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Talking Reference Data with Sarah Underwood: Data Quality and the LEI

Progress in the development of a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system, including the issue of 83,000 pre-LEIs by two active pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs), is acting as a catalyst for change with many financial institutions investing heavily to get their entity data in order. The process should prove beneficial in terms of improved data…

Big Data and Rising Internet Use Require Innovative Reference Data Management Solutions

Big data and internet proliferation are creating great opportunities in the financial sector, but firms must move quickly to develop innovative reference data solutions if they are to take advantage of these opportunities and remain competitive. Presenting at an ISITC Europe reference data briefing, Ken Price, vice president of sales at data management specialist Strevus…

Thomson Reuters Sets Plans for Newly Acquired Pricing Partners

Thomson Reuters’ acquisition of Paris-based Pricing Partners formalises a working relationship between the companies, adding derivatives evaluated pricing services and risk analytics, global reach, expertise and an expansion opportunity to Thomson Reuters Pricing Services. The acquisition was closed last week and while no financial details were disclosed, Thomson Reuters has confirmed that Pricing Partners will…

CounterpartyLink Supports Client Data Off-Boarding to Improve Efficiency and Cut Costs

CounterpartyLink, a provider of global legal entity and counterparty data, has reversed the concept of client on-boarding with the offer of a client off-boarding service designed to help large financial institutions clean up their client databases, improve operational efficiency and reduce operating costs. The company has been working with a handful of clients to off-board…

A-Team Group Webinar Discusses the Trend Towards On-Demand and Real-Time Valuations

Regulators and participants in fixed income markets are calling for more frequent valuation updates, but an emerging trend towards real-time valuations will be neither universal nor useful for all securities. A webinar hosted last week by A-Team Group editor- in-chief Andrew Delaney, and joined by experts from Bloomberg, Interactive Data and S&P Capital IQ, discussed…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Valuations (Part 2)

As I mentioned last week, issues around establishing fair value for less liquid securities remain a focus for many in the financial data business. The marketplace has seen the emergence of highly specialised financial products over the past several years, and data practitioners are having to come to grips with how to deal with these…

Eagle Enhances Software to Support Legal Entity Identifiers and Cleared Swaps

BNY Mellon subsidiary Eagle Investment Systems has stepped up to the regulatory plate with a release of its portfolio management platform to support accommodate entity identifiers (LEIs) and enhancements to its investment accounting solution to support the processing of swaps that are cleared in line with Dodd-Frank legislation. The company started to consider client needs…

Paladyne Systems Extends Implementation at First Customer GoldenTree Asset Management

GoldenTree Asset Management, the first customer to implement Paladyne Systems’ Analytics Master data aggregation, reporting and reconciliation software back in 2006 is nearing the end of an 18-month project to build a central data warehouse for its applications using version 8.0 of the software. According to Steven Lamm, head of application support and data management…

Thomson Reuters Adds Data Management Solution for Fatca Compliance

Thomson Reuters is making a second foray into the market for Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) compliance solutions with a data management product designed to help financial institutions identify and tag securities that are subject to Fatca regulation and those that are exempt or, in Fatca terms, grandfathered obligations. The company made its first…

Numerix Embeds ActivePivot In-Memory Analytics to Extend CrossAsset Server Capability

Numerix has embedded Quartet FS’s ActivePivot in-memory analytics technology into its CrossAsset Server enterprise analytics engine to deliver real-time analysis, aggregation and visualisation of the large volumes of complex data that result from CrossAsset Service calculations of market risk and counterparty credit risk and derivatives valuations. The partnership provides the first best-of-breed addition to Numerix’s…