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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The Humpty Dumpty Factor
Humpty Dumpty famously said: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” I think he was on to something. As I move within reference data circles – recently in London, Zurich, Frankfurt and New York – I find that the term reference data can be applied…
EDM Council Plans to Show Semantic Solution for LEI at Next Week’s FSB Meeting
The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council will throw its weight behind a semantic solution for the proposed global legal entity identifier (LEI) system at next week’s Financial Stability Board (FSB) meeting of the LEI Private Sector Preparatory Group (PSPG) in Basel. Managing director of the EDM Council, Michael Atkin, who is also a member of…
Thomson Reuters and BlackRock Partner to Deliver Fixed Income Derived Analytics
Thomson Reuters and BlackRock have joined forces to deliver fixed income derived analytics based on security indicative data and prices from the market data vendor and proprietary fixed income models designed by BlackRock Solutions. The models are used by BlackRock itself, as well as by customers of BlackRock Solutions’ Aladdin enterprise investment system. Thomson Reuters…
A-Team LEI Debate Calls Firms to Action on Issues of Complexity, Control and Cost
Development of a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system designed to curb systemic risk is making progress under the auspices of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), but major challenges remain as the industry and individual firms tackle the complexity of implementing the LEI, consider control mechanisms to maintain its integrity and find budget to fund…
Interactive Data Adds Fixed Income to Fair Value Services
Interactive Data’s release of fair value information services for international fixed income securities initially covers sovereign and corporate bonds in the EMEA region, but the company plans to extend coverage to fixed income securities in Asia and Australia, and also has plans to build out the real-time fair value information service it introduced in March…
Chris Bannocks Joins Barclays to Head Up Global Reference Data
Chris Bannocks has moved on from the role of managing director, global head of enterprise data management at Nomura International to head up reference data at Barclays. Bannocks joined Barclays in London this week and takes the title managing director, global head of reference data. His responsibility is reference data on a global basis across…
MoneyMate Proposes Solution to Holdings Data Issues of Solvency II
MoneyMate’s introduction of a look-through and reporting utility, which will provide data connectivity between insurance companies, asset managers and third party administrators, is aimed to support insurers that must comply with Solvency II and asset managers that want to protect the investment strategies they are using while providing necessary holdings data to insurers and their…
EDI Adds Bloomberg Open Symbology to Corporate Actions Services
Back-office reference data provider Exchange Data International (EDI) has implemented Bloomberg Global Securities Identifiers (BBGIDs) in its equities reference, pricing and corporate actions data feeds. The London-based provider is planning further implementation in its fixed income corporate actions service and forthcoming mortgage-backed securities service. The company’s decision to adopt Bloomberg’s Open Symbology (BSYM), a free-to-use…
DST Global Solutions Partners XSP to Deliver Corporate Actions Capability
DST Global Solutions has secured a global reseller agreement with corporate actions specialist XSP. The agreement covers both an integrated corporate actions module for the company’s HiPortfolio asset servicing solution and direct sales of the XSP software. DST will initially play on its strength in the Australian investment management market with a view to becoming…
Markit Gains Rights to Distribute Euroclear Bank’s Eurobond Reference Data
Euroclear Bank is transferring all existing and future distribution and commercialisation of its Eurobond reference data to Markit, leaving the bank to focus on core business around settlement and clearing, and giving the financial information services provider rights to distribute reference data covering more than 200,000 Eurobonds. The strategic agreement covers a broader set of…