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S&P Capital IQ Launches Company Credit Risk Data Service
McGraw Hill Financial-owned data, research and analytics provider S&P Capital IQ will this week launch a new tool for assessing the probability of default for all public and private companies, dubbed PD (Probability of Default) Model Fundamentals, to…
Empirasign Expands Agency Mortgage Data
New York-based Empirasign Strategies, a provider of dealer offerings and “trade color” for mortgage and asset-backed securities, has expanded its database with the addition of data on Agency Fixed Rate Specified Offerings, to complete its coverage of…
Markit Confirms Federated Chat Partners
Data vendor Markit has named Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Barclays, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and GFI Group as official partners in its Federated Chat initiative, joining Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Thomson Reuters,…
StatPro Preps Expanded Revolution Data-Sharing Capabilities
UK-based portfolio analytics and investment data provider StatPro has added new permissioning capabilities to its Revolution cloud-based analytics platform, to allow users to share portfolio data with others within their organization, as well as with…
Panin AM Follows Flows Data with EPFR ChartBook
Indonesian investment manager Panin Asset Management has begun using fund flows data provider EPFR Global's recently launched ChartBook service to monitor investors' risk appetites and decisions about what regions and asset classes to invest in.
Swift's Janssens on CICI Changes: PART 1
Paul Janssens, Swift's legal entity identifier program director, explains the changes that have been made to the pre-local operating unit it manages with the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, including the removal of 18,000 codes
Swift's Janssens on CICI Changes: PART 2
Paul Janssens, Swift's legal entity identifier program director, explains how the messaging services provider and its partner, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, are helping users manage recent changes to the CFTC Interim Compliant Identifier…
Credit Benchmark Readies Launch for 2014
London-based startup consensus credit ratings provider Credit Benchmark has begun its proof-of-concept phase with an undisclosed number of contributing banks, ahead of a full production launch scheduled for early next year.
Alliance News Launches UK Equities Newswire, Partners with DPA-AFX, Proquote
UK-based newswire startup Alliance News will launch a real-time equities news service covering all listed UK stocks today, Friday, Oct. 4, to meet demand from traders and investors for UK-focused news to inform investment decisions.
Interxion to Host ASX London PoP
The Australian Securities Exchange has set up a point of presence for its ASX Net Global connectivity network at European datacenter provider Interxion's facility in the City of London, to provide UK and European trading firms with cross-connect access…
Lucena Adds Intra-day Event Detection
Atlanta, GA-based decision support analytics provider Lucena Research has added support for intra-day signals to its QuantDesk Event Analyzer module, a machine learning event study technology for identifying buying and selling opportunities based on…
Centralization Takes Center Stage
Data management professionals are increasingly looking for ways to integrate and centralize reference data, as seen in stories in the October issue of IRD. Channeling data directly from its sources could be a helpful pre-requisite
Three LEI Utilities Endorsed, 3,000 CICIs Sidelined
Pre-legal entity identifier utilities in the US, Germany and France have become the first to be admitted into the official interim LEI system, but 3,000 CFTC Interim Compliant Identifiers will not be globally recognized
Turkish Pre-LEI Utility Launched
Takasbank has begun to issue pre-legal entity identifiers and plans to launch an online registration portal before the end of the year
CME, Perseus Bow Precision Timestamping in Aurora Co-Lo
CME Group has installed highly accurate timing technology from network provider Perseus Telecom in its Aurora, Illinois co-location center, to allow clients to synchronize timing across trading systems in multiple datacenters.
Pre-LEI Issuers Respond to Demand for Consolidated Files
The London Stock Exchange has begun issuing consolidated files of pre-legal entity identifier data from all pre-local operating units and WM Datenservice plans to follow suit, following demand from data users for a single source of pre-LEI data
Thomson Reuters Taps TPI for China Bond Data
Thomson Reuters has added real-time Chinese bond data from Tullett Prebon Information, the data arm of interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, to its Eikon desktop terminal and standalone data applications, to provide domestic and international customers with…
Platts Forges Metals Partnership with Germany's MVS
Energy and commodities data provider Platts has struck a deal to take an undisclosed investment stake in German iron ore and steel data provider Minerals Value Service and become the exclusive distributor of MVS's web-based value-in-use tool, which…
State Street Adds Analytics Vets
State Street Global Exchange, the newly-formed data and analytics business of State Street, has hired Jeffrey Bohn as head of portfolio analytics and valuation, and Thomas Hughes as senior product strategist for analytics.
MDX, Ropnoy Ally for Spreadsheet Data Migrations
London-based market data connectivity platform and spreadsheet add-in provider MDX Technology has enlisted Ropnoy, a UK-based market data consultancy and software vendor, to help clients convert spreadsheets that consume data within their organizations…
Irish Stock Exchange Launches Pre-LOU
The Irish Stock Exchange has begun issuing pre-legal entity identifiers, harnessing key capabilities of the Ex-Stream system it uses to service its international listings business
Collins Heads SuperDerivatives SEF
Pricing software and data provider SuperDerivatives has appointed former head of strategic solutions David Collins as chief executive of the vendor's swap execution facility for currency and commodity derivatives, SDX Trading.
Data Vets Take Stake in Credit Deals Data Network
Former Thomson Reuters chief executive Tom Glocer and Credit Benchmark co-founders Donal Smith and Mark Faulkner (who were previously CEO and founder of securities lending data vendor Data Explorers) have taken an undisclosed ownership stake in…