Data Management
AIM Commits to Three-Month, Fixed-Price Implementations
The enterprise data management software vendor says it is addressing concerns in the industry about expensive, drawn-out implementations by committing to implement its pricing and corporate actions application in three months for a fixed, pre-negotiated…
SunGard Launches Risk Reporting Service for Hedge Funds
SunGard's new managed service validates the data it receives from hedge funds against its risk model database and produces standard and customized risk reports overnight
Xenomorph Readies Marketplace of Third-Party Data Services
UK-based data management and analytics software provider Xenomorph is rolling out a portal of APIs and connectivity tools that will enable data consumers to access Web Services-based data sources for use in their internal applications or the vendor's…
Kilburn's Corner: The Devil's in the Detail
Every three months at Inside Market Data, we report on the quarterly financial results of the world's stock exchanges. This time round, I had the not-so-enviable task of wading through the marketing spiel in the announcements to dig out the only piece of…
Development of EDM and Managed Services -- Webcast
On May 8, Inside Reference Data hosted a webcast about enterprise data management, during which three experts in the field discussed the challenges of centralizing data and the benefits that can be gained by using managed services
Exchange Data Revenues Grow in Q1
The world's major stock exchanges have reported largely positive financial results for the first quarter of 2014, with both the developed and emerging markets seeing healthy increases in market data revenues.
Asset Class Data Raises Identifier Demand
Greater interest in asset classification data is fueling more demand for identification codes to manage it, exposing strains due to silos and multiple identifier choices, a data services provider's reference data executive says
Nasdaq Nordic Bows Tiered EOD Data Fees
Nasdaq OMX has introduced a new set of fees for data vendors who redistribute end-of-day data from its Nordic Exchange, succeeding a previous policy that allowed vendors to distribute end-of-day data to unlimited numbers of third-party recipients for a…
DTCC, Euroclear to Collaborate on Collateral Processing
The post-trade infrastructure providers plan to launch two utilities that will help users address increasing needs for collateral and more complex collateral processing due to regulatory change
Speed, Listing Exclusivity Promote New Volatility Index Options
Patrick Fay, director of listed derivatives at Russell Investments' index arm, says the way to a successful volatility index option is through the buy side. The rub? Not every buy-side firm understands derivatives the same way.
S&P Cap IQ Adds Numerix Pricing Models
S&P Capital IQ has incorporated pricing models from derivatives analytics, valuation and risk management software vendor Numerix into its Portfolio Risk solution, building on an existing multi-year agreement between Numerix and R2 Financial Technologies,…
Markit IPO Expected to Create Greater Competition, Innovation
Industry observers say the data services provider's decision to file for an initial public offering will increase competition and may lead to further acquisitions by the company
Confluence Promotes, Hires Former SunGard Execs
Pittsburgh-based fund data management software provider Confluence has promoted Todd Moyer to executive vice president of global business development, responsible for driving the vendor's global growth efforts, and reporting to chief executive Mark Evans.
Finding Value in Semantic Visualization
Strapline: Industry Warehouse
Nordea Markets Uses Caplin for E-Distribution
Scandinavian bank Nordea Markets has selected Liberator, the web streaming server from UK-based Caplin Systems, to deliver trade messages and market data to its new single-dealer platform offering.
Numerix, S&P Cap IQ Ink Pricing Partnership
S&P Capital IQ and Numerix have announced a multi-year partnership that will see the former's pricing models integrated within the latter's Portfolio Risk platform.
Rimes Adds Buy-Side Clients Amid Q1 Growth
Rimes has announced a number of client wins in North America at the end of Q1 2014, as its presence continues to grow with the opening of an office in San Francisco.
Google Finance Publishes JSE Delayed Data
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) is now making 15-minute-delayed equity prices available via Google Finance to enable local and global clients and investors to track price movements on JSE, alongside market updates from 35 stock exchanges globally.
SIX Provides Global Data to Mexico's Infosel
Mexican data vendor Infosel has enlisted the US arm of Swiss data provider SIX Financial Information as a content partner to provide the Mexico City-based vendor with global market data to serve its clients at asset managers, pension funds and broker…
Standard Chartered ‘Embraces’ FISD Data Training
Singapore-based Standard Chartered Bank has adopted industry association FISD’s Financial Information Associate (FIA) certification program as its formal training standard for market data staff in its resourcing operations spread across other parts of…
CUSIP Adds Coverage of Crowdfunding Offerings
The provision of CUSIPs for crowdfunding offerings is part of CUSIP Global Services efforts to cover new asset types and has become necessary because of the liberalization of legislation in the US governing private placements
Screen Bows 2014 InfoMatch, Boosts e-Reconciliation, Index License Management
Dutch market data cost and contract management software vendor Screen InfoMatch has rolled out the 2014 edition of its InfoMatch data inventory and cost management tool, in response to demand for improved license management features from asset managers,…
Crowdsourcing Makes A Giant Leap
The idea of crowdsourcing reference data processing and management work got a big boost this week, with a venture fund and former Thomson Reuters CEO lending their support to provider WorkFusion