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CME Credit Market Analysis Buy Gives Exchange Greater OTC Exposure, CMA New Sales Channel
The acquisition of credit derivatives data specialist Credit Market Analysis (CMA) by derivatives exchange CME Group is positioned as enabling CME to grow its activities in the OTC credit derivatives market, and as generating opportunities to combine the CMA data services with CME’s trade execution and clearing capabilities to create new offerings for the marketplace…
… And Adds Time Series to Valordata Feed
Telekurs Financial is introducing VDF Time Series as part of the Valordata Feed (VDF) data offering. Up until now, only daily valuation prices for various price types have been supplied through Telekurs Financial’s Valordata Feed. With the new VDF Time Series service, however, complete time series will now be included in VDF. With the time…
Life’s not fair…
Well it had to happen eventually: the whinging by some of the financial institutions making significant write-downs that it’s the accounting standards that are to blame, not any shortcoming on their part in allowing themselves to become dangerously over-exposed to instruments they didn’t properly understand. Accusations that “fair value” accounting standards are making the credit…
Capgemini Majors on Flexibility for Reference Data Outsourcing
Capgemini’s recently announced reference data management (RDM) services, which include business process outsourcing (BPO), are differentiated from competitive offerings by their flexibility, the consulting, technology and outsourcing provider claims. Capgemini will not be saying to clients, “here’s a solution – take it or leave it”, according to Saleel Nair, its global leader of reference data…
Petercam Live with Sterci’s KEYdata for Centralising Data Management
STP software vendor Sterci says Benelux-based private banking and asset management institution Petercam has been using its KEYdata solution for reference data management since January 2008. KEYdata is being used by the Petercam Group for centralising reference data on market instruments. The data received from various sources is controlled, validated and sometimes aggregated before being…
CME Acquires Credit Data Specialist CMA
The acquisition of credit derivatives data specialist Credit Market Analysis (CMA) by derivatives exchange CME Group is positioned as enabling CME to grow its activities in the OTC credit derivatives market, and as generating opportunities to combine the CMA data services with CME’s trade execution and clearing capabilities to create new offerings for the marketplace…
Principal Global Investors Implements CADIS in 11 Weeks
Cadis Software, formerly Citadel Associates, the provider of enterprise data management (EDM) systems specifically targeting the buy side, says Principal Global Investors has gone live with the Cadis EDM suite, after an implementation taking just 11 weeks. This follows the announcement late last year that the investment manager had selected the solution. The data management…
Capgemini Launches Reference Data Management Offering
Capgemini has launched a Reference Data Management (RDM) offering which it says provides accurate, responsive and transformed data management for capital markets participants, enabling clients to meet the demands of regulations such as MiFID, SEPA and Sarbanes-Oxley, according to the vendor. Hubert Giraud, global head, Capgemini Business Process Outsourcing Services, says: “Built on a foundation…
Datanomic Secures $3.5 Million in Investment
Data quality specialist Datanomic has secured a further $3.5 million investment on the back of a year of growth and momentum, it says. The investment, provided by 3i, DN Capital and Silicon Valley Bank, will fund Datanomic’s geographical expansion, strategic partnership activities, and help develop market penetration within its two core lines of business –…
StatPro to Supply ATB Investment Management with Portfolio Management, Data Services
StatPro has entered into a contract to supply its portfolio management solution (SPM) and StatPro Data Services (SDS) to ATB Investment Management. SDS delivers access to pricing, terms and conditions and reference data across all asset types, from all markets. Market data is available on an intraday, end-of-day and historical basis, and SDS provides coverage…