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Chrinon Sets Up Open LEIs Website Offering Access to Legal Entity Identifier Data
Chrinon, a UK-based company that gathers and provides open access to company data under the OpenCorporates brand, has set up a website called Open LEIs to provide an interface to the Global Legal Entity Identifier System (GLEIS). The company has been involved in the development of the GLEIS since the beginning of 2012, serving on…
Global LEI System is Here to Stay but Needs Further Development
The global Legal Entity Identifier system (GLEIS) has made its mark in the market and is here to stay, despite the continuing absence of a Central Operating Unit (COU) that will run the system, a lack of data standardisation that should be sorted out by the COU and concerns about how well entities will maintain…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: To Utility and Beyond!
Another penny has dropped in the onward march toward outsourced enterprise data management. UBS’s decision last month to outsource its securities reference data to iGate, which is using Markit’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solution – the former Cadis Software – to manage the data, fulfils a strategic intent to industrialise processes where possible. Perhaps more…
BBVA Selects Markit EDM as a Central Hub for its Enterprise Data
BBVA Asset Management has selected Markit’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform to centralise and streamline its data. Markit secured the contract after a competitive selection process including workshops and a final proof of concept. The platform will replace a mix of point-to-point and in-house developed data management solutions and will act as a central hub…
Vulpes Investment Management Revamps IT for Systematic Trading
Vulpes Investment Management is revamping its technology infrastructure as it moves out of volatility trading and into systematic trading. The revamp includes implementation of OneMarketData’s OneTick stream processing and tick data management solution for quantitative research, modelling and strategy development, as well as a Tora electronic trading platform and portfolio management system, Redis in-memory database…
Fitch Solutions Extends its Use of LEIs and Monitors Global Adoption
Fitch Solutions has extended its adoption of pre-Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) by adding the codes to unrated entities. The company has been adding pre-LEI codes to Fitch rated issuers and debt issues since early this year and is making all its LEI data available on the Fitch Ratings website and in its data feed products,…
SuperDerivatives Combines Market Data and Calculation Engine to Deliver Credit Value Adjustment Solution
SuperDerivatives has completed development of a credit value adjustment (CVA) solution for OTC derivatives portfolios and incorporated it into its eValueX valuation service, CorporeX corporate risk and compliance system, and SDX front-office system. Results of CVA calculations can be received by SuperDerivatives’ users as Excel or XML files that can be integrated back into their…
Onix Solutions and VDIware Plan to Extend Nanotick Historical Market Data Service to Venues beyond the CME
The Nanotick high-precision historical market data service developed by Onix Solutions (OnixS) and VDIware is to be extended beyond its initial scope as a service for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) with coverage of additional venues across Europe and North and South America due to come on stream next year. The joint initiative was set…
LEI Oversight Committee Endorses Pre-LOUs, but Delays Naming of Board Directors for the LEI Foundation
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the Global Legal Entity Identifier System (GLEIS) has endorsed the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Turkey’s Takasbank as pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs), making the LEI codes they issue or have issued acceptable for regulatory reporting in the jurisdictions represented by the ROC. While these endorsements mark progress in development…
Interactive Data Offers Ready-to-Test Fatca Data Service
Interactive Data has added its name to the list of market data vendors with reference data offerings designed to meet the compliance requirements of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca). It is also talking to third-party software providers about working together to provide complete solutions that could be easier for customers to implement…