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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
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.
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.
OpenGamma, Risk Focus Partner on Risk Management Distribution
Software provider OpenGamma and consultancy Risk Focus will distribute real-time risk management services that support customized systems for users.
Pre-LEI Portal Launches Data Sets
P-lei.org, a legal entity identifier consortium launched in June, has begun making pre-LEI data available daily, notably for the US, Germany and France
DTCC To Integrate Services From Full Ownership Of Omgeo
Post-trade processing services provider DTCC says buying out Thomson Reuters' half ownership stake in Omgeo will promote DTCC's expansion, through Omgeo's 6,500 clients and 80 technology partners in 52 countries
Data Quality, Usage Issues Increasing, Survey Finds
Data quality is lacking and usage fees for data management tools are becoming more prominent areas of concern for the financial services industry, concludes a Deloitte report based on surveys of financial services professionals and additional research
Volante Hires Senior Sales Staff and Engineers
The vendor of data integration technology has hired a new director of North American sales, a commercial director for Latin America and a new member of its London sales team, as well as 20 new engineers
GoldenSource Appoints Sales Manager for Germanic and Nordic Countries
Bettina Engelen has taken responsibility for increasing the enterprise data management software vendor's sales in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Nordic countries
Wolters Kluwer to Expand Austrian Offering with Acquisition of Reporting Specialist
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services is to acquire Svenson, an Austrian vendor of regulatory reporting software, from its current parent company, SmartStream
ISO 20022 Likely Stalled For Years More, Say Corporate Actions Execs
Efforts to phase out the use of the older ISO 15022 standard for corporate actions messaging on a worldwide basis are still failing to gain traction in the industry, executives from BlackRock and Barclays Capital said in a recent webcast
OFR's Reed Outlines Work on LEI Interim System and Foundation
The chair of the Regulatory Oversight Committee says the interim system will mean pre-legal entity identifiers from any pre-local operating unit will be accepted by regulators around the world and reveals that "all material decisions" about the LEI…
LSE Reveals Details of Pre-LOU to Be Launched on July 31
The London Stock Exchange is preparing to launch its pre-legal entity identifier (pre-LEI) utility which will include a flexible search engine and the ability to view the records of pre-LEIs issued by other organizations
S&P Capital IQ Displays Gov, Corp Bond Data Beside Evaluations
The pricing and data vendor has enhanced the transparency of its evaluated prices by displaying input data, including 2,000 daily government bond quotes in 37 currencies, on its valuations platform
S&P Capital IQ to Redistribute Tullett Data Via Feeds and APIs
The pricing and data provider, which uses data from Tullett Prebon Information for its securities valuations and pricing business, will now also distribute a wide variety of the company's data via desktops, mobile applications, application programming…
US Postpones Fatca Deadlines, Citing Need For International Agreements
Due diligence and tax withholding requirements of the US anti-tax evasion regulation have been postponed until July 1, 2014 to allow time for more countries to sign intergovernmental agreements with the US Treasury
AIM Upgrade Boosts Clearstream Pricing Capabilities
An upgrade to the data management platform used by Clearstream International to centralize pricing and ratings data will enable the vendor of clearing and settlement services to price more than 700,000 records in the less than 20 minutes
Omgeo Interface Automates Trade Matching For Eze Users
A new link to Omgeo's trade matching system means users of Eze Software Group's order management system will not need to build separate connections to each of their brokers
Toronto FIS Live: Economic Outlook For US and Canada
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua reported live via Twitter on the address by John Clinkard, chief economist at Deutsche Bank Canada, at the Toronto Financial Information Summit on July 10
Aegon Chooses Markit EDM for US, Dutch Operations
The asset management firm will use the Markit Enterprise Data Management platform to create data hubs in the US and the Netherlands, as well as the UK, allowing data to be consolidated globally
Toronto FIS Live: Executing Successful Data Strategy
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua reported live via Twitter from the morning keynote of the Toronto Financial Information Summit on July 10.
Information Mosaic Names Chief Revenue Officer
Philip Hogan, most recently an Asia-Pacific executive at DST, joins the company in a newly created role