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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: AIM Takes, Erm, Aim at London
The past several months have seen a recasting of what we at A-Team loosely term the ‘next-generation enterprise data management’ segment. Specifically, we’ve seen both PolarLake and Cadis Software – both of which followed the furrow ploughed over the years by the likes of Asset Control and Goldensource – snapped up by Bloomberg and Markit….
SIX Financial Partners Numerix to Add OTC Derivatives to Evaluated Pricing Service
SIX Financial Information has passed the first milestone on its roadmap for the Evaluated Pricing Service (EPS) it introduced in August 2012 by partnering Numerix to produce valuations for OTC derivatives. The outcome of the first phase of the partnership, EPS services covering interest rate swaps, credit default swaps and foreign exchange derivatives, went into…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Frying Pan – Fire
Two major financial data providers announced their third-quarter results in the past few days. A bit of minor drill-down suggests that reference data and related services are playing a significant role and could point the way forward to future growth. The latest numbers from NYSE Euronext, which reported its third-quarter earnings this week, don’t look…
LEI Development Embraces Change and Picks up Speed Ahead of G20 Meeting
The Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) third progress note on the legal entity identifier (LEI) initiative, released last week, has met with a positive response from those involved in shaping the system, potential infrastructure providers and market data vendors, despite changes to some proposals and the collapse of perceptions that have built up during debate on…
Interactive Data Provides Evaluated Pricing for INTEXcalc and Pushes on with Vantage Transparency Platform
Intex Solutions, a provider of structured securities deal models and cashflow analytics, has selected Interactive Data to provide independent evaluated prices on a range of securitised bonds for use in its INTEXcalc cashflow analysis application. The application is designed to offer transparency, ease of use and speed in analysing structured financial securities. The Interactive Data…
Euroclear Bank and SmartStream Plan Central Data Utility for Reference Data
Euroclear Bank’s partnership with SmartStream, announced early this week, will deliver a centralised reference data utility service designed to deliver high-quality data from a neutral source, reduce mismatches in reference data, cut back-office costs and provide an intra-day view of markets. The first service dedicated to Eurobond data will be available towards the end of…
Thomson Reuters Calls on Industry to Solve Issues of Standards Coexistence in Corporate Actions
Thomson Reuters is working with leaders in the corporate actions industry to drive a decision on how the coexistence of two standards in the discipline should be tackled to stem uncertainty in the market and help participants avoid the costs of implementing systems using both standards. The company has brought together the thoughts and opinions…
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…