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Category: Reference Data ReviewOn 16 May 2008 in RDR-Industry Identifier, Reference Data Review 
Markit has appointed Charles Longden as managing director in Fixed Income and Credit. Longden joins Markit from ABN AMRO where he worked for 12 years, most recently as global head of credit trading and eco-markets. He was the chief architect of the iBoxx CDS Notes, the forerunner of the iTraxx CDS indices which Markit now owns.
On 14 May 2008 in RDR-Corporate Actions, Reference Data Review
Interactive Data has launched its class actions service mapped to the ISO 15022 format as an optional module of FTS, Interactive Data’s securities administration tool. The service is part of the vendor’s Pricing and Reference Data business and is designed to help institutions track, monitor and recover funds resulting from securities class action litigation
On 14 May 2008 in RDR-Events, RDR-Your View, Reference Data Review
A-Team Group and EDM specialist Goldensource are joining forces to debate the issues surrounding the derivatives data deluge next week at 11am EST on May 20th in a free live webcast, Derivatives: The Eye of the Data Storm.
On 14 May 2008 in A-Team Free, Delivery Terms, RDR-Entity Identifiers, RDR-Industry Initiatives, Reference Data Review 
Broadening the adoption of a standard identifier for business entities, Telekurs Financial has implemented the International Business Entity Identifier (IBEI) codes for its Valordata Feed (VDF) and its financial display Telekurs iD. The vendor has been working on this implementation since June 2007 in order to allow European customers to identify participants in the processing chain of cross-border securities trading via IBEI codes.
On 14 May 2008 in RDR-Regulation and Compliance, Reference Data Review
Christopher Cox, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman, is expected to release recommendations this week about how US companies can adopt extensible business reporting language (XBRL) for their financial reporting. This follows the SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting’s report, released in February, which recommended that companies should use XBRL to tag their financial data.
On 14 May 2008 in RDR-Enterprise Data Management, RDR-Industry Identifier, Reference Data Review
Data management consultancy LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV) and data integration vendor ReferenceDataFactory (RDF) have merged to form EDM specialist firm LakeFrontData. LDV founder and former SunGard EDM man Dale Richards has become president and CEO of the new company and fellow colleagues and ex-SunGard veterans Marc Odho and Rob Ord have been appointed head of professional services and head of market development and accounts, respectively.
On 10 May 2008 in RDR-The Corporation, Reference Data Review
Broadridge Financial Solutions has reported a 29.6 per cent decrease in third quarter net earnings on the previous fiscal year. However, net revenues for the same quarter, ending 31 March 2008, have grown by 1.2 per cent on last year’s figures to $498.8 million.
On 08 May 2008 in RDR-Counterparty Data, RDR-Regulation and Compliance, Reference Data Review
Data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing vendor Markit has launched a new documentation library that allows financial institutions to post, manage and share compliance, counterparty credit and regulatory documents securely.
On 08 May 2008 in RDR-Data Services, Reference Data Review
Securities data vendor DPC Data has relaunched its MuniFilings online document store, integrating Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board trade data into the website and adding a faster search engine.
On 08 May 2008 in RDR-Data Services, RDR-The Corporation, Reference Data Review
Bloomberg has certified Charles River Development’s integration with the Bloomberg Server API. Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS) clients can access Bloomberg’s real-time pricing and static reference data, with full control over exchange/contributor permissioning, directly within Charles River IMS.
On 08 May 2008 in RDR-Industry Identifier, Reference Data Review
Moody’s Investors Service, the credit rating agency unit of Moody’s Corporation, has appointed Michel Madelain, currently executive vice president in charge of the Global Fundamental Ratings business, as chief operating officer with overall responsibility for managing the day-to-day operations of the ratings business.
On 07 May 2008 in RDR-Data Services, RDR-Enterprise Data Management, Reference Data Review
Eagle Investment Systems is planning a new release of its software aimed at improving workflow and usability in its data management offering. Eagle Version 9.0, details of which were presented at its annual client conference in Florida this week, will be available later this month.
On 07 May 2008 in RDR-Corporate Actions, RDR-News in Brief, Reference Data Review
XSP has achieved gold certified partner status, the highest level of competence, in Microsoft’s Partner Program. The corporate actions vendor became a Microsoft certified partner at the end of September last year and has now progressed to gold status.
On 07 May 2008 in RDR-Evaluated Prices, Reference Data Review
Interactive Data has widened the distribution of its bond evaluations through a deal with Deutsche Börse, which will be making the data available to financial institutions in Germany.
On 07 May 2008 in A-Team Free, Delivery Terms, RDR-Industry Identifier, RDR-The Corporation, Reference Data Review
GoldenSource, a provider of enterprise data management (EDM) solutions, has reported strong sales of its solutions in London, Brussels, New York and Toronto during the first quarter of 2008. Across all of its market segments, the company reported five new contract wins with an expanding customer base and one significant upgrade with an existing client.
On 01 May 2008 in RDR-Industry Identifier, Reference Data Review
Shaun Hassett has joined Cicada’s business development team as vice president of business development. He will be responsible for developing and expanding the company’s Cicada Profiler software business.
On 01 May 2008 in RDR-Corporate Actions, Reference Data Review
Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data’s intra-day corporate actions data is now available through XSP’s software platform. The service covers more than 40 corporate actions event types, including mergers, tender offers, exchanges and rights offerings for US and Canadian listed/traded securities.
On 29 Apr 2008 in RDR-Data Services, Reference Data Review
Eagle Investment Systems and Thomson Reuters have created a standard interface between Eagle’s data management solution and Thomson Reuters DataScope Select. The new standard interface allows clients to import DataScope Select security data into Eagle’s data management platform; both equity and fixed income securities are supported.
On 29 Apr 2008 in RDR-Client Implementations, Reference Data Review
Liverpool Victoria Asset Management (LVAM) has signed a deal to implement Cadis Software’s EDM Suite. Due to go live in less than three months, Cadis will serve as the backbone of LVAM’s new technology infrastructure and play an instrumental role in the company’s growth strategy, according to the vendor.
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Reference Data Review - Issue 63 - April 2008 (1.3 MB)
