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ISIPS Reflects Increased Industry Focus on Reference Data, A-Team Consulting Partners With Matrix Services.
We at Reference Data Review enjoyed our trip to this year’s ISIPS – the International Securities Industry Practitioners Symposium – event organised by STP Information Services in London. Reflecting the increased industry focus on reference data, the entire first day of the two-day event was given over to this very subject. Judging by the turnout,…
Reuters’ Restrictions on RIC Codes Relaxed in Bid for Widespread Standards Adoption
The decision by Reuters to license the use of its proprietary Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs) has drawn cautious welcomes from most involved in the reference data industry. But some question whether the contractual restrictions that Reuters hopes to enforce on the use of the codes will can be reconciled with their general adoption. The vendor,…
Asset Control Analyses Data With Analytics Suite
Netherlands-based data management specialist Asset Control has released AC Contour, an analytics tool, as part of its AC Business Suite of tools and applications. AC Contour is a tool for analysing data to create and visualize curves and surfaces including volatilities, correlation and variance covariance matrices, zero curves and bond curves. It was designed in…
Industry Groups RDUG, Redac Talk Of Merger
The two reference data industry groups – the US-based Reference Data Coalition (Redac) and the European Reference Data Users Group (RDUG) – are close to finalising details of how to merge their activities”. With the focus of both groups in the same area, it would seem a logical step to merge the efforts, providing the…
Gershon Leaves Misys For City Networks In Asia
London-based financial software and services provider City Networks has hired Andy Gershon as sales manager for Asia in the company’s Hong Kong office. Gershon joins a team of 30 staff based in Hong Kong. He moves from Misys’ trading and risk management software division MKI, where he was regional sales manager for the Greater China…
Fame Delivers Reference Data Engine On IBM And Linux
Fame Information Services is to implement its historical and reference data engine on the IBM’s AIX and Linux for zSeries operating systems as a result of a partnership with the computer giant. Joan Meltzer, IBM’s director, solutions marketing enterprise servers, says that products like Fame provide real performance improvement along with overall cost savings. “Customers…
Survey Finds Perception Gap On Data Quality
Roughly 40 per cent of corporate managers expect growth in the size and budget of their internal market data groups, but data management outsourcing is under consideration at a minority of firms according to a survey commissioned by data management specialist Iverson Financial Systems. The survey also identified a difference between users’ and vendors’ perceptions….
COR Acquires STP Firm One-Ten
London-based COR Financial Solutions, a developer of banking, securities and asset management software, has acquired international STP software firm One-Ten as part of its acquisition-fuelled growth plan. One-Ten’s products include the Salerio e2e STP solution, which it says is used by 25 asset management and outsourcing firms including Capital International and Crédit Lyonnais Asset Management….
Isis Settles On DST For Data Loading And More…
ISIS Asset Management has expanding the use of DST International’s products throughout its entire fund management operation, including the HiData data management solution as well as the related HiInvest front office system, HiMessaging STP and HiPortfolio back office solution, which will be used to support its outsourcing services for Friends Provident. ISIS worked with DST…
Events Register Reference Data on The Barometer Of Industry Concerns
For many involved in the financial technology industry, the arrival of the DWT Show is like the hearing the first cuckoo, a sign that Spring is in the air. It’s been an age since the Christmas party season, and DWT is perfectly timed for getting out and meeting colleagues in both the formal parts of…