Data
LSE Goes Live with Pre-LOU
The London Stock Exchange has become the fourth organization to launch a pre-Local Operating Unit that will allocate pre-Legal Entity Identifiers and include a process of entity validation, duplication prevention and entity eligibility checks
Stepping Up to SEPA
The Single Euro Payments Area project is standardizing the identifiers and messaging formats used for transactions throughout the eurozone. With six months left to comply, some firms have a lot of data mapping work to do, writes Nicholas Hamilton
Europe's Build-Up to Basel III
The European Union’s Capital Requirements Directive IV will implement Basel III proposals across the continent when it comes into force at the beginning of next year. With firms likely to do much of their risk-modeling internally, the demands on data…
Open Platform: ‘As-a-Service' Should Come ‘As Standard' for Market Data
As firms wrestle with the opposing forces of reducing spend while increasing the performance of market data service to the enterprise, the reluctance to adopt an aggressive strategy to tackle the volatile market may be costing you more than you can…
Fidelity Sells Asset Control To Marlin
Marlin Equity Partners has acquired the data provider, paving the way for strategic planning to continue at Asset Control
Tech Mahindra Launches Data Platform
The data services provider acquired technology from UBS and has in turn signed on the bank as the first user of the new service.
IRD's Editor on Catalyzing Corporate Actions
Industry demand or a regulatory action will be needed to push through automation of corporate actions processing, an effort that has not yet reached critical mass in the industry
Managing Data For Efficiency and Cost
Fidelity ActionsXchange’s Deborah Culhane describes the benefits of a data-centric approach to regulatory compliance, and advises on how to evaluate the sustainability of outsourcing for data services
Burning Issues: Could an Instant Message Be Worth a Thousand Bloomberg Terminals?
Max Bowie takes a well earned vacation this week, leaving Faye Kilburn to discuss Markit's Open Federated Chat, a potential alternative to Bloomberg's Instant messenger
Battling Inertia In Corporate Actions
Automation efforts in corporate actions processing have stayed at stagnant levels, according to Inside Reference Data webcast surveys. Industry professionals are looking for a catalyst to spur improvements
GoldenSource Appoints Head of Sales for Americas
Bret Bange has rejoined the enterprise data management software vendor to take responsibility for its sales in the Americas, after spending more than two years at First Derivatives
DTCC Units Name New Execs, Including Deriv/SERV Data CEO
Marisol Collazo is one of several new appointments at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation.
Nasdaq Preps US Feed Changes
Exchange group Nasdaq OMX is launching new feeds for its equities, futures, BX and PSX markets, in a effort to replace legacy technology with higher performance alternatives.
On the Record: Mercado Keeps it ‘Simple'
Emilio Mercado has spent the bulk of his career working for market data vendors. Now, he's working for himself, running his own vendor, Simplified Financial Information, and aiming to simplify how firms manage market data usage and infrastructure, when…
IRD's Editor on Harnessing Big Data
Author Douglas Rushkoff advocates "personifying" the management of big data. What path will the financial industry take?
Open Platform: Value at Risk - The New Data Challenge
Following the financial crisis, the industry is reevaluating how it uses and calculates Value at Risk. But more accurate and frequent VaR needs the ability to capture and analyze more frequent underlying data, requiring a new approach to risk data…
Stay On The Ball
HSBC Securities Services’ Chris Johnson has won the respect of his peers for his close analysis of how regulatory change will impact data management. Johnson tells Nicholas Hamilton why EMIR, Dodd Frank and Fatca need the most urgent attention and warns…