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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: It’s Hot in New York
The New York Hilton is not best known for its air conditioning, and with temperatures threatening to hit 97 degrees Fahrenheit the second day of the Sifma Tech leaders conference promises to be challenging. It’s a busy and hot New York week. We kicked it off with some client meetings Monday, followed by the ubiquitous…
Netik’s Rebrand to CoreOne Underscores Repurposing of Data Management Assets
Netik, the data management company acquired by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group in 2008, has rebranded as CoreOne Technologies to reflect its new lease of life as a data creation, processing and distribution company with products based on Netik technologies and repurposed proprietary capital markets platforms. The brand change has been led by CoreOne…
FSB Outlines Plans for Federated Access to Centralised ISO 17442-Based LEI Database
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has outlined details of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) system that it will propose at the forthcoming G20 meeting on June 18-19 in Los Cabos, Mexico. The system would involve the creation of “a ‘logically’ centralised database of identifiers and corresponding reference data” that would appear seamless to users…
Cusip Global Services Talks Down Open Symbology Initiatives and Favours Standards
Cusip Global Services (CGS), the provider of Cusip securities identifiers owned by the American Bankers Association and managed by S&P Capital IQ, has set the cat among the pigeons by criticising proprietary symbologies for their lack of efficient operability. Rather, CGS reckons that standards, supported by organisations such as itself, are the only way forward towards efficient and reliable capital markets. A report on the power…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: ReferenceDataReview 2.0
In case you hadn’t already noticed, we used our Data Management Summit on May 22 to introduce our new ReferenceDataReview.com website. We officially relaunched RDR – which we first introduced back in 2003, when reference data was no more than a twinkle in the financial data segment’s eye – last week. The response so far…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Three Reasons to Be (Cheerful) at DMS
It’s taken a full week to recover from our Data Management Summit last week. More than 200 London market practitioners gathered to hear from a formidable cast of reference data and enterprise infrastructure characters. It was an action-packed day, with plenty of news you can use (or could, if you were there), earnest discussion, and…
A-Team Data Management Summit: Proliferation of Entity and Securities Identifiers Adds to Data Management Burden
Legal entity and securities identifiers have hit the headlines over past months, but their value to the financial industry and how they will be used remains uncertain. Leading an industry panel at this week’s A-Team Data Management Summit, A-Team Group editor-in-chief Andrew Delaney asked panellists for their views on securities identifiers, particularly legal entity identifiers…
Bloomberg to Launch EDM Service on Back of PolarLake Acquisition
Bloomberg’s surprise acquisition of Dublin-based enterprise data management specialist PolarLake is aimed at creating a central data validation utility for pricing, reference data and corporate actions. The deal follows Markit’s surprise acquisition of Cadis Software earlier this month – reputedly for a nine-figure sum – and Thomson Reuters’ decision to quit the enterprise data platform…
S&P Capital IQ Offers Data Solution for Customer Relationship Management
S&P Capital IQ has pulled together vast amounts of its in-house data to create a data solution for customer relationship management (CRM) systems. The aim of the company’s CRM Data Suite is to help users seed and power proprietary CRM systems that avoid duplication of records and are instead based on master records updated by…
Interactive Data Adds CDS to Valuation Service and Promises Speedy Delivery
Interactive Data has added credit default swaps (CDS) and two CDS indices to its independent OTC derivatives valuation service, increasing transparency around the evaluation of these asset classes and helping users to improve risk management and regulatory compliance through a better understanding of CDS valuations. The company is also working towards intra-day and ultimately near…