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New Data Requirements for All as Conference Committee Passes Office of Financial Research Reforms

Following intensive discussions last week by the conference committee designated with the job of hammering out compromises on the US financial reform bill, the proposals for the establishment of the Office of Financial Research have finally been approved. The committee has published the final titles from the conference, which includes details of the data utility…

Half of Asset Manager Respondents to Citi Survey Plan to Outsource Valuation Function, 28% to Outsource Risk Management

Back and middle office functions such as evaluated pricing for illiquid instruments, data management, corporate actions processing and risk management are all on the radar for potential outsourcing by asset managers over the next three years, according to a recent survey by Citi. The survey, which involved 237 asset managers from 29 countries, indicates that…

EDGAR Online and UBmatrix to Merge, Creating Global XBRL Leader

EDGAR Online and UBmatrix today announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement that would create the first global end-to-end provider of solutions for the creation, validation and analysis of XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) content. UBmatrix is one of the original inventors of the XBRL financial standard, which is being mandated worldwide by many…

Eagle Offers Data Integration Services to Further Streamline Clients’ Implementation

Eagle Investment Systems, a provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, announced today that it now offers data integration services, a new service option within its hosted offering, Eagle ACCESS. This provides clients with reduced risk and shortened implementation timeframes by including data integration to support deployments of Eagle’s accounting and…

EBF Highlights Concerns About CCPs and Systemic Risk in its Feedback to Commission’s Market Infrastructure Reforms

There has been a lot of discussion about the pros and cons of mandating clearing for OTC derivatives and the comments received so far by the European Commission on the subject have tended to focus on a proportional, rather than broad brush, approach to the reforms. The European Banking Federation’s (EBF) response, for example, has been…

Volante Extends Messaging Support in FX Data and Settlements

Volante Technologies today announced its expansion in the foreign exchange messaging world with the availability of high-speed integration technology for price data from the Currenex ESP, as well as an integration model for the CLS settlement environment. Originally developed to integrate Currenex Executable Streaming Price (ESP) data into the low-latency data management architecture of a…

Volante Partners with QDBS, Enters Mexican Marketplace for Financial Data Management

Volante Technologies today announced its partnership with QDBS of Mexico City, a consulting firm and developer of software for local and multinational banks operating in Mexico. QDBS is using Volante technology for integration of SWIFT and other messaging in customer projects, as well as a new software solution that will be launched later this year….

GoldenSource’s New Data Warehouse Solution Has Already Netted Two Asset Management Clients, Says Meriton

EDM vendor GoldenSource has this week launched its new Data Warehouse solution on the market, pulling together its various data management offerings under the banner of a consolidated repository for a firm’s various data sets. Mike Meriton, CEO of the vendor, explains to Reference Data Review that it has already bagged two asset management clients for…

Philadelphia Fed’s Nakamura Proposes Instrument Database, But What About the Office of Financial Research?

Proof yet again that the US regulatory community might not be aware of the implications of the Office of Financial Research reform proposals comes in the form of recent comments made by Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank economist Leonard Nakamura. Nakamura made proposals last week that an all encompassing instrument database be established to help regulators…

XBRL Tagging of Corporate Actions Could Save the Industry US$400m per Year, According to DTCC, Swift and XBRL US Case Study

As promised by David Hands, director of asset services product management at DTCC Solutions, back in April, the group working on the XBRL and ISO mapping initiative has finally published its case study to illustrate why firms should adopt XBRL tagging for corporate actions. And that reason comes in the form of an estimated saving…