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Wall Street Horizon Launches Real Time Dividends Monitor (RDM), First Service Delivering Automated, Dividend Data for Low-Latency Electronic Traders
Wall Street Horizon today announced the public launch of its Real Time Dividends Monitor (RDM) service, which uses proprietary algorithms to “read” wire-service dividend announcements and parse announcement data into structured fields usable by computerized processing systems. RDM is the first automated comprehensive source of information on dividend announcements available to the investment community. The…
NYSE Euronext Aims to Blaze Symbology Trail with Adoption of Bloomberg Bsym Codes
NYSE Euronext’s adoption of Bloomberg’s open-source security identifiers is aimed at setting the pace for industry change within the symbology segment, in the hopes of broadening client choice and reducing customer cost. The exchange operator, which provides a range of data feed services, is first adding the Bloomberg Open Symbology (Bsym) codes to its OpenBook…
Cosmos Releases Security and Reference Master
Cosmos Technologies, the product development arm of Indus Valley Partners, today announced general availability of Cosmos Security Master, a fully customizable, comprehensive security data management solution designed to centrally store and efficiently manage critical security information in a complex multi-fund, multi-strategy, multi-counterparty, multi-asset environment. Cosmos Security Master is the only commercial solution built from the…
Markit Launches Liquidity Metrics for Fixed Income Markets
Markit, a global financial information services company, today announced it will provide liquidity metrics for all credit default swaps (CDS), evaluated bonds, loans and asset backed securities (ABS) included in its pricing services. The aim is to give market participants a comprehensive view on the liquidity of financial assets across the fixed income markets. The…
UK FSA Reveals More About Plans for Soft Launch of Gabriel Liquidity Reporting, Pushes Back Data Quality Testing
During its most recent firms forum on the subject of liquidity reporting, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) confirmed that it is planning a soft launch for liquidity risk reporting on its online regulatory reporting system, Gathering Better Regulatory Information Electronically (Gabriel). As noted by the FSA in January, firms are being required to test…
SmartStream’s DClear Utilities Launches On Demand Data Dictionary Portal
As part of its wider bid to take on the reference data utility space, SmartStream Technologies has this week launched an on demand portal for access to verified and cleansed exchange and data provider documentation. John Mason, CEO of DClear, explains to Reference Data Review that although the Data Dictionary will form an integral part of the…
Russell Investments And Interactive Data Introduce Fair Value Adjusted Index Information For Select Russell Global Indices
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business will provide its Fair Value Information Service (FVIS) for international equities to Russell Investments for use in providing fair value adjusted information on Russell’s global equity indices. This information is designed to help…
Mackie Research Capital Goes Live on SunGard’s Fame for Pricing Data and Analytics
Mackie Research Capital, one of Canada’s largest independent full service investment firms, has implemented SunGard’s Fame for pricing data and analytics to help support the firm’s investment, research and trading strategies and activities. Providing live data and desktop tools for analysing investment results and opportunities, Fame helps Mackie Research Capital view and analyse accurate, aggregate…
PolarLake has Netted Eight New Clients This Year, Launches Reference Data Policy Engine
Commensurate with the current trend towards an uptick in investment in data management solutions this year, PolarLake’s CEO John Randles indicates that eight new clients have signed on the dotted line so far in 2010. The vendor has also just launched its PolarLake Reference Data Policy Engine, which Randles says is aimed at affording end…
Interactive Data Provides Independent Evaluations for GNMA Reverse Mortgage-Backed Securities
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business is now providing daily independent evaluations for fixed-rate reverse mortgage-backed securities (HMBS) issued under the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) programme. This programme is designed to provide liquidity…