RDR-Vendor Strategies & Solutions

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

Virginie’s Blog – A Roundup from Toronto: LEI, T2S, Standards, Standards, Standards…

Unsurprisingly given the host’s recent market positioning, the dominant theme at last week’s Swift user conference Sibos in Toronto was standards, in many different flavours. The one at the top of the list in terms of reference data, however, had to be the legal entity identifier (LEI) and there was certainly no shortage of discussions on the subject (see the list from my preview here). A total of three sessions were dedicated to the topic and the exhibition hall was abuzz with the potential that the LEI holds for the vendor community in terms of revenue generation.

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26 Sep 2011

SIX Telekurs White Paper & Recorded Webinar: Acceptable Price Variance

This webinar and white paper answers the question:
How much variance in evaluated pricing is acceptable?

Exchange-traded securities have the advantage of having a “price” reflecting the overall value investors place on future earnings, credit quality, management expertise and more. But more than half of all financial products today actually trade away from an exchange, including over-the-counter products and securities with no organized exchange for consummating day-to-day transactions. How do portfolio managers find reliable pricing information for those products? That’s where evaluated pricing comes into play.

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21 Jul 2011

IBM Pitches Financial Markets Framework; Pre-Integrates Hardware, Software for Trading, Risk and More …

With the recent launch of its Financial Markets Framework, IBM is positioning itself as a provider of pre-integrated solutions to trading and investment firms, leveraging its own portfolio of hardware and software offerings, and augmenting them with consulting expertise and partner products. The move follows a direction that the IT giant has already taken in verticals such as banking, insurance, and outside of financial services.

View the full article on Low-Latency.com

05 Aug 2010

Andrew’s Blog - High Performance and Transparency in Europe’s Exchange Sector

The autumn season of 2010 holds the promise of extreme exchange action in the European arena as all of the major incumbent exchanges proceed with major investments in their matching engine, data centre and connectivity infrastructures. Clearly, this has all come in response to the arrival of a glut of multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) since the launch of the most successful of them – Chi-X Europe – back in mid-2007.

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28 Jul 2010

Andrew’s Bordeaux Blog - Extending the Tentacles

Actually, I used Bordeaux to get your attention. I write this blog from rural Perigord – the village of Bourdeilles, to be exact – which sits close to some wine appellations that are regarded as Bordeaux, like St. Emilion and Pomerol.

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07 Apr 2010

Markit Adds Liquidity Scores for Fixed Income Markets

Markit Group has introduced liquidity metrics and scores that indicate levels of liquidity for fixed income securities. Services will initially cover individual instruments, but the company is promising a comprehensive package that will give market participants a view of liquidity across all fixed income markets.

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06 Apr 2010

Demand for Data Management Driven by Risk and Regulation

Bloomberg Opens its Data Distribution Technology

Exchange Data's Closing Prices Handbook

SIX Exfeed and Derivative Partners Intensify Cooperation on Structured Products Data

Rainier Investment Management Live on Charles River Data Service

EDI Collaborate with 1View Solutions to Publish Comprehensive Reference Data

MarkitSERV Starts Trade Date Feed to Global Repository for Interest Rate Derivatives

Thomson Reuters Launches Fixed Income Global Snapshot to Provide Greater Transparency and Flexibility to Investors

Interactive Data Expands Relationship With FactSet Research Systems

Industry White Paper Urges Firms to Outsource Corporate Actions Validation Function

Euclid Opportunities Invests in Model Two Zero

CITIC Bank International Selects Pricing Partners for Structured Products Portfolio Pricing

Markit Adds Sensitvities Data to CDS Pricing

Roderick Manzie Joins 3d Innovations as COO to Further the Data Management Consultancy’s Growth

T2S Connectivity Licences

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