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Industry Groups Tailor Reference Data Standards Efforts to MiFID
The Reference Data Subject Group (RDSG) of the MiFID Joint Working Group is spearheading efforts to make entity and instrument identification standards a reality in time to ensure industry readiness for MiFID. A body of analytical work that began at the end of July is scheduled to be completed before year end. The RDSG produced…
Thomson Sets Central Role for QAI Platform In Reference Data Delivery Strategy
Thomson Financial’s acquisition of Quantitative Analytics Inc. (QAI), which closed earlier this year, gave the company a product aimed squarely at the quantitative analyst marketplace. But the QAI platform is destined to play a more significant role as the company crystallizes its strategy for distribution of reference data. Thomson Financial has spent the past couple…
CheckFree eVent Adds FT Interactive Data’s ISO 15022 Corporate Actions
CheckFree Corp. has developed an ISO 15022-compliant interface to FT Interactive Data’s corporate actions data feed for its eVent corporate actions processing platform. As a result, eVent clients will be able to receive, process and share corporate actions data without the need to convert to and from proprietary formats.
Principia Adds S&P Structured Finance Evalutions
Principia has added Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations structured finance evaluated pricing service to its Principia Structured Finance Platform. The addition is aimed at enhancing the platform’s cross-asset monitoring, end-of-day processing and risk management capabilities.
Can Corporate Actions Automate Without Wave of Regulatory Stick?
Despite a myriad of available software solutions aimed at automating corporate actions processing, industry participants can relish the prospect of unreliable data and manually intensive processing for some time to come. That’s among the findings of new research from TowerGroup that suggests that corporate actions processing remains one of the major roadblocks standing in the…
Jordan & Jordan Unveils Reference Data Testing Kit
Jordan & Jordan (J&J), a New York-headquartered management and infor-mation technology consulting firm, has introduced a so-called Reference Data Testing Framework (RDTF) and will offer it to clients as part of its reference data consulting services. Developed by J&J over the past two years, RDTF is a customizable framework and set of tools that address…
Reuters Targets Hedge Funds, Adds Lipper to DataScope Select
Reuters plans to integrate the hedge fund data of its Lipper subsidiary into the DataScope Select delivery system. The move marks a significant advance in Reuters’ stated aim of targeting the hedge fund marketplace, which it sees as an area of major potential growth. The addition of the Lipper Tass Hedge Fund Database to DataScope…
CB.Net Sets Outsourced Service For Payments Data Management
London-based provider of descriptive data for the bank payments area, CB.Net, has introduced an outsourced payments reference data service. The new CB.Net Payments Reference Data Service (PRDS) will effectively allow financial institutions to outsource management of their payments data, offloading to CB.Net such functions as sourcing, verifying, validating and normalizing for data required for international…
Thomson Financial Jumps into Bond Evaluations; Adds Standard & Poor’s Data to Intraday Snapshot
Thomson Financial is set to add Standard & Poor’s European bond valuations data to the intraday pricing feed it launched late last year. The move – which is to be announced as early as the first week in July – adds yet another player to the bond valuations marketplace, currently dominated by Interactive Data Corp.,…
And You Thought Your Structured Data Was in a Mess….
As the world of reference data moves to a phase of relative maturity, the landscape is becoming littered with the usual ‘after-dinner circuit’ of case studies, interviews and Powerpoints gloating about how the data challenge has finally been met. Instead of the chaos we uncovered three years ago – has it been that long? –…