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JWG Takes MiFID Impact on Reference Data to High Granularity
The MiFID Joint Working Group has taken the bull by the horns with respect to entity identifiers and their role in the forthcoming EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, much hullabaloo about which continues to bubble in the London marketplace if nowhere else. The latest JWG white paper – described on Page 4 and available…
MiFID JWG Releases White Paper to Encourage Discussion of Reference Data
The MiFID Joint Working Group last month issued a discussion paper to look at the impact of the EU’s upcoming Markets in Financial Instruments Directive on reference data. The paper – The Implications for Reference Data under the Markets in Financial Instrument Directive – suggests that MiFID may have significant impact on several areas of…
Citadel Adds EDI’s Corporate Actions Feed to Cadis Platform …
Citadel Associates has developed an interface to Exchange Data International’s Worldwide Corporate Actions (WCA) data feed that will allow its Cadis Data Management Platform to access corporate actions announce-ments from the London-based supplier.
… As EDI Teams with Financial Information Inc.
Exchange Data International has teamed up with New Jersey-based Financial Information Inc. to offer Financial International Data Services, which integrates EDI’s international corporate actions data into Financial Information’s FII Online web-based query system, offering global coverage of corporate actions and transfer services.
IDC’s Strategic Deal with Markit Provides Cooperative Framework
This month’s data redistribution deal between Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data and Markit Group belies a more strategic alliance, than at first it appears. The agreement gives FT Interactive Data clients access to the models Markit uses for its bond valuations as well as use of Markit’s own credit default swap, credit index and…
Convexity Adopts Asset Control’s AC Plus as Starter Pack
Newly launched hedge fund Convexity Capital Management’s selection of Asset Control’s AC Plus platform is aimed at setting in place a reference data infrastructure that to underpin the fund’s expansion into new areas of business. Convexity implemented AC Plus in under two days, and is using the system as its central repository in support of…
Mergent’s BondViewer Offers Evaluated Pricing for U.S. Fixed Income
New York-based Mergent Inc., a subsidiary of Xinhua Finance, has released BondViewer, an on-demand web-based system for accessing the company’s database of U.S. taxable and municipal bonds, retail notes, U.S. agency issues and Treasury notes. Features include previous-day evaluated pricing for each bond provided by Mergent’s independent end-of-day evaluation service, and performance tracking. Terms and…
Columba, Telekurs Team Up To Supply CA Data to LCH.Clearnet
LCH.Clearnet has implemented a corporate actions data platform using a consolidated source of international corporate actions content from Telekurs Financial combined with Columba’s web-based, knowledge management platform. This customizable platform allows Telekurs Financial’s data and LCH.Clearnet’s in-house future events data to be aggregated, manipulated and distributed internally.
CheckFree Adds EDI CA Data Feed; Automates ISO 20022 Data Dictionaries
CheckFree Corp.’s CheckFree eVent corporate actions automation platform has created an interface to the ISO 15022-compliant corporate actions data feed from Exchange Data International (EDI). EDI’s corporate actions data is already integrated into a number of vendor systems, including, most recently, Mergent’s EventsData.com and BvDEP’s Osiris. Meanwhile, CheckFree is automating the way Message Broker, the…
J.P. Morgan Securities Upgrades CA System
J.P. Morgan Securities has gone live with the latest release of Xcitek’s XSP corporate actions automation and processing system. J.P. Morgan Securities has been using XSP for five years now and says the new version will be used to expand its use of ISO functionality, eliminating the need for manual diary entries. The firm will…