Data Management
Fitch Adds Commentaries to Implied Ratings
Fitch Ratings has added weekly commentaries to its market-implied ratings on credit default swaps and equities, highlighting key information within the ratings, officials tell Inside Market Data .
FTSE Launches Shariah Indexes
FTSE launched last week a series of Shariah-compliant indexes to meet growing demand for Islamic structured products from investors outside of Islamic countries in Asia.
KBC Begins Data Control Project
Brussels-based bank KBC Group is rolling out a major initiative to track and control market data usage and eliminate duplication of data services across the firm's global subsidiaries, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Ballista Preps to Launch Activ Data Arsenal
Ballista Securities, a new broker-dealer currently in the final stages of formation, will go live on a hosted ticker plant and multiple North American datafeeds from low-latency data provider Activ Financial when the firm begins operations next month.
StanChart Rolls Out MDSL in Asia
Standard Chartered Bank is deploying the MDM (Market Data Manager) and RPM (Request & Procurement Manager) systems from MDSL to provide data usage and cost management services across its offices in Asia.
Complex Corp Actions Increase Tax Issues
Corporate Actions
The Outsourcing Option
Enterprise Data Management
Interactive Data Delivers Puerto Rican GNMA Serial Notes Evaluations
Valuations & Pricing
FactSet Due to Launch Product Suite for Entity Data Management Customers
Business Entity Data
Spanning the Globe
EMERGING MARKETS
Stock Index Futures
ASIA REPORT
Firms are pursuing green IT strategies
THE GREEN HORIZON
New or upcoming on the research agenda:
Research roundup
Dark Pool Enigma
Editor's Letter
Mashups: The Morning After
THE DALY CLOSE
Banks take shares in Chi-X as volumes soar
Global agency broker Instinet announced last month that a consortium of 13 firms had taken an undisclosed minority holding in Chi-X Europe, the operator of Europe's first pan-European equity multi-lateral trading facility (MTF). Instinet will remain the…
Big interview: Talking shortt
It is no secret that a number of the sharpest business and IT minds in the financial services industry are firmly ensconced within top-tier investment banks. It follows, therefore, that some of the industry’s most advanced trading and risk management…
S&P rolls out CreditStats Direct
Standard & Poor's last month launched CreditStats Direct, a new web-based analytics service that provides data and tools to view the adjustments underlying S&P's ratings of debt issued by North American and European corporates and utilities.
Opra Sneezes, Exchanges Get the Hiccups
Much of the financial markets' technology focus post 9/11 has centered on business continuity, resiliency, and eliminating single points of failure, where an issue with one link in the chain that is today's financial markets can potentially impact all…