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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: If Only…
I frequently find myself in meetings, on calls, at conferences, listening to people talk about the data and data management impact of regulation. I’ve heard it said many times, by suppliers mostly, that regulation is our friend. And it’s probably fair to say that without regulation, our industry would not be moving at quite the…
Lab49 Describes Development of UBS Neo Cross-Asset Platform
Lab49, a strategy, design and software development consultancy working with investment banks, asset managers and exchanges, has detailed its involvement in the creation of UBS’s Neo cross-asset platform, which is designed to provide access to all UBS Investment Bank products and services, and includes social web technologies and mobile access. The consultancy’s involvement as a…
Interactive Data Bases Managed Data Service on SAP Sybase RAP
Interactive Data has deployed SAP’s Sybase Real-time Analytics Platform (RAP) as the basis of a managed data service that combines securities, pricing and corporate actions data, and delivers data on demand to Microsoft Excel and other front and middle office proprietary and packaged applications. Marc Alvarez, senior director of reference data at Interactive Data, explains:…
Opinion: The Pricing & Reference Data Community – Helping You Tackle Regulatory Challenges
By Marion Leslie, Managing Director, Pricing & Reference Services, Thomson Reuters The current barrage of regulatory reforms sweeping the global financial services industry poses an enormous challenge for all sectors. These changes are impacting banks, broker/dealers, insurance companies, institutional asset managers, hedge funds and their asset servicers such as fund administrators, custodians and prime brokers…
First Derivatives and Pivotal Collaborate on Next-Generation Data Architecture
First Derivatives (FD) is providing consulting services around technology from Pivotal with a view to helping customers build next-generation data architectures and applications for risk management, regulatory compliance, market surveillance and trading. FD will work initially to help clients install and commission Pivotal software and build out intelligent data lakes using semantic tagging, but expects…
AIM Software Extends Market Reach with Business Applications for Data Management
AIM Software is challenging competitors in the enterprise data management (EDM) space with a business approach to data management that includes fixed price, packaged applications covering market data, reference data and corporate actions data. The Vienna, Austria based company says these solutions, plus a ‘Go West’ strategy focused on expansion in the US and UK,…
Software Vendors Welcome Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions’ Partner Programme
Software vendors and end users have welcomed the formalisation of Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions’ vendor partner programme that allows financial software vendors to make their apps ‘Bloomberg ready’ by connecting them to Bloomberg applications and providing access to Bloomberg data. Bloomberg introduced the programme with 125 financial software partners offering everything from order, execution and risk…
LEI Adoption Will Raise Standards, Governance & Transparency, says Webinar Panel – Even if It Isn’t Obvious Yet
The turmoil and confusion caused by the adoption of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI’s) for EMIR reporting last month will be worth it in the end, was the overriding conclusion of our expert webinar panel last week, who expect to eventually see meaningful improvements to industry standards, governance and transparency as a result. The panel comprising…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Peter Farley: The Show Moves On
With our inaugural Intelligent Trading Summit behind us a couple of weeks ago, the show moves on to New York where, on May 13, we will kick off another packed agenda with a keynote and panel discussion examining the key attributes of what is required from an Intelligent Trading architecture. Although some experts now say…
Thomson Reuters Eases the Burden of KYC Compliance with Accelus Org ID Managed Service
Thomson Reuters has set up a managed service designed to help financial institutions and their clients comply with Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements. Called Accelus Org ID, the service aims to increase the efficiency and reduce the cost of compliance by providing accurate, up to date identity data and avoiding the need to repeat the…