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LSE’s Husler Explains Decision Behind the Move of its Transaction Reporting Service onto UnaVista
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has offered a transaction reporting service, dubbed the Exchange Reporting Service (ERS), since 2002, but has recently moved the service onto its web-hosted platform UnaVista. According to Mark Husler, head of information services business development at the LSE, the exchange operator decided to move the service onto the platform in…
Aim Software and SIX Telekurs Launch 7th Edition of the Aim Global Reference Data and Risk Management Survey
Aim Software today announced the launch of its 7th international reference data and risk management survey which is designed to provide insights into the challenges, trends and planned investments for reference data automation and risk management in the financial industry. This year’s survey is sponsored by SIX Telekurs. In the dramatically changing world of finance,…
S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies Expands Coverage Beyond Rated Universe with Quantitatively Derived Corporate Credit Health Assessments
S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies, an independent and analytically separate business unit within Standard & Poor’s that provides users with market intelligence and analytic insight for risk-driven investment analysis, announced the launch of a new credit evaluation benchmark on its Global Credit Portal investor analytics platform. Called the Credit Health Panel, the new feature provides…
Volante Announces Support for Swift SR 2010 and EBAM
Powering finance with data management innovations, Volante Technologies, today announced the availability of updates to the Volante product suite with support for the latest Swift Standards Release 2010 as well as EBAM (Electronic Bank Account Management). Available as plug-ins to Volante integration tools, these include fully functional versions of the newest ISO 15022 and ISO…
Enhanced Standards Development Process Brings Higher Quality Standards to Market Twice as Fast
In the second half of 2009, SWIFT Standards completed a thorough review and redesign of its development process for new financial messages. The results of this significant overhaul, closely aligned with the ISO 20022 process, include a faster time to market by more than 60%, and higher quality standards due to rigorous pilot group testing…
NYSE Euronext Aims to Blaze Symbology Trail with Adoption of Bloomberg Bsym Codes
NYSE Euronext’s adoption of Bloomberg’s open-source security identifiers is aimed at setting the pace for industry change within the symbology segment, in the hopes of broadening client choice and reducing customer cost. The exchange operator, which provides a range of data feed services, is first adding the Bloomberg Open Symbology (Bsym) codes to its OpenBook…
Cosmos Releases Security and Reference Master
Cosmos Technologies, the product development arm of Indus Valley Partners, today announced general availability of Cosmos Security Master, a fully customizable, comprehensive security data management solution designed to centrally store and efficiently manage critical security information in a complex multi-fund, multi-strategy, multi-counterparty, multi-asset environment. Cosmos Security Master is the only commercial solution built from the…
UK Organisations Take Naive Approach to Data Centre Management, Nlyte Software Research Reveals
Nlyte Software, a provider of data centre performance management solutions, today released the results of its recent research that surveyed 200 UK CIOs on the importance of better managing and optimising the data centre infrastructure. The research, conducted by Vanson Bourne, shows a clear disconnect between reality and hype when it comes to implementing the…
SIX Telekurs’ 2009 Results Confirm Reference Data Biz Remains Bright Spot
Following on from the relatively robust performance of rival Thomson Reuters’ Enterprise division and Interactive Data’s overall performance last year, SIX Telekurs has added to the optimism in the reference data market with the announcement of a 2009 revenue increase of 1.8% on previous year’s figures for the reference data and valuations part of its…
Financial Institutions Call for Collaborative Action with Regulatory Support to Develop Missing Reference Data
The aforementioned two-day conference on reference data management for the banking industry has revealed major gaps in the industry’s ability to meet the tsunami of regulatory requirements. Officials from the European Central Bank, Committee of European Securities Regulators, JWG, the regulatory think-tank, and over 20 bankers discussed today’s reference data challenges and explored the industry’s…