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TMX's McCrea Joins Audit Specialists JCV
Former exchange exec will help grow JCV's audit and IPR protection business.
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BCBS 239, LEI Questions Featured on Agenda
Opening Cross: Forget ‘Keep it Simple, Stupid.’ Think KIDD—’Keep it Diversified, Dummy"
The market data business is increasingly governed by the need to diversify to respond to market and investment trends. Trading firms seeking exposure to new opportunities diversify the datasets they consume in search of the one that will give them an…
JSE Begins FISD Certification Rollout to Data Staff
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange had its first market data staff take industry association FISD's Financial Information Associate (FIA) professional certification this month, and plans to make the program a prerequisite for its senior and client-facing…
Opening Cross: What’s the Most Important Tool in Your Box?
The most useful article in my toolbox isn’t a wrench or a multi-tool: it’s a magic potion originally invented to support the space program, known today simply as WD40. Though its inventors may not have envisaged it becoming a household name, the spray…
Macquarie Adopts FISD Data Certification
Australian bank Macquarie has begun implementing industry association FISD's Financial Information Associate (FIA) professional certification program for its market data staff, in response to requests from the bank's data team for a training and…
SIX Financial Info Pushes FISD FIA Certification
The US arm of Swiss data vendor SIX Financial Information has begun mandating that its client-facing staff achieve industry association FISD's Financial Information Associate (FIA) professional certification, to demonstrate the expertise of its employees.
Inside Market Data Hall of Fame: Bill Lee - 'The Statesman'
With his infectious chuckle and statesmanlike demeanor, Bill Lee could have been a diplomat. Instead, he has devoted his career to the market data industry, where he found an abundance of opportunities to put his negotiating skills to good use.
Opening Cross: Testing Times? Consider Lifelong Data Learning
From the day we are born until the day we die, there are always opportunities to learn something new. Once upon a time, your learning largely ended whenever you left school, and training meant learning how not to get killed or maimed by whatever…
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…
Vendors Reject "Unworkable" Euribor Data Policy
Market data vendors have expressed dissatisfaction with international interest rate-setting association Euribor-EBF's (European Banking Federation) new commercial model--which introduces fees for real-time Euribor rates for the first time, and…
Wake-Up Calls
Data management professionals are being alerted to several new developments in the areas of semantic technology, Unique Trade Identifiers, collaboration, data costs and big data
Timeliness is Money
Data policy recommendations by a FISD working group accept new or higher fees for real-time data but assert that data with lesser timeliness should not see fee increases. Michael Shashoua explores the ramifications of the group’s proposal
Non-Display Data Loophole
A FISD working group's best-practice recommendations for non-display data usage contain a point that could allow contradictory policies, depending on the timeliness of the data
FISD Overcomes Non-Display Best Practices Stalemate
The Business Issues Policy and Procedures (BIPPS) Working Group of industry association FISD has reached an agreement on best practices around non-display data usage policies, following 18 months of stalemate on the issue resulting from conflicts between…
Moody's, Nasdaq Sign On For CRISP Contracts
The organizations will beta test the standardized appendix for data contracts developed by a group from the FISD industry association.
2013 Review: Data Licenses Cause Friction Between Exchanges, Users
As exchange revenues from traditional activities such as trading continue to stagnate, more trading venues continued to increase market data fees and to change licensing policies to charge fees for datasets they previously made available at lower rates…
Why Collaboration Is Key
Quality data management—taking on challenges as varied as centralizing data, bridging data gaps, regulatory compliance, establishing identifiers and more—all depends on promoting functional collaboration.
FISD's David Anderson on Progress of FIA Data Certification Program
David Anderson of industry association FISD and Atradia Consulting outlines the progress of FISD's Financial Information Associate certification program at the recent Asia-Pacific Financial Information Conference.
FISD's Tom Davin Discusses Key Takeaways from APFIC 2013
Tom Davin, managing director of industry association FISD talks about new exchanges and new initiatives from FISD in the Asia-Pacific Region, following the Asia-Pacific Financial Information Conference.
BT's Cooper on Gaining Benefits from Big Data
Michael Cooper, CTO, Radianz, at BT Global Banking and Financial Markets, BT, explains how financial firms and vendors are harnessing the potential of big data, at the World Financial Information Conference hosted by the Financial Information Services…
NYSE Cancels Global Agreements as WFIC Attendees Call for Data Admin Standards
NYSE Euronext has confirmed that it has put the introduction of its proposed new Global Data Agreements (previously known as Global Data License Agreements)—which seek to standardize the international exchange group’s multiple legacy data policies—on…
Markit's Chidsey on Plans for Corp Actions Validation Service at WFIC 2013
Ed Chidsey, managing director, global co-head of data services, at Markit explains that the data and services vendor is rebuilding the platform of the Global Corporate Actions Validation Service it acquired in June, at the World Financial Information…