolio managers to obviate the traditional delay in getting risk information on a portfolio. Instead, managers will be able to derive this information from their core market monitoring systems using the integrated Barra models.
FT Interactive Data Signs with Absreports.com for Evaluations Data
FT Interactive Data will make its asset- and mortgage-backed securities evaluations data available via Absreports.com, which provides contact, transaction and performance data for the European securitization industry. Under the arrangement, visitors to absreports.com can click on a link to access FT Interactive Data’s FTS desktop portfolio administration tool, which can be used to view more…
Sitting Up and Taking Notice
Finally, the world seems to be paying attention to what industry protagonists have been saying about the reference data marketplace for what now seems like quite some time: that reference data is important to your business, no matter what it is. Maybe it’s because the protagonists have become more sophisticated. We were encouraged to hear…
State of Wisconsin Investment Board Selects Eagle for Reference Data Normalization Platform
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) has embarked on a major project to integrate and normalize the data used by its portfolio managers to run their investment models and to verify custodians’ reports on the performance of its external managers. SWIB is implementing Eagle Investment Systems’ Eagle Reference Manager platform at the heart of…
IBM Builds on Reference Data Initiative with Basel II Suite
Hot on the heels of its reference data deal with Dresdner Bank (Reference Data Review, January 2004), IBM this month launched a suite of data management solutions designed to cater for institutions seeking to comply with the Basel II operational risk regulations. The new suite – with the snappy name of Risk & Compliance-Basel II…
Reference Data’s Role in the Centralization of Operations
It’s always fun to hear TowerGroup’s Tim Lind expound on any aspect of the securities operations business. Tim has an uncanny knack for making what’s mundane to many, well, fun. This month’s performance – for it was one – was courtesy of SunGard EPI, the unit of the financial software monolith that deals with transactions…