Data
S&P Cap IQ Eyes LatAm, ASEAN Third-Party Research Expansion
S&P Capital IQ is increasing its coverage of research and estimates data on companies in Latin America and Asia Pacific, as part of an ongoing project to build out the vendor's global network of third-party investment research providers and consumers.
Hexaware's New MarkLogic Alliance Sparks Interest
Hexaware is in discussions with three prospects about adopting the new services that have been developed as a result of its partnership with MarkLogic, a provider of an enterprise NoSQL database platform
DTCC Tests Corporate Actions Service
DTCC has begun testing of Corporate Actions Web, with plans to move all its users to the service by October. DTCC also is promoting greater migration to the ISO 20022 standard for corporate actions
Fédéris Chooses SimCorp for Solvency II, EMIR, AIFMD
Fédéris Gestion d'Actifs, a French asset management firm, will use SimCorp Dimension to provide access to the granular data needed for Solvency II and to execute more of its own regulatory reporting rather than delegating this to external providers
Capita Begins Rolling Out StatPro Revolution Analytics to Asset Managers
London-based fund administrator Capita Asset Services has begun providing clients with access to portfolio data and analytics software vendor StatPro's Revolution cloud-based analytics tool, to offer its customers more interactive reporting and analysis…
Interactive Data Taps Gartland To Lead Evaluated Pricing
Bill Gartland, formerly of TradingScreen, has been hired as senior director of Interactive Data's new Continuous Evaluations service
Interactive Data Gets Gartland for Real-Time Evaluated Pricing Service
Interactive Data has hired industry veteran Bill Gartland as senior director of the vendor's new Continuous Evaluations service, which will provide continuously-updating prices for fixed income securities.
Cambridge Semantics Bows User-Level Data Mapping, Integration Tool
Cambridge Semantics, a Boston-based provider of web and data integration technologies, has unveiled a version of its Anzo data platform aimed at allowing firms to quickly create semantic data models and integrate data based on those models.
KVH Taps MarketPrizm for Asia Co-Lo, Global Network Access
Japanese network and datacenter provider KVH will begin making access to Colt Telecom-owned market data and trading infrastructure vendor MarketPrizm's PrizmNet financial extranet available via its datacenters from July.
Noble Swaps BlueMatrix for Citi
Sara Noble has joined Citigroup as vice president of research distribution, responsible for managing the bank's global research distribution channel partnerships and improving buy-side clients' experience via those channels.
FXStreet Adds Real-Time Spreads to Broker Tables
Foreign exchange news, commentary and data provider FXStreet has added real-time spreads data to its Brokers Comparative Table service, which enables investors to compare the offerings of different brokers.
Vulpes Uses Markit to Consolidate Valuation, Risk Infrastructure
Vulpes Investment Management is using Markit's Portfolio Valuations service to reduce the number of vendors it relies on for valuations, risk and scenario analysis from five to two
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…
Open Platform: Weathering the Perfect Storm of Cost, Complexity and Regulation
As the importance of data rises, so does the attention paid by regulators to how it is managed, increasing the data management burden on buy-side firms and prompting them to consider new models, such as managed services, says Steve Cheng, global head of…
Trillium Adapts Surveyor to Spot HFT Gaming
Trillium Labs, a software development spin-off from New York-based proprietary trading firm Trillium Trading, has diversified the potential uses of its Surveyor tool for identifying potential market manipulation, and is positioning it for use by buy-side…
Personnel Choices
Managing resources is increasingly being seen as an important part of efforts to improve data quality and consistency. This will require unorthodox and creative approaches to organizing and deploying data staff
LEI Common File Format Published
Adoption of a common file format for pre-legal entity identifiers is intended to reduce the likelihood of duplicate records and incorrect data, and to make it easier to integrate data from different pre-local operating units
Linedata Adds Fatca Tax Withholding, AML Upgrades
Linedata's Mshare transfer agency software can now be used to automate the withholding of a 30% tax on US-sourced income to individuals and entities that are not compliant with the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
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…
Exchanges, FINRA Inch Closer to CAT Plan
US self-regulatory organizations including the US exchanges and regulator FINRA are preparing to narrow down the list of candidates for the role of processor of the US consolidated audit trail (CAT), which will capture all trades, quotes, cancellations…
Agencia Estado Adds Content, Capabilities to Broadcast+ Terminal
Brazilian data vendor Agencia Estado has added new content and functionality to its Broadcast+ data and news terminal that the vendor soft launched last year, leveraging a completely redesigned underlying technology architecture.
Industry Firms Consult on CAT NMS Plan Response
As self-regulatory organizations evaluate bids to become the Consolidated Audit Trail processor, the Development Advisory Group of industry firms and organizations will offer input on related time stamping and manual order issues
BlueMatrix Preps Research Datacenter, Tech Revamp
Research generation and distribution platform provider BlueMatrix is migrating to a new datacenter in the New York metro area in a bid to increase performance, reliability, capacity and service quality, officials say.