Data Management
Tabb Report: Illiquid Bond Pricing is "World's Most Complex Sudoku Puzzle"
The data industry must work harder to improve pricing of illiquid fixed income asset classes by harnessing contextual data to understand instruments, particularly as demand continues to rise for intraday and real-time pricing, according to a report…
BMO Asset Management Adds IBOR
The firm has completed a multi-year effort to implement an investment book of record system.
Time to Set Data Quality in Motion
Most data governance programs pay inadequate attention to the quality of data when it is motion, but this oversight can be corrected, writes Angsuman Dutta, senior vice president of professional services at Infogix
Quality Time for Counterparty Data
A recent report by an international group of market supervisors has expressed concern about firms’ ability to report on their counterparties. Why does this area of data management remain so challenging and what should firms do to a get a handle on it,…
Applying Wikis To Data Management
The financial services industry has been slow to adopt the wiki technology that has changed the way people produce and share information. However, industry participants believe wikis have the potential to improve data quality in the financial industry,…
Waters Panelists: IBOR Must Be Governable, Fit For Purpose
To gain traction, an enterprise-level investment book of record's (IBOR’s) capabilities must be eminently demonstrable and reflect buy-side processes already in place, said panelists at this week’s Waters IBOR Breakfast Briefing in New York.
CPPIB's Jay Vyas: Keep the 'I' in IBOR
When developing an investment book of record (IBOR), it's important that traders and portfolio managers retain ownership of the data and that the IBOR remains an investment function, and not a function of compliance or reporting, according to Jay Vyas,…
Nasdaq Opens Test Centers Ahead of March Datafeeds Migration
Nasdaq OMX has made test environments available in its Carteret, NJ and Ashburn, VA datacenters for clients to test live data in new versions of its market data feeds that the exchange will roll out next month.
Spreadsheets and the Challenge of Model Risk Management
Modern businesses rely heavily on models for a wide range of applications, such as risk management, valuations, and reporting. The challenge is that large numbers of firms have failed to fully grasp that many models are based on, or make use of,…
Indata Launches iPM Epic with Eye Toward Big Data Challenges
Portfolio management systems provider Indata is looking to tackle the challenge of big data with the launch of iPM Epic.
Thomson Reuters Adds Twitter Sentiment Analysis Tool to Eikon
Thomson Reuters has added a news sentiment data tool to its flagship desktop platform Thomson Reuters Eikon, including sentiment analysis of Twitter feeds.
Opening Cross: Want Ketchup and Mustard on Your Data Dog?
What do sausages and market data have in common? A complex mix of ingredients, a balancing act of flavors to satisfy any hunger, a list of tasty add-ons, and a ravenous consumer base. So dig in!
VWD Expands Bonds, Ratings Content to Meet Fixed Income, Risk Demand
Frankfurt-based data vendor VWD has released version 3.4 of its Market Manager desktop application in an effort to tap into increased demand from savings banks, treasury departments and insurance companies for flexible bond calculations and for more…
New Warsaw Stock Exchange Indexes Up Focus on Small, Mid-Cap Stocks
The Warsaw Stock Exchange will start publishing two new price indexes─the WIG50 and WIG250─in March, replacing existing smaller, more selective index families, in a move to boost its coverage of small and medium-sized companies listed on its Main Market.
Freedom Index Co Bows Aussie, Africa Indexes
Startup not-for-profit index provider the Freedom Index Company-which launched last year to offer free and independent indexes to the asset management community-is planning to add Australian indexes to its family of free-of-charge products, and is now…
Canadian Doctors' Fund Taps QuoteMedia Data Terminals
MD Physician Services, an asset manager and investment advisory subsidiary of the Canadian Medical Association that serves Canadian doctors and their families has signed a three-year deal with Phoenix, Ariz.- and Canada-based data provider QuoteMedia to…
Wiener Börse Inks Data Deal to Distribute Kazakh Exchange Prices
Wiener Börse, the Vienna Stock Exchange, has signed an agreement with the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) to allow data vendors to obtain price data from the Kazakhstan market via the Austrian exchange's Alliance Data Highway datafeed.
Itaú Chooses Omgeo to Automate Post-trade Processing
Itaú Asset Management has replaced faxes, emails and spreadsheets with Omgeo's central matching platform and settlement instructions database
DWPBank Extends SIX Data Deal
Frankfurt-based Deutsche WertpapierService Bank (DWPBank) has signed a five-year extension to an existing deal for SIX Financial Information to supply the bank with market data and evaluated prices.
Metropol Partners Signs SunGard Ambit for CIM
SunGard has announced that Zurich-based Metropol Partners has deployed its Ambit Client Information Management (CIM) software.
Morningstar UK Integrates Alliance News
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar's UK subsidiary has begun distributing streaming equities news from UK-based newswire startup Alliance News via two of its investment research platforms, to enable users to view real-time…
Data Demand Drives Second Nasdaq India Office
Nasdaq OMX has opened a new development office in Bangalore, with the goal of boosting its global technology offerings and to meet growing demand in India for data products, exchange solutions and new listing opportunities.
Bureau van Dijk Expands Catalyst Risk Data Offering
Dutch company information provider Bureau van Dijk is launching two new products─Credit Catalyst and Procurement Catalyst─that assess reputational and financial risk by blending internal and external company intelligence in one platform.
CBOE Eyes 12-Month Latency Cuts
The Chicago Board Options Exchange is in the middle of an ongoing project to reduce data and transaction latency across its trading systems to less than 100 microseconds, building on existing latency reductions achieved as a result of moving its primary…