Emerging Technologies
Post Credit Crunch, Investors Eye New Ratings
With credit ratings taking a battering in the wake of the sub-prime crisis, investors are seeking additional inputs and ways to better rate the ratings themselves. By Audit Integrity chief executive Jack Zwingli, and chairman and founder James Kaplan
CESR to Weigh Rating Agencies' Responses
The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) last month published rating agencies' responses to a recent questionnaire that forms part of its probe into the role of agencies in rating structured finance securities, such as the sub-prime…
Innovation to Combat Fragmentation
Exchange Watch-Following a year of consolidation, exchanges face growing challenges from rival ECNs and their own customers, who are forming utility-style venues for traditional exchange functions such as trading and reporting.
Capacity, Identifiers, Piracy, Outsourcing
INDUSTRY ISSUES-The issues faced by the data industry during 2007 will make good preparations for another challenging year in 2008, say industry officials.
Financial Information Forum: Ask the Audience
Growing competition among trading venues for the grand prize of market share is expected to highlight capacity issues and symbology changes during 2008. By Jeff Wells, co-chair of the FIF Market Data Capacity Working Group, and vice president of product…
Trading Evolution Drives Tech Facelifts
Delivery Technologies-As trading becomes more automated and algorithmic, the relationship between market data and technology has become ever more tightly intertwined, and is driving greater focus on latency, new data inputs and struggling legacy…
FISD Outlines Industry Challenges for 2008
As the FISD and its members look forward to the challenges of 2008, two issues stand out for their importance and complexity-entity identification and data piracy and misuse. While seemingly unrelated, these two issues are united by a common thread:…
E-Trading Trends to Drive Outsourcing Shift
As firms deal with rising volumes of low-latency data, expect hosted services to become more prevalent in 2008. By Don Finucane, vice president of product management and OTC data services, Interactive Data Real-Time Services
Reuters Buys Gissing for Contributions Tech
Reuters has entered into an agreement to acquire UK-based market data contribution technology vendor Gissing Software, to update its own technology components for contributing data to Reuters' data infrastructure and network. The deal is expected to…
Ipreo Sells Hemscott Arm to Morningstar
Ipreo has sold its Hemscott fundamental data and investor relations Web development businesses to Morningstar, a research and data vendor focused on equities, mutual funds and other investment products for $51.6 million in cash.
Downto theCore
After five years as chief information officer of Swiss American Securities, Christian Hudson tells Inside Reference Data how he has managed to improve data management processes with a lean workforce. Reference data is at the core of the business, he says
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