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Consider the Hub and Spoke
The industry's lack of common symbology is creating huge headaches
The Regulatory Reporting System Question: Retrofit or Greenfield?
Frankfurt event panel debates both options' value for compliance and meeting deadlines
Frankfurt Regulation Roadshow Panel: Retro-fit vs. Greenfield Regulatory Reporting Systems
Panelists debate different approaches to regulatory reporting in order to maintain compliance and to meet regulatory deadlines.
Buy-Side to Benefit by FactSet’s Portware Acquisition
Existing buy-side clients set to benefit by acquisition due to FactSet's extended reach, larger headcount, and data assets.
FactSet Begins Carrying Trendrating Momentum Reports
The Trendrating reports will be available to buy-side cleints of FactSet's Research Connect service.
VWD Taps FactSet, Thomson Vet Gijssel for CEO
Gijssel spent 18 years at FactSet, preceded by eight years at Thomson Financial.
Thomson Reuters Leads IMD/IRD Awards Tally as Race Tightens Between Bloomberg, Interactive Data
The results demonstrate an increasingly competitive landscape among the leading data vendors.
Opening Cross: Coopetition: Exposing You to a Bigger Audience, Or Just Leaving You Exposed?
Keep your friends close, and your partners closer.
FactSet Incorporates RavenPack Sentiment Indicators to Meet Buy-Side Demand
The RavenPack scores will provide FactSet clients with sentiment scores and abnormal sentiment.
Burton-Taylor: Data Spend Grows 4% in 2014; FactSet Overtakes Interactive Data
New report ranks top data vendors' market share by revenue.
FactSet Acquires Code Red
The deal will complete the vendor's research management offering
Regulation: The Driving Force Behind a Financial Overhaul
Factset's King argues that research management systems can provide audit trails for regulatory compliance.
FactSet Names Bloomberg's Miller Sales Head
FactSet Research Systems has appointed former Bloomberg exec Scott Miller executive vice president and global director of sales, replacing Michael Frankenfield, who the vendor has named vice chairman, and who will hold a senior sales advisory role.
FactSet Announces Fixed Income Ownership Data Feed
Product Helps Identify Owners of an Entity's Debt and Equity Issues
FactSet Adds Markit Global ETF Data to Workstation in Buy-Side Push
FactSet Research Systems has integrated data on more than 5,000 global exchange-traded funds from data vendor Markit into its workstation, to provide clients—particularly buy-side firms—with fund-level and constituent-level data on ETFs to inform their…
Opening Cross: Do You Think of Data as a Grgich or a Gato Negro?
The other day, I was chatting with the owner of my local coffee shop about different types of coffees. He prefers African beans, lightly roasted, with bright, fruity flavors, whereas I prefer South American or Indonesian beans, roasted to within an inch…
FactSet Releases New Fixed Income Ownership Feed
FactSet Research Systems has launched a new Fixed Income Ownership datafeed of information on funds holdings across all asset classes so investors can better identify who owns the debt of any entity they are considering investing in.
FactSet Embeds Revere GeoRev Data into Portfolio Analytics
FactSet Research Systems has integrated San Francisco-based research and industry classification provider Revere Data's Geographic Revenue (GeoRev) Exposure data into the portfolio analytics section of its workstation, after procuring the dataset as part…
Xignite Partners with FactSet
Cloud-based financial market data provider Xignite announced a partnership with data provider FactSet.
Update: Xignite Adds FactSet Fundamentals to On-Demand Data
San Mateo-based web services data provider Xignite is adding fundamental data and estimates from FactSet Research Systems to its suite of on-demand datasets, to provide clients with access to global company fundamental and financial data.
FactSet Adds MNI News
FactSet Research Systems will add real-time foreign exchange and fixed income news agency Market News International's MNI Main Wire to its workstation later this month.
Kilburn's Comment: Fear is What Keeps Us on the Plateau
As anyone who has tried to get in shape will know, there comes a point in any exercise regime when our bodies start to get used to whatever form of exercise (or torture) we are subjecting it to. Those ten pushups that left you sweating and shaking and…
SunGard MarketMap to Focus on 'Unique Content'
SunGard MarketMap, the market data arm of technology giant SunGard, is embarking on a new initiative to build out unique and proprietary content sets that leverage other areas of SunGard's business, in a bid to better differentiate itself from…
Opening Cross: Enterprise Messaging to Enterprise Management—It’s About Broadening Appeal
Pity my colleagues in London: Last Tuesday, workmen severed an ISDN cable in the street outside our office, cutting off all internet, phone, email and server access. Then on Wednesday, an explosion at an adjacent power sub-station forced a building…