Dow Jones has today gone live with a web-based version of its Dow Jones Investment Banker service. Called DJIBanker.com, the service has been designed primarily for mid-tier banks that want to access Dow Jones Investment Banker news, opinion, research and data visualisation from desktop or mobile devices.
Capital IQ’s acquisition of TheMarkets.com is intended, over the long term, to create a single data and information delivery platform that will compete head to head with services from competitors Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg and FactSet. In the short term, Capital IQ intends to maintain existing services for customers of both companies, while beginning to move TheMarkets.com research and estimates data to the Capital IQ platform.
A unified back office system with a centralised data management hub allows for the obvious benefits of global consistency of data, a reduction in operational costs (apart from the initial outlay) and the ability to meet risk management requirements, agreed panellists at SunGard’s City Day in London last week. Trevor Gatfield, head of securities operations at Investec, explained to attendees that his own firm operates with one trading system and one back office, which allows it high levels of STP, efficiency and the ability to deal with exceptions quickly. Fellow panellists from rather larger organisations Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and HSBC noted that even though they have not reached this level of integration, they are working towards a single view of data across their organisations.
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Electronic Trading, Low Latency and Market Data
Tradeweb’s derivatives launch; TSE’s new futures platform; developments in algo trading; Thomson Reuters’ launch of Eikon; CNSX taps Solace; Allston Trading builds platform based on Tervela technology.
Reference Data, Risk and Regulation IT
OTC Val’s win with CQS; developments in entity and instrument identification; Aim Software plans corporate actions launch; Commerzbank’s customer data integration; SocGen’s implementation of MetricStream; CRAMC selects Sophis.
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