Data
Open Platform: Index Data License Spend's ‘Period of Enlightenment'
Index licensing is an area of rising cost and complexity that firms with investments linked to specific indexes cannot easily escape. But many are ignoring tools and practices already in use for managing real-time data, impacting their ability to control…
Euroclear To Launch Online Service For Corporate Actions
EasyWay has been developed in close collaboration with five financial firms and will provide users with a consolidated view of corporate actions data, including uninstructed balances, pending instructions and tri-party collateral
Private Sector Group Weighs Thin Versus Fat LEI Structure in Basel
Regulators will consider whether the legal and governance structures of the legal entity identifier system should be “thin” or “fat,” following presentations on the topic by private sector representatives at a workshop held by the Financial Stability…
Does One Data Silo Fit All?
Centralization of data across silos has moved to the forefront of risk management efforts in financial services. Michael Shashoua explores the parts data timeliness, transparency and standards are playing in organizing and centralizing data
New Alliance Calls For ISO 15022 Phase-Out
Several investment firms and service providers are presenting a business case for completing the industry's migration to the ISO 20022 messaging standard for corporate actions
Thomson Reuters Drills Oil Refinery Alerts Into Eikon
Oil traders using Eikon can now view real-time alerts from Genscape on the operational status of oil refineries
JSE Mulls Co-lo Offerings, Group Ticker Plant
In the wake of JSE's equities market migration to the MillenniumIT platform, the exchange plans its next phase of upgrades
LEI Operating Arm Should Be Lean And Fast, Say Basel Delegates
Regulators will consider recommendations that the operating arm of the legal entity identifier system should be kept lean and fast to begin with, following a meeting of the Financial Stability Board's Private Sector Preparatory Group
Industry Set to Battle Patents via Courts, Rewrites, M&A
Companies are turning their attention from the IP in their content to the IP in their content delivery mechanisms, prompting firms fearful of litigation to ditch incumbent technologies and demand contracts that indemnify them against infringement.
Thomson Reuters 2013 Price List Signals Standard Fees
Increases of up to 10 percent for some products are seen as a strategy to streamline product pricing
Polaris Appoints New Head Of Worldwide Sales
In his new role of president and head of worldwide sales and account management, Jitin Goyal will report to the CEO of the technology and services vendor
Dyson Appointed Deputy CIO At SEC
In her new role, Pamela Dyson will be responsible for continuing to modernize the information technology systems of the regulatory body, which is headquartered in Washington, DC