Data Management
RVS Incorporates OTC "Trade Evidence" into Rates Pricing
Benchmark rate pricing software vendor Rate Validation Services has launched a "trade-evidenced data service," dubbed Creator, which provides clients with consensus contributions, adjusted using actual executed trade data.
Mergermarket Completes £26M Perfect Info Buy
Financial publisher Mergermarket Group has closed its acquisition of London-based corporate data provider Perfect Information for £26 million from business publisher Centaur Media.
BATS Readies Consolidated BATS-Direct Edge Feed
BATS Global Markets is preparing to release a feed of market data that provides a base of information from all four equities markets run by its BATS and Direct Edge exchanges, following the merger of the two exchange operators at the start of this year.
VWD Adds Tullett US Bonds Data to Terminal
Frankfurt-based market data vendor VWD has added data on US Treasury bonds from Tullett Prebon Information, the data arm of interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, to its VWD Market Manager real-time data desktop application, in response to increasing demand…
UPDATE: LSE Eyes FTSE-Russell Index Data Combo
The London Stock Exchange plans to consolidate the index calculation and data distribution platforms of its FTSE index subsidiary with those of US-based index provider Russell Indexes—and may migrate the index platforms to proprietary LSE technologies,…
JSE Begins FISD Certification Rollout to Data Staff
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange had its first market data staff take industry association FISD's Financial Information Associate (FIA) professional certification this month, and plans to make the program a prerequisite for its senior and client-facing…
Data Management Special Report
June 2014 ─ sponsored by Eagle Investment Systems, ClusterSeven, and Xenomorph.
1010Data Incorporates TransUnion Credit Data
Big Data analytics and database provider 1010Data has added monthly loan-level credit data from credit bureau TransUnion, mapped to pools of mortgage-backed securities and risk-share securities issued by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.'s (Freddie…
LSE Lays Out Russell Acquisition Proposal
The London Stock Exchange has agreed to buy US-based index provider and asset manager Russell Investments from the Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company for $2.7 billion, in a move to diversify its revenue streams and expand into the US market.
BvD Grows Global Coverage, Adds Historical Fundamentals
Company information vendor Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (BvD) has broadened the global coverage of its core database of company fundamental data, and is also making historical data on company performance available to users for the first time, as…
DST Adds IBOR to Anova Products
The data services company added IBOR position collection and visualization capability to its Anova software suite
S&P Cap IQ Eyes LatAm, ASEAN Third-Party Research Expansion
S&P Capital IQ is increasing its coverage of research and estimates data on companies in Latin America and Asia Pacific, as part of an ongoing project to build out the vendor's global network of third-party investment research providers and consumers.
Hexaware's New MarkLogic Alliance Sparks Interest
Hexaware is in discussions with three prospects about adopting the new services that have been developed as a result of its partnership with MarkLogic, a provider of an enterprise NoSQL database platform
Capita Begins Rolling Out StatPro Revolution Analytics to Asset Managers
London-based fund administrator Capita Asset Services has begun providing clients with access to portfolio data and analytics software vendor StatPro's Revolution cloud-based analytics tool, to offer its customers more interactive reporting and analysis…
Interactive Data Gets Gartland for Real-Time Evaluated Pricing Service
Interactive Data has hired industry veteran Bill Gartland as senior director of the vendor's new Continuous Evaluations service, which will provide continuously-updating prices for fixed income securities.
Noble Swaps BlueMatrix for Citi
Sara Noble has joined Citigroup as vice president of research distribution, responsible for managing the bank's global research distribution channel partnerships and improving buy-side clients' experience via those channels.
FXStreet Adds Real-Time Spreads to Broker Tables
Foreign exchange news, commentary and data provider FXStreet has added real-time spreads data to its Brokers Comparative Table service, which enables investors to compare the offerings of different brokers.
Vulpes Uses Markit to Consolidate Valuation, Risk Infrastructure
Vulpes Investment Management is using Markit's Portfolio Valuations service to reduce the number of vendors it relies on for valuations, risk and scenario analysis from five to two
Open Platform: Weathering the Perfect Storm of Cost, Complexity and Regulation
As the importance of data rises, so does the attention paid by regulators to how it is managed, increasing the data management burden on buy-side firms and prompting them to consider new models, such as managed services, says Steve Cheng, global head of…
Personnel Choices
Managing resources is increasingly being seen as an important part of efforts to improve data quality and consistency. This will require unorthodox and creative approaches to organizing and deploying data staff
Macquarie Adopts FISD Data Certification
Australian bank Macquarie has begun implementing industry association FISD's Financial Information Associate (FIA) professional certification program for its market data staff, in response to requests from the bank's data team for a training and…
Exchanges, FINRA Inch Closer to CAT Plan
US self-regulatory organizations including the US exchanges and regulator FINRA are preparing to narrow down the list of candidates for the role of processor of the US consolidated audit trail (CAT), which will capture all trades, quotes, cancellations…
Agencia Estado Adds Content, Capabilities to Broadcast+ Terminal
Brazilian data vendor Agencia Estado has added new content and functionality to its Broadcast+ data and news terminal that the vendor soft launched last year, leveraging a completely redesigned underlying technology architecture.