Data Management
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
YCharts Splits Charting Capabilities, Preps Expanded ETF, Mutual Fund Data
Chicago-based fundamental data analysis platform provider YCharts has released enhancements to its charting capabilities, and is planning to add further capabilities and content in the coming weeks and months to broaden its appeal to existing and new…
ISDA Taps ICE Benchmark Admin to Run ISDAFIX Benchmark
Derivatives industry body the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has appointed ICE Benchmark Administration, the IntercontinentalExchange-owned independent benchmark operator that already acts as the new administrator for the LIBOR benchmark…
SmartTrade Technologies, FXSpotStream Ally for 4XBox
FXSpotStream, a consortium-owned multi-bank foreign exchange price aggregation service, has partnered with trading systems provider SmartTrade Technologies to launch 4XBox, a joint offering that combines SmartTrade's smart order routing, order and risk…
Fitch Ratings Unveils Ratings Navigator
Ratings agency Fitch has launched a new tool, Ratings Navigator, that enables users to visualize the factors impacting its rating of banks and compare them to each bank's business mix, lending type, asset quality, earnings and profitability, capital and…
FXSpotStream and SmartTrade Team Up on Pricing Tool
FXSpotStream, a multibank foreign exchange (FX) price aggregation service, and smartTrade Technologies, a provider of liquidity management solutions, have together launched 4X|Box, a tool that enables access, via an aggregated stream, to FXSpotStream's…
Xenomorph Adds Validation to TimeScape
The data management services provider now offers a Data Validation Dashboard as part of its TimeScape analytics product
GMEX Index Unit Strikes IRS Data Deal with Tullett Prebon Info
Global Derivatives Indices (GDI), the wholly owned index development and production subsidiary of derivatives exchange operator and consultancy Global Markets Exchange Group International (GMEX) has struck a deal with Tullett Prebon Information (TPI),…
J&J Publishes RFP for UTP Processor
New York-based management and market data consultancy Jordan & Jordan has distributed a request for proposal (RFP) for companies interesting in becoming the SIP processor for the UTP/Tape C consolidated feed of quote and trade data on Nasdaq-listed…
Dash Departs Bloomberg Indexes
Srikant Dash has left his role as global head of indexes at Bloomberg, Inside Market Data has learned.
Wall Street Horizon Readies ETF Calendar Feed
Woburn, Mass.-based corporate earnings and event data provider Wall Street Horizon has launched a new ETF Calendar Data Feed to provide institutional traders and market makers with access to announced, projected and historical exchange-traded fund…
WorkFusion Gains Funding
Venture capital firm Mohr Davidow Ventures is leading $15 million in funding for the crowdsourcing data operations company, including investment by former Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer
Datafeeds special report
April 2014 - sponsored by: S&P Capital IQ
Navigating Data Transparency
Data managers should confront the question of how to use new technologies and methods to make data transparent even under proprietary processes and climates
SIX Exchange Bows New Index Data
The SIX Swiss Exchange is to roll out real-time, delayed and historical data on a new index that tracks the 20 stocks from its Swiss Performance index with the highest dividend payments and profitability.
Shanghai Exchange to Distribute Deutsche Börse Data in China
Under a new partnership between Deutsche Börse and the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), SSE will license and distribute Deutsche Börse's market data in mainland China through its subsidiary China Investment Information Services.
Morningstar Partners UBS Delta for Solvency II Calculations
Research firm Morningstar UK and UBS Delta have announced a joint offering that will provide Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR) calculations to asset managers, as part of the Solvency II regulation.
FTSE-TMX Index JV Preps LatAm Indexes
FTSE TMS Global Debt Capital Markets, the index joint venture between London Stock Exchange-owned index provider FTSE and Canadian exchange group TMX, is preparing to launch a family of Latin American indexes, in partnership with Mexico-based pricing…
Barclays Live Now Available on the iPad
Barclays has launched the Barclays Live app for iPad devices, which provides institutional clients with access to the firm’s research, data and analytics in a personalized manner.