Articles by Nicholas Hamilton
New Frontiers in March Towards Greater Pricing Transparency
Pricing vendors have made great changes to address their customers' demands for greater transparency into their evaluated prices, but there is no shortage of ideas for making prices even more user-friendly
Cumberbatch Leaves Interactive Data After 15 Years
Bob Cumberbatch left the data vendor at the end of February and is planning to work either independently or as part of a consultancy to help firms manage regulatory and compliance projects
Interactive Data Launches Taxation List Service
The data vendor is helping its customers comply with new taxes on financial transactions by supplying daily updates on the securities that are affected
Torstone Upgrades Inferno Product For Transaction Taxes
The software vendor has introduced new rules to its post-trade processing product to help firms manage taxes on financial transactions that are being introduced in Europe
Evaluated Pricing Webcast: Examining The Perception Gap
During a webcast about evaluated pricing on March 13, industry representatives discussed how vendors are trying to improve confidence in their evaluated prices and help firms comply with new regulations by being more transparent about the data and…
Drooms Launches Virtual Data Room for AIFMD
The vendor of virtual data rooms says its new product will help fund managers collect and report documentation needed for compliance with the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive
DTCC Wins Approval For Japanese Trade Repository
The post-trade services vendor has secured approval to operate a trade repository for over-the-counter derivatives trades in Japan, and will use the same messaging and software capabilities as it does for its other repositories in the US and Europe
GBST Aims to Hasten Tax Data Processing
The software and services provider has launched a new rules-based engine that will help firms manage the transactional flows associated with existing and future taxes on financial transactions
Taxing Times
Decisions by France and Italy to introduce taxes on financial transactions have created new challenges for data managers who must identify all instruments that are affected. As more European countries plan to roll out similar taxes, firms will have to…
Derivative Partners Supplies Valuations To EDI
Exchange Data International has begun receiving structured product valuations from Swiss provider Derivative Partners, answering clients' needs for greater transparency and coverage
Powerful API Tool Helps Fund Grow 60%
Serone Capital Management says the powerful application programming interface and flexibility of Alphakinetic's Glide Fund Manager helped it create a return of 60% on its structured credit fund last year
Clearing Trade Reporting Hurdles
With many firms now familiar with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's trade reporting requirements, the next big challenge is the European Market Infrastructure Regulation. Once these two have been overcome, new reporting requirements in other…
Regulation Drives 25% Increase In Avox Entity Validation
The counterparty data vendor says the number of entities it has validated in the past 12 months has increased by a quarter to 1,053,085, as firms seek to comply with new data-intensive regulatory initiatives
DTCC Pilot Introduces ISO 20022 For Distribution Events
In the third phase of its corporate actions pilot, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation is introducing ISO 20022 messages for distribution events such as cash dividends, stock dividends, interest payments and principal payments
Soc Gen Adopts ISO 20022 for Funds in France
Strapline: Regulation & Standards
Five Years of SFTI in Europe
Sell-Side Technology caught up with Ian Jack, global head of infrastructure for the Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) at NYSE Technologies, in London earlier this week.
SIX To Help Firms Comply With Italian Transaction Tax
The data vendor will identify instruments that are in scope for the Italian financial transaction tax and provide the necessary tax information to clients
Torstone Uses OData Protocol Interface To Open Up Data
The software vendor says its new interface, which uses Microsoft's Open Data Protocol, will make it easy for users to access reference data
FISD Wants Data Contracts To Be Crisp
The Consumer Constituency Group of the Financial Information Services Division has begun an initiative for standardization of the language used in data contracts, to prevent different interpretations by end-user firms, data vendors and exchanges
Erste Bank Chooses Asset Control For EDM
The bank has become Asset Control's 28th client in Central and Eastern Europe and will use the AC Plus product to cleanse, validate and distribute reference data
Bloomberg Polarlake Launches EDM Managed Service
Swedbank has become the first client of the new service, which acquires and manages large volumes of data before distributing it to risk, trading and regulatory reporting systems
SIX Creates European Evaluated Pricing Team
The Frankfurt-based team will help clients comply with new regulations by providing valuations of European OTC and fixed-income products that can be defended and justified
Cox Leaves BNY for Professional Services Role
Matthew Cox will be responsible for growing new business in Europe and managing existing clients at Denver Perry, a professional services vendor
Thomson Reuters Launches Data Product Aimed at OMS Costs
The DataScope Workflow License is designed to reduce the costs of running order management systems by giving users access to a combination of reference data, pricing data and technical indicators