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Full Speed Ahead, but Get Management Buy-In First!
What with independent research groups predicting diametrically opposed directions of IT spending in financial services, it’s difficult to get a handle on how our industry’s recovery is really going. We were piqued to see Celent and TowerGroup disagreeing on the direction of the marketplace – one said European IT spending in finance was heading down,…
Credit Suisse First Boston Set to Make Selection of Data Management Suppliers for ODIN Project
Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) is set to decide imminently on a selection from a number of data management and workflow solutions providers for its internal ODIN global data management project. The chosen solutions (as there may be more than one), following an extensive evaluation of 17 suppliers that responded to an initial request for…
Tick Data Offers Cleansed TAQ Historical Data Service
Tick Data Inc. has launched Tick Equity Database, a cleansed version of the New York Stock Exchange’s Trade and Quote (TAQ) database of raw historical intraday data for all equities on major and regional U.S. exchanges. The Tick Equity Database, with clean trade and quote data from January 1, 1993, to present, was developed for…
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…