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UBS Fines Highlight Valuation Function Vulnerabilities

It remains to be seen whether firms have invested enough on price verification, an analyst has said, after UBS Global Asset Management (UBSGAM) has been...

Inside Reference Data | News | Pricing & Valuations | 07 Feb 2012

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FactSet Bows Free ‘Research Desk’ Reports

FactSet Research Systems has unveiled a new collection of free research reports and commentary on economic issues and company financials, dubbed FactSet Research Desk, which consolidates information from other parts of the vendor’s content base, and...

Inside Market Data | News | Research & Commentary | 06 Feb 2012

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RavenPack Eyes FX with Macro News Analytics

Spanish news analytics provider RavenPack is finalizing the events taxonomy of an upcoming product for detecting unscheduled macroeconomic and geopolitical events, which will help support foreign exchange cross-rate analysis and commodities price predictions,...

Inside Market Data | News | Data Display & Analytics | 06 Feb 2012

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BvD Adds Fitch Bank Credit Data to Bankscope, FACT

Bureau van Dijk adds Fitch Solutions' Bank Credit Model of ratings and credit default swap spreads to its Bankscope database of bank information

Inside Market Data | News | Content Focus | 06 Feb 2012

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Nasdaq Fixes RussellTick Indexes

Last Thursday, Feb. 2, Nasdaq experienced a 54-minute outage for 23 Russell indexes distributed via its RussellTick feed, caused by an inbound issue that meant its systems did not receive real-time tick prices. Nasdaq resolved the issue and began disseminating...

Inside Market Data | News | Indexes & Ratings | 06 Feb 2012

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Thomson Reuters Takes ‘Social Pulse’

Thomson Reuters last week unveiled Social Pulse, a new feature on reuters.com that highlights the most talked-about stories among “newsmakers” followed by Reuters’ news staff, and charts intraday stock sentiment based on natural-language processing,...

Inside Market Data | News | Data Display & Analytics | 06 Feb 2012

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ESMA Bows Ratings Database

The European Securities and Markets Authority has unveiled CEREP, a repository of free historical ratings data from ratings agencies operating in Europe, to allow investors to assess the performance and reliability of credit ratings by specific time periods,...

Inside Market Data | News | Regulation & Standards | 06 Feb 2012

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Numerix, Orchestrade Partner on Risk Analytics

Service provider Numerix is offering its pricing and risk analytics through the Orchestrade Financial Systems trading and risk platform, creating an integrated risk management service

Inside Reference Data | News | Data Management | 01 Feb 2012

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Thomson Reuters Axes DTN Agri Data Deal

Thomson Reuters last week told clients that it is ending a 10-year distribution deal for agricultural and commodities data provider Telvent DTN to carry the vendor’s agricultural news and data, making Thomson Reuters the sole distributor of its content...

Inside Market Data | News | Content Focus | 30 Jan 2012

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Greenwich Taps Connell for Info Business

Stamford, Conn.-based market research and strategy consultancy Greenwich Associates has created an information services division to generate broader research content and package existing content for the needs of a wider audience, and has hired data industry...

Inside Market Data | News | Research & Commentary | 30 Jan 2012

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