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Andrew’s Blog – Bloomberg Ups the Open Ante

For those of you who have viewed Bloomberg’s moves towards openness to date with a sceptical eye, today’s announcement that it is making its Bloomberg API available to all – free of cost or restrictions – may force a rethink.

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01 Feb 2012
 
Andrew’s Blog – Let’s Try Again for a European Consolidated Tape

Before there was Turquoise, there was Boat. And Boat, you’ll recall, was the industry’s answer to the then-incoming regulation designed to ensure that pan-European equity trades were reported to a mechanism available to all in a standardized way. This was required because Europe’s markets were about to fragment, due to the introduction of multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) and the disassembling of the prior (anticompetitive) practice of reporting trades through domestic exchanges.

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25 Jan 2012
 
Andrew’s Blog – The OTC Derivatives Case for LEIs

Hot on the heels of the Financial Stability Board’s creation of expert panels to advise on the development of legal entity identifiers (LEI) (see more here), international regulators IOSCO and the Bank for International Settlements this week weighed in to stress the importance of LEIs to the ongoing efforts to boost transparency in the OTC derivatives marketplace.

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19 Jan 2012
 
White Paper: Outsourced Corporate Actions Validation

Industry leading financial institutions are reaping operational benefits and avoiding significant unnecessary financial exposures by ensuring the quality and the timeliness of their corporate actions data. As well as minimising costs from operational disruption caused by incorrect or incomplete data, these firms are able to reduce the risk of litigation and compensation claims arising from corporate actions errors, allowing them to save on the capital they set aside to mitigate these risks and avoid reputational harm. In many cases, the amounts involved are measured in the millions, of pounds, euros or dollars.

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17 Jan 2012
 
Andrew’s Blog – RICs as Catalyst for Financial Markets ‘App Store’

High on the long, long list of the late Steve Jobs’ acts of genius was his decision to go against his own instinct and open up the iPhone/iPAD to third-party developers to create the App Store, a true game-changer. That got me to thinking that Thomson Reuters and the EU could be missing a trick with their ongoing correspondence about for extending access to the Reuters Instrument Code (RIC) [see more here].

Rather than focusing on a withering segment of the marketplace – consolidated data feeds – what if Thomson Reuters went the whole hog and opened up RICs to everyone? And then encouraged everyone to develop and market their own applications through the ‘RIC Store’, using RICs to access the data required? Drawing on its 4,000+ list of client developers, the result would be a trading and investment application marketplace. Hedgehogs.net on steroids. Tantalising.

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11 Jan 2012
 
Andrew’s Blog – Those Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk Appointments in Full

Before we were rudely interrupted by the Christmas holidays – lovely, thanks, and you? – we were speculating about the emerging structure and population of the executive ranks within president David Craig’s new Financial & Risk operating unit of Thomson Reuters, in essence the successor to the former Thomson Reuters Markets. At least some dust has settled since Craig’s December 19 publication of an organisation chart for his group, so we are able to offer some of the highlights.

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05 Jan 2012
 

 
 

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