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FASB Rule Leads Funds to Change Side-Pocket Valuations
Valuation processes used by hedge funds to price illiquid investments held in so-called "side pockets" are being disrupted by the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Statement 157, auditors warn.
Alex Gorelik
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Ipug Unveils New User Group Structure
UK market data industry association Ipug (the Information Providers User Group) is reorganizing the way its special interest groups (SIGs) are organized, to cover more issues and to elicit participation from a broader range of individuals at member firms.
Interactive Data Combines Exec Roles
Interactive Data is combining several management roles across its divisions, as part of an effort to unify its units and operate as "one company."
MiFID Challenge Is Integration, Not Volumes
The market data infrastructures of data vendors and end-user firms in Europe should be able to cope with the increases in market data expected as a result of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive's transparency rules and from new trading venues…
Xignite, WSH Ally for Earnings Calendar
Xignite, a provider of market data and applications via Web services, has partnered with Boston-based corporate actions calendars and analysis tools vendor Wall Street Horizon, to incorporate WSH's earnings calendar into the range of components Xignite…
Beat Koch Departs Telekurs
Long-time Telekurs Financial executive Beat Koch has left the Swiss data vendor after more than 15 years at the company, Inside Market Data has learned.
StarMine Buy Bolsters Reuters Analytics
Reuters is planning to use the recent acquisition of San Francisco-based equity analytics and research performance data provider StarMine to develop new analytics on Reuters' data sets and to broaden its offering for buy-side firms.
S&P's Rieger Defects to… S&P
JR Rieger, former vice president of securities evaluations at Standard & Poor's, has taken on a new role within a different department of the ratings agency and data vendor, after two weeks of confusion about his position.
Microsoft Acquires Parlano
NEW YORK—Operating system and application provider Microsoft has inked a deal to purchase persistent group-chat vendor Parlano, say vendor officials.