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OSI Spend Higher than Expected

Lessons Learnt to Prepare Firms for Cost-Basis Reporting Project

Inside Reference Data | News | Regulation & Standards | 01 May 2010

Data Adequacy Concerns Remain Within Regulatory Overhaul

LONDON - There are growing concerns that firms do not have the data necessary to comply with new regulatory requirements expected to come out in Europe, according to speakers at the Capital Markets Chamber debate in London in April. Since the European...

Inside Reference Data | News | Compliance | 01 May 2010

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Evaluations and Ref Data Business Seen as a Highlight of $3.4bn Interactive Data Buyout

BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS - Financial information provider Interactive Data has been acquired by private equity funds managed by Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus for $3.4 billion, in a deal market participants suggest underlines the data vendor's strong position...

Inside Reference Data | News | Organization & Management | 01 May 2010

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NAB Looks to Create Enterprise-Wide Data Standards, Plans End-to-End Metadata Implementation

MELBOURNE - National Australia Bank (NAB) has finished the initial phase of an enterprise domain model project, one of the firm's three ongoing data initiatives aimed at improving standardization and facilitating change, officials tell Inside Reference...

Inside Reference Data | News | Data Management | 01 May 2010

Industry Pushes for ISO 20022 Deadline

LONDON - The industry should set a deadline for the complete migration from messaging standard ISO 15022 to the new standard ISO 20022, according to speakers at the Corporate Actions 2010 conference in London in April. Industry players are set to start...

Inside Reference Data | News | Regulation & Standards | 01 May 2010

Report Compares Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters FI News

A comparative analysis of fixed income news coverage from Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters conducted by Burton-Taylor International Consulting reveals that while the two vendors deliver roughly the same number of fixed income news items per day, they differ...

Inside Market Data | Special | Organization & Management | 12 Apr 2010

Markit Expands the Scope of MEI, Assesses Opportunities in Counterparty Space

New York - Information provider Markit is about to start issuance of Market Entity Identitfier (MEI) codes for entities outside the syndicated loan market, the market the identifier was first launched to facilitate communication in, officials tell Inside...

Inside Reference Data | News | Regulation & Standards | 01 Apr 2010

ISIN Extension Proposal Moves through ISO Process

WASHINGTON, DC - The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has approved most of the suggested technical ISIN changes outlined by working group 1 (WG1) in the draft standard submitted to ISO in December, officials tell Inside Reference Data....

Inside Reference Data | News | Regulation & Standards | 10 Mar 2010

Increasing Collaboration

Financial instability has pushed the industry to recognize the need for improved data quality to reduce counterparty risk, making it a top priority for firms. Inside Reference Data gathered leading industry professionals to discuss how the role of data...

Inside Reference Data | Special | Regulation & Standards | 10 Mar 2010

OSI Conversion Finishes with Twitter Buzz, Consolidation Next Step

CHICAGO - Despite industry concerns about the tight deadline for the options symbology initiative (OSI), the conversion to the new options symbols on February 12 went smoothly. The day started with a Twitter buzz. "Goodbye old option symbology. You...

Inside Reference Data | News | Regulation & Standards | 10 Mar 2010

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