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Reuters Adds OTC Equity Options Prices to DataScope Select
In its third quarterly release this year of its hosted data management and extraction platform DataScope Select, Reuters has incorporated what it says are significant enhancements to the solution in the areas of OTC equity options pricing and counterparty data. The evaluated pricing services within Reuters DataScope Select have been extended with the provision of…
Interactive Data Leverages Xcitek Acquisition to Offer Intraday Corporate Actions Data
Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data business has introduced in North America a new service for delivery of corporate actions information to clients throughout the day. The service leverages Interactive Data’s acquisition of Xcitek earlier this year (Reference Data Review, April 2007); intraday delivery of corporate actions data was already on the Xcitek product…
Keep Your Data Vendors Close and Your Users Closer, Deutsche Bank EDM Head Says
Success in enterprise data management (EDM) programmes is dependent on education – of internal users, of data vendors and of the EDM team itself. So said Jim McCarthy, EDM programme manager at Deutsche Bank, speaking at FIMA 2007 in London earlier this month. “It’s a constant for us to ensure we can describe our data,…
Citi’s Bottega Pitches Office of Data Management as Solution to EDM Organisational Challenge
Enterprise data management (EDM) is “real and here”, but is there enough understanding of how to organise EDM programmes within firms to ensure they can be successful at it? This was the key question raised by John Bottega, chief data officer at Citi Markets & Banking, during his now regular keynote slot at FIMA, which…
Telekurs Adds Zacks Earnings Estimates to Reference, Market Data Products
Telekurs Financial now features new analysis and fundamental data from supplier Zacks Investment Research. Data from this information provider has been integrated into Telekurs Financial’s market and reference data products. Telekurs Financial’s products will carry quarterly and annual earnings estimates for around 4500 companies domiciled in the US and Canada, provided by Zacks Investment. Zacks…
LakeFront Data Ventures Adds Associates, Touts Service-Oriented Data Management Approach
The progress of LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV), the specialist data management consultancy led by former SunGard EDM man Dale Richards, appears to be gathering pace. Richards reports that the company has “been engaged by a number of players across the whole ecosystem” – including a major Wall Street bank, a large Canadian pension fund, a major…
A-Team Analysis: A New Dawn for Managed Reference Data Services?
The enterprise data management (EDM) systems marketplace has entered a new phase, as a rash of recent corporate activity and a general maturing of the providers and their offerings is enabling speedier implementations and faster returns, engendering new confidence in the value of EDM projects. The managed data services proposition has also been injected with…
Odyssey Gears Up to Make Bigger Splash in EDM Marketplace
Wealth and asset management systems specialist Odyssey is stepping up its focus on the enterprise data management systems marketplace, having recognised that the EDM capabilities it has created to support the implementation of its core applications are of value as a standalone solution. When Odyssey, which was founded in Luxembourg in 1995 and has its…
CUSIP Master File Database Available Online
The CUSIP Service Bureau (CSB) Master File database is now available through Standard & Poor’s SecurityMaster Services, a new web-based delivery platform designed to provide clients with near real-time access to a variety of securities data. With Standard & Poor’s SecurityMaster Services platform, clients will be able to access data directly from the CSB database…
JPMorgan to Roll Out New Corporate Actions Reporting
JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services has completed a pilot of Announcement Capture, a new service which captures global corporate actions announcements from multiple sources and generates a “golden record” for client reporting purposes. Announcement Capture is part of JPMorgan’s global STP programme to standardise, consolidate and deliver timely, comprehensive and accurate corporate actions announcement information to…