Data
December 2016: Do You Manage or Solve Data?
Inside Data Management's combination of market data and reference data topics will reflect a growing convergence between different aspects of data management.
Taking 'Control': Asset Control CEO Mark Hepsworth
The industry veteran reflects on his career so far, and outlines the opportunities he sees for Asset Control under his leadership.
Indexes’ Long Walk to Freedom
Can Morningstar's decision to make more than 100 benchmarks available free of charge shake up the index licensing business?
Three’s Company: Platform Providers Get In On The Act
Some firms are seeing benefits in having core platform suppliers manage their data requests, rather than maintaining direct relationships with data vendors.
Getting to Know You-tility: The Emergence of Jurisdictional KYC Utilities
Regionally-governed utilities could help make up for slower-than-expected takeup of global KYC services.
Tackling Transparency: ESMA Eyes Ratings Opacity
ESMA plans to more closely supervise rating agencies' pricing policies, in response to what user firms say is a lack of transparency.
FX Feeds’ Sudden Evolutionary Leap
Firms' best execution requirements and desire to expand strategies into FX markets are creating demand for a new breed of high-performance FX datafeeds.
Thomson Reuters Consolidates Regulatory Feeds
The service will enable compliance teams to monitor regulatory alerts from over 750 regulatory bodies via a single feed.
Seaborn Preps Ultra-Low Latency NJ-Brazil Connectivity for 2017
Seaborn has already manufactured the cable for the project, and will lay it between the US and Brazil in Q1 2017.
Bloomberg Clients Hit By Terminal ‘Slowness'
Sources say the slowness impacted their ability to trade for the two-hour affected period.
TPI Data to Fuel Risk Modeling Alliance
Tullett Prebon's derivatives, credit and rates data will be used in a series of open-source risk analytics tools.
BlackRock Integrates ICE Continuous Pricing
Integrating CEP will provide additional transparency into fixed income markets for BlackRock clients.
Datawatch Adds Support for Streaming Data, Regulations, HTML5 in Latest Panopticon Release
The new features will support faster decision making, and make it easier for users to create new analytics.
GoldenSource Readies FRTB Risk Calculation Solution
GoldenSource is building on its data management competencies to develop new risk calculations and visualizations, as well as scenario analysis, to support FRTB requirements.
FTSE Russell Preps new ESG Indexes, Data Model
FTSE Russell has launched the new indexes in response to "growing demand" for underlying ESG parameters and for "smart sustainability" indexes.
Sapient Adds Support for Bank of Israel Reporting
Sapient's regulatory reporting platform now supports FX, index-linked and interest rate derivatives reporting to the Israeli central bank
Thomson Reuters Takes Stake in BestX to Support New TCA Partnership
BestX will use Thomson Reuters' FX data to power its analytics platform.
Silverfinch Adds Support for More Regulatory Reporting
Hub updates data model to support asset management reporting obligations across Europe
Singapore Central Bank Fines Firms for 1MDB-Related AML Breaches
The fines are part of ongoing efforts to unravel a litany of failures by firms associated with the 1Malaysia Development Bhd fund.
CJC Assembles MosaicOA Infrastructure Visualization Tool
The vendor enters the big data space with tool for visualizing IT Operations Analytics.
Chaikin Adds Charts, Alerts, News to Stock Analytics Platform
Officials say the new content and features will help investors make better trading decisions.
News Analytics Vendor Almax Taps Former Deutsche Bank, TR Exec Roth as Advisor
Roth will bring more than 20 years of experience as a consumer and provider of data to help commercialize Almax's offering.
BCCG Enlists Xinfinit for Data Platform-Terminal Combo
The two German vendors are partnering to develop a data platform and terminal package that will provide an alternative to legacy data platforms.
SocGen Taps Smartkarma to Meet MiFID 2 Unbundling Regs
The bank believes that by outsourcing the provision of research content, it can meet the unbundling requirements of MiFID 2.