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McGraw Hill Financial’s Split from S&P’s Ratings Agency Signals its High Hopes for Data, Pricing and Analytics
The decision taken by Standard & Poor’s to split its data, pricing and analytics business from its ratings agency business, and to rebrand it under the new moniker of McGraw Hill Financial, is a further signal that the vendor has high hopes for this area of its business. Given the flack that the ratings agencies…
Eagle Plans Revision of its Mission Statement to Reflect the Importance of ASP
Back in December, Eagle Investment Systems’ president and CEO John Lehner told Reference Data Review that the vendor would be focusing on bolstering its software as a service (SaaS) offering, adding new integration tools and increasing its global coverage this year. In order to reflect this work and the increased importance of its application service provider (ASP)…
Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Improves the Value of Data for Business Processes; Maintains Data Quality Leadership
Trillium Software, a business of Harte-Hanks, continued to be recognised by industry analysts and global customers as a leading data quality solutions provider in 2010. With a focus on how data discovery, data cleansing and data quality impact business process and operations results, Trillium Software clients utilised the award-winning Trillium Software System to discover critical…
Markit Calls for a Data Aggregator Within Swaps Data Repository Space
In its feedback to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) joint proposals regarding reporting to swaps data repositories, derivatives specialist vendor Markit suggests the industry needs a data aggregator in order to gather together the data spread across the various repositories in the market. This indicates that Markit may…
Ecclesiastical Insurance Group Selects DataFlux for Solvency II Data Management Implementation
DataFlux, a provider of data management solutions, today announced that Ecclesiastical Insurance Group, a commercial insurance specialist, has selected DataFlux technology to support the implementation of its data management programme. This initiative will help enable compliance with the Solvency II Directive data requirements and improve operational efficiency. The DataFlux Data Management Platform will be deployed…
Rates, Curves and Derived Data Management Remains a Neglected Area Following the Crisis, Says Xenomorph
Xenomorph, the analytics and data management solutions provider to global financial institutions, has today released its white paper ‘Rates, Curves and Surfaces – Golden Copy Management of Complex Datasets’. The white paper describes how, despite the increasing interest in risk management and tighter regulations following the crisis, the management of complex datasets – such as…
‘New’ Interactive Data Starts to Shake Institutional Trees
Six months after the completion of its acquisition by venture capitalists Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus, Interactive Data’s new corporate structure is beginning to emerge. As it puts the new management lineup in place, the company is undergoing a technology revamp, kicking off in its Real-time business, which itself is starting to attract significant institutional…
CQ Roll Call Takes Access to Unstructured Information to a New Level with MarkLogic
Following the bills that matter to you or simply gathering more information on the new US Congress that convened in Washington, DC earlier this year can now be accomplished more quickly and accurately than ever before. MarkLogic Corporation, the company revolutionising the way organisations leverage unstructured information, today announced that MarkLogic is powering a new…
Research Affiliates Selects Asset Control’s AC Invest Data Management Solution for Business Users
Research Affiliates, an investment management firm based in Newport Beach, California, has chosen Asset Control’s AC Invest data management solution to underpin its data management operations. Research Affiliates required a data management system that could expand along with its growing roster of products and affiliates around the world. The new system must allow them to…
SunGard’s Scianna on the Position, Risk and Ops Focused Restructure and Plans for the Stream Solution Set This Year
As part of its overall push to better integrate its various solution sets following so many acquisitions over the last few years, SunGard has created a new division focused on supporting the position, risk and operations functions within financial institutions. Various parts from the old brokerage and clearance business, the wider capital markets group and…