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Thomson Reuters Opens Up RICs to Address EC Antitrust Concerns
The industry has until January 25 to offer the European Commission feedback on Thomson Reuters’ proposal to allow clients to license its Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs) in order to access third-party and internal market data. Thomson Reuters made the proposal as part of its attempt to settle an EC investigation launched in 2009 into whether…
Thomson Reuters Welcomes the European Commission’s Market Test on Market Data Feed Initiatives
Thomson Reuters welcomes the decision by the European Commission to move forward with formal market testing of its proposal to extend usage rights of its Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs). Thomson Reuters believes that the extended usage rights will provide its customers useful support in managing their real-time market data needs in what is an increasingly…
Phatra Securities Public Company Limited Selects the Charles River IMS to Manage Private Funds in Thailand
Charles River Development, a front- and middle-office investment management solutions provider, today announced that Phatra Securities Public Company Limited, one of Thailand’s leading securities companies for institutions and high-net-worth individuals, has selected the Charles River Investment Management System to support its new project to establish a private fund department in Bangkok. Phatra’s users will benefit…
London Capital Group Selects ITRS Geneos for its Entire Application and Infrastructure Monitoring
Leading UK retail and professional spread betting provider, London Capital Group (LCG), is to use Geneos from ITRS Group, to monitor and manage all elements of their trading room technology to optimise speed, latency and reliability across their data and trading technology. LCG specialises in providing online trading services for private, professional and institutional customers….
BTG Pactual Signs with Calypso Technology for OTC Derivatives and Securities Support
Calypso Technology, Inc., a global application software provider of an integrated trading, risk and processing platform to financial institutions, announced today that the firm has signed with BTG Pactual, Brazil’s leading investment bank. The Calypso system will support their full range of portfolio assets including OTC derivatives and securities. BTG Pactual was seeking a solution…
Opinion: LEI – Persistent or Unique Identity?
By Chris Pickles, Head of Industry Initiatives, BT Global Banking & Financial Markets I’ve been struggling to understand the details behind the current initiative to create a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) – particularly an LEI as an ISO standard. One of the problems that we all often face when we get deeply immersed in a…
CFTC’s Gary Gensler: Shining a Light on Swaps Transparency
CFTC chairman Gary Gensler has urged market practitioners to rally behind the Dodd-Frank regulatory reforms that will boost transparency in derivatives markets and outlined the steps the derivatives regulatory agency has taken to improve transparency in the swaps markets it oversees. Speaking at a conference hosted by the Office of Financial Research and the Financial…
Virginie’s Blog – Does CGS and EC’s Agreement Cut the Mustard?
After last week’s heated industry discussions on the subject of data vendor licenses and IP rights (see commentary on which here), the announcement this week that the final Is have been dotted and Ts crossed on the agreement between Cusip Global Services (CGS) and the European Commission may come as something of a disappointment for…
CGS Reach Agreement with European Commission
CUSIP Global Services (CGS), a leading provider of securities identifiers and other solutions that enable efficient trading, clearing and settlement in capital markets throughout the world, today announced it has reached an agreement with the European Commission (EC) to create and distribute a new data feed of US ISINs tailored specifically to the needs of…
Sun Life Global Investments Selects Broadridge Canada’s Smart Fund Facts Solution
Broadridge Financial Solutions, today announced that Sun Life Global Investments (Canada) has started an initiative to use Broadridge Canada’s Smart Document Creation solution for the automated creation of regulatory Point-of-Sale (POS) Fund Facts documents. The Smart Document Creation solution will create Fund Facts documents for mutual funds through an automated document creation process. In addition…