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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Three-Letter Acronym (TLA) Syndrome

Next week, as you may know, I’ll be heading to NYC and not for R&R. Our newest Brit on the Street (BOS) – Caroline Statman – and I will be doing the proverbial rounds of the reference data world to see what’s what and what will be what come 2013. It’s going to be a…

Invesco Builds Out Eagle Performance and Data Management Solutions

Invesco has completed the second implementation phase of Eagle Investment Systems’ performance measurement solution covering its retail and institutional business in the UK and continental Europe. The performance measurement system is complemented by Eagle’s Pace data management platform, which is being used to improve internal reporting across performance, holdings, transactions and risk metrics. The data…

Data Management: Time for a New Best Practice Model

By Nigel Pickering, Founder, www.ref-data.com Firms have been attempting the ‘data centralisation’ path for many years – yet few, if any, have truly succeeded in delivering a solution to the underlying drivers and objectives. Many will have concluded that integrating their core data is the route to managing reference and transactional data across the many…

MoneyMate Proposes Solution to Holdings Data Issues of Solvency II

MoneyMate’s introduction of a look-through and reporting utility, which will provide data connectivity between insurance companies, asset managers and third party administrators, is aimed to support insurers that must comply with Solvency II and asset managers that want to protect the investment strategies they are using while providing necessary holdings data to insurers and their…

Nasdaq OMX Sets up Data Storage Solution in the Amazon Cloud

Nasdaq OMX is challenging regulatory data management requirements with a cloud platform powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and tailored by Nasdaq OMX to provide secure and scalable data storage that cuts the cost of existing internal and external storage options. Called FinQloud, the cloud platform initially offers two regulatory solutions for US financial firms,…

European Commission Consults on Compilation of Indices and Benchmarks

The European Commission’s spotlight on data transparency has panned out to cover benchmarks and indices. Following the Libor scandal and the Commission’s move to amend proposals for market abuse regulation and criminal sanctions to clarify that any manipulation of benchmarks is illegal, it has issued a consultation paper on the production of benchmarks and market…

Netik Transformation into CoreOne Leaves Little of the EDM Specialist at Large

Last week’s formal introduction of PrimeOne Solutions, a hosted prime brokerage service within the CoreOne Technologies group, marks the end of the first wave of CoreOne development and the final resting place of Netik, the enterprise date management company that was acquired by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group in 2008 and rebranded as CoreOne…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Just When You Thought It Was Safe…

The CFTC yesterday approved approved the DTCC’s application to run a multi-asset class swap data repository (SDR) in the US, with the promise of increased transparency in the OTC derivatives marketplace. The depository – slated for launch on October 12 – doubtless will make use of the CICI interim legal entity identifier, cementing that nomenclature’s…

Markit Gains Rights to Distribute Euroclear Bank’s Eurobond Reference Data

Euroclear Bank is transferring all existing and future distribution and commercialisation of its Eurobond reference data to Markit, leaving the bank to focus on core business around settlement and clearing, and giving the financial information services provider rights to distribute reference data covering more than 200,000 Eurobonds. The strategic agreement covers a broader set of…

Friends Life Investments Start-up Implements Markit EDM Platform

Markit has made one of its first and fastest implementations of the enterprise data management (EDM) platform it acquired with Cadis Software back in June at Friends Life Investments, a start-up asset manager within Friends Life Group. Conversation between Friends Life Investments and potential technology providers started about six months ago ahead of a rigorous…