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European Commission Finally Releases S&P ISIN Fees Judgement, Considers Vendor to be Abusing its Dominant Position
Following 10 months of deliberation, the European Commission has finally released its preliminary findings on its inquiry into Standard & Poor’s pricing practices concerning International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs). According to its recent memo, the Commission considers the vendor to be “abusing its dominant position” as the sole appointed National Numbering Agency (NNA) for US…
Harnessing Data for Better Valuations
A-Team Group, a publishing and research company specialising in financial information technology, was commissioned by enterprise data management specialist GoldenSource to conduct research into the challenges of managing pricing and valuations data. Throughout the course of October 2009, A-Team Group researchers interviewed senior-level specialists closely aligned to market data or valuations. Several spanned multiple responsibilities…
Stronger SLAs, Governance and Data Champions are Recurring Themes at FIMA 2009
As well as the discussions around data standards and utilities, keeping a closer eye on your vendors, finding data champions and internal governance strategies were recurring themes throughout this year’s FIMA conference in London. Speakers challenges delegates to ask more of their third party vendor providers and to identify data champions within their own institutions…
Exchange Data International joins the Prime Source Independent Valuation Service
Prime Source, NYSE Euronext’s independent asset valuation service, is pleased to announce the addition of Exchange Data International Limited (“EDI”) as a “closing prices” contributor to its service. EDI is a recognized provider of Securities Reference and Corporate Actions Data covering more than 420,000 bonds worldwide and nearly 90,000 listed equities; – tracking over 150…
British Bank Selects Pricing Partners for the Independent Valuation of One of its Most Challenging Equity Structured Products
Pricing Partners announced today that one of the largest British banks has selected Price-it Online, Pricing Partners’ independent valuation platform, for the valuation on an advanced equity structured product that is both path dependent and American style, as well as contingent to a large quantity of shares. In accordance with the best practices in the…
Firms Need to Put Pricing and Valuations into a Wider EDM Context, Agrees Panel at A-Team Group, GoldenSource and Interactive Data Event
The pricing and valuations space is becoming ever more complex and data management teams focused on this function are being asked to do even more with fewer resources at hand, so how can they cope? The answer may lie in increasing automation and slotting this area of data management into a wider enterprise data management…
Thomson Reuters Expands Corporate Actions Data Coverage for Emerging Markets
Thomson Reuters today announced the expansion of its corporate actions data coverage to include Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Russia, and Serbia. The extended offering increases transparency and access to some of the world’s fastest growing emerging markets by providing details on total shares, capital changes, dividends, voting rights and nominal values accessible…
JWG-IT’s Di Giammarino Elaborates on Five Elements of Successful Data Strategy
In a follow up to his comments at last week’s FIMA 2009 conference, PJ Di Giammarino, CEO of think tank JWG-IT, speaks to Reference Data Review about his perspectives on where the data management community should be focusing its attentions. “Financial institutions and the data professionals working in them do not live in a black…
Clearstream Completes Rollout of Aim Software’s Gain Platform for Pricing
Luxembourg-based international central securities depositary (ICSD) Clearstream International has completed the rollout of Aim Software’s Gain platform as its new central pricing data management hub. The implementation has been going on for the last seven months and the platform is now able to support the daily pricing of more than one million securities, says Josef…
JWG-IT Pokes Data Sized Holes in UK’s Response to Europe’s Omnibus Directive
Industry think tank JWG-IT has this week sent a letter to the UK’s House of Commons Treasury Committee warning it of the dangers of overlooking the data infrastructure challenges inherent in the European Commission’s financial services “Omnibus” Directive. The UK government committee has just published its response to the Commission’s proposed directive but PJ Di…