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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The Jewel in the Reference Data Crown

How is your knowledge of India’s geography? By which I mean: Do you know where Pune and Chennai are? And how long does it take to get to Bangalore from Mumbai? Mine’s appalling. So I’m going to brush up on what’s where in relation to where. It’s a big place, so this could take a…

Thomson Reuters Outlines the Data Challenges and Opportunities of Form PF

Thomson Reuters has warned private fund advisors that they must be able to source substantial amounts of accurate data and automate reporting if they are to meet the regulatory challenge of Form PF. In an industry briefing published this month – titled Form PF: Data Takes Center Stage – Thomson Reuters global head of evaluated…

Andrew’s Blog: Enterprise Data Soap

The dust had hardly settled on the ‘news’ that former Thomson Reuters Enterprise group chief Jon Robson had left to join NYSE Technologies as CEO – still unconfirmed as of this time of writing – when we learned that his right hand man for the past several years, Enterprise Content head Gerry Buggy, was following…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Spreadsheet Wars Reprised

In an interview with the excellent Robert Elms on BBC Radio London the other day, author and autistic savant Daniel Tammet said something along the lines of: “Mathematics is more about how you came up with the answer than the answer itself.” Tammet was promoting his forthcoming new book, Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates…

OneMarketData Wins in Asia and Plans Front-Office Reference Data Product

OneMarketData has won its first OneTick customer in Asia and is planning the addition of reference data to the complex event processing (CEP) and tick data management solution. The company’s entry into Asia is with SBI Securities, a large online securities firm in Japan. SBI went to market with a competitive tender for systems integrators…

EDM Council Promotes Data Management Maturity Model as Industry Standard

The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council has completed the core content of a Data Management Maturity (DMM) model aimed at helping financial services firms improve risk management and operational efficiency. The EDM Council expects the DMM to become an industry standard and suggests it could, in the long term, become a regulatory requirement for firms…

Winning the Big Data Race for Trading Communication

By Paul Metcalfe, Orange Business Serviceswww.orange-business.com Big data is increasingly becoming a key concern for technologists, especially with the recent introduction of recording for voice and SMS on mobile phones for trading activities in the UK.  As additional voice recording requirements contribute to the growing repository of data firms have to hold to comply, the…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Bringing Markit EDM to Market

In recent weeks, on my usual rounds of meetings in the City – and in New York during Sifma week – I have been peppered by questions about the recent spate of corporate activity among enterprise data management platforms. In the two most visible examples, big data vendors have snapped up small, second-generation EDM platform…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Filling the Fund Income Data Gap

In what I see as further evidence of an enhanced market focus on corporate actions and related activities, a group of asset servicing and fund administration firms have launched a London-based working group focused on fund income data. The Fund Income Data Working Group (FIDWG) is hoping to address the dearth of available information on…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Riding the Regulatory Wave

Some years ago, I debated with the president of a well known enterprise data management platform provider about whether the market’s obsession with risk represented the ‘killer app’ the EDM segment had long been searching for. He wasn’t entirely convinced; I, of course, was. And although there are many good reasons to embark on an…