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Thomson Reuters Pushes DataScope Select into Front Office with DataScope Workflow License

Thomson Reuters is pushing DataScope Select, its delivery platform for non-streaming pricing and reference data, into the front office with the offer of data sets dedicated to the operation of transaction systems including order management systems (OMS), execution management systems (EMS) and portfolio management systems (PMS). Initial content is available immediately for OMS solutions under…

Bloomberg PolarLake Brings Managed Service for EDM to Market

Bloomberg PolarLake has rolled out the enterprise data management (EDM) managed service it proposed after its May 2012 acquisition by Bloomberg. The service will initially support security master and pricing data processing with more options to come later this year. Swedbank is its first user and SIX Financial Information its first data provider. PolarLake did…

Q&A: HPCC Systems’ Flavio Villanustre on Not Map Reduce and Open Source

HPCC Systems – a unit of LexisNexis – has been quietly building out a big data processing platform for several years, using it internally to power several of its parent’s services and applications. Now, it’s open sourcing the not-map reduce platform, and selling a commercial version to third parties. We got the detail from Dr….

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Just How Fat is Fatca?

With the final regulations for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) now published by the US Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS), financial institutions have no more excuses for failing to get their houses in order to be compliant with the act. They certainly aren’t happy with the additional regulatory burden of Fatca,…

Q&A: Dell’s Bob Barris on the ABCD of Big Data Analytics

Combining its server, storage and networking hardware with open source and partner software, and professional services, Dell is shaping up to be an IT heavyweight in the big data space. We tapped Dell VP of sales for financial services Bob Barris to explain the company’s offering, and he responded that it’s as easy as ABC…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: DMS 2013 – On LEI and Other Data Management Challenges

Data management is critical to the challenges facing financial services and capital markets participants. Across the board, from meeting increasing regulation and getting in line behind the forthcoming legal entity identifier (LEI) to enhancing transparency and risk management, data management is key. It features in many of the issues we have covered over the past…

Rimes Sets Out Bloomberg Open Symbology Adoption Plan

Rimes has joined the growing group of data service providers offering Bloomberg Open Symbology (BSYM) to help clients streamline workflow and reduce operational risk. The company has gone live with Bloomberg’s global security identifier (BBGID) on the Rimes Benchmark Data Service and is initially providing cover across the 100-plus equity data sources it offers. Later…

Wolters Kluwer Integrates Acquisitions to Deliver Single Platform Risk and Compliance Solutions

Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ decision to abandon the brand names of FRSGlobal, which it acquired in September 2010, and FinArch, which it acquired in July 2012, marks a major step forward in the company’s work to integrate the acquisitions’ products to form a combined offering driven by a single business oriented data architecture. The product…

Basel Committee Publishes Definitive Principles for Risk Data Aggregation and Reporting

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published ‘Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting’, a final document based on an earlier version of the principles issued in June 2012 for consultative purposes. The document includes 14 principles grouped into four headline topics and states that global systemically important banks (G-Sibs) should start…

Markit and CTI Tackle Fatca Compliance with Service Bureau

Markit and Compliance Technologies International (CTI) have teamed up to target the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) compliance market, but unlike most vendors the companies propose a Fatca service bureau rather than a deployed or hosted solution. Their aim is to serve fund types and sizes that typically outsource IT and do not have…