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Thomson Reuters Details Growth of Due Diligence around Evaluated Pricing Providers
Thomson Reuters experienced a four-fold increase in due diligence meetings examining its role as an evaluated pricing provider in 2012, signalling growing pressure on financial firms to check the viability of their content providers and underlining extended expectations of transparency. Jayme Fagas, head of evaluated pricing, enterprise content, at Thomson Reuters and a speaker at…
StatPro Partners Interactive Data in Push to Extend Evaluations Data
StatPro has taken a leap forward in evaluated pricing data following a partnership with Interactive Data that integrates the data providers’ evaluation data on 2.8 million fixed income securities into StatPro’s Revolution cloud-based portfolio analytics solution. StatPro will continue to offer evaluated pricing for about 0.5 million global equity securities, bringing its coverage to 3.2…
Data Management Summit – the Challenges of Corporate Actions
Automating corporate actions and reducing risk associated with manual intervention is proving difficult to pin down as the financial services industry struggles with a lack of standardisation, a growing volume and complexity of events, and different regional interpretations of events. A panel discussion at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit grappled with the problems…
Interactive Data Adds Extensible Service for Financial Transaction Tax
Interactive Data has added a data service to support the identification of instruments liable for French and Italian financial transaction taxes (FTTs). The service shifts the burden of maintaining and updating lists of securities that fall within the scope of transaction tax in each jurisdiction from financial firms to Interactive Data, and is ready to…
Industrialising Investment Banking Technology
What does an industrialised bank look like? We are embarking on a journey already undertaken by many other industries as they matured. Using the automotive industry as an example, we see: Use of technology and lean processes to drive down costs Reduction in end-product complexity Increased regulation for a safer industry Extensive technology cross-licensing and…
Data Management Summit – Paolo Mittiga Maps the Road Ahead
Paolo Mittiga, data management domain partner at Wipro Technologies, presented the opening keynote at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit (DMS) outlining a future of data management that will focus on the legal entity and real-time access to all data and be underpinned by technologies including semantic logic and dynamic ontology. Mittiga was welcomed…
Outsourcing Reference Data Management
The past 12 months has seen the emergence of new players offering Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services for Reference Data Management. These new arrivals expand the range of options available to financial institutions for addressing the challenges of regulatory compliance, operational cost reduction and scalability. But BPO has other benefits, and innovative adopters have benefited…
StatPro Selects SIX Financial Information to Support Equity Pricing Snapshot Service
StatPro has selected SIX Financial Information’s intraday pricing service to automate delivery of its delayed equity pricing snapshot service and expand the universe of data coverage within the service. The portfolio analytics specialist considered a number of potential partners before selecting SIX Financial Information on the basis of its high-quality data, and has dropped previous…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: DMS Fever
It’s finally here…. Our Data Management Summit takes place in London next Tuesday, March 12. It’s taken a lot of begging, bribing and cajoling, but I think I can say that we’ve got the best possible line-up for the event. In short, for anyone in the reference / risk / enterprise and related technologies space,…
EDI Teams with Derivative Partners to Deliver Independent Valuation of Structured Products
Exchange Data International (EDI) has forged an agreement with Derivative Partners to offer an independent valuation service for structured products and complex derivatives. The service was introduced this week in response to increasing client demand for independent portfolio valuations designed to meet regulatory requirements for transparency. Zurich-based Derivative Partners provides daily valuations, calculating over 200,000…