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Risklab Centralises Risk Data Management with Xenomorph TimeScape
Risklab, the investment and risk solutions specialist within Allianz Global Investors, has implemented Xenomorph’s TimeScape to provide a dynamic risk data management platform that can support the risk services it operates on behalf of its institutional clients. The company considered a number of data management solutions before selecting Xenomorph’s TimeScape analytics and data management system….
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney – Back in N.Y.C.
On a conference call the other day chatting about – what else? – LEI, a friend remarked on how ridiculously busy he was. Jetting about the place, flying in to here and there, meeting with clients, risking life and limb for the good of the company. “It’s that time of the year,” he said. “Budget…
S&P Capital IQ Works with Dun & Bradstreet to Build Out Private Company Data
S&P Capital IQ has more than doubled its coverage of private company data in Western Europe and North America following a deal with Dun & Bradstreet to provide raw data that is then cleaned and checked for integrity by S&P Capital IQ. While S&P Capital IQ has offered some private company information for a couple…
OFR’s Blaszkowsky Challenges Industry to Make Data Fit for Purpose
David Blaszkowsky, senior policy advisor at the US Office of Financial Research (OFR), has challenged perceptions of data management in financial markets, saying data is not a conundrum but a business problem that can be tackled in a way that other industries have tackled problems using a rigorous and judicious approach. Speaking at this week’s…
Reference Data Management Takes Center Stage
By Sol Zlotchenko, VP Product Management, Paladyne Systems. Market developments and a host of major regulatory initiatives are forcing the arcane world of reference data into the spotlight. Reference data drives all investment firms’ activities. As Accenture points out, accurate reference and market data are essential for effective investment decisions, trade execution, securities pricing, portfolio…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: NYSE Tech Bags Robson – What Next?
It was with a mix of satisfaction and relief that I read the press release confirming the appointment of former Thomson Reuters Enterprise group president Jon Robson as CEO of NYSE Technologies. You, of course, read it here first. The question now is what it means for our marketplace. Doubtless our colleagues over at sister…
SIX Financial Information Adds Data to Meet Final Withholding Tax Requirements
SIX Financial Information is meeting the data demands of withholding tax treaties between Switzerland and the UK, Germany and Austria with the integration of tax qualifications for securities and corporate actions in its Valordata data feed and Telekurs iD data look-up terminal. The company has been working with paying agents, essentially banks, in Switzerland over…
SIX Financial Information Puts Defensibility at Core of Evaluated Pricing Service
SIX Financial Information has put defensibility at the heart of its next-generation Evaluated Pricing Service (EPS), which will replace existing pricing products covering complex securities pricing and fair value pricing. Migration to the new service started this week and is expected to be complete by the end of October with most existing customers simply switching…
DTCC Builds User Base Around ISO 20022 Corporate Actions Solution
DTCC has begun to build a user base around its ISO 20022 real-time corporate actions solution following the addition of BNY Mellon to existing user Brown Brothers Harriman. Both participated, along with JP Morgan, in a DTCC pilot programme that began in 2010 and led to the introduction of the DTCC standard-based solution late last…
DTCC and Swift Signal CICI Portal as First Mover Advantage in Contest to Build LEI Infrastructure
DTCC and Swift are back in play and aiming to be major providers to the global legal entity identifier (LEI) infrastructure after gaining first-mover advantage through this week’s official opening of a web portal for Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) interim compliant identifiers (CICIs). Selecting from four potential providers, the CFTC last month designated the…