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Industry Set to Battle Patents via Courts, Rewrites, M&A
Companies are turning their attention from the IP in their content to the IP in their content delivery mechanisms, prompting firms fearful of litigation to ditch incumbent technologies and demand contracts that indemnify them against infringement.
Divining Downstream Data Flows
Data managers are considering how to best and most accurately handle distribution of varied types of reference data. Michael Shashoua heard from financial firms and their providers on the challenges they are seeing and what course they are taking
Data Principles Important But Elusive
A firm-wide set of data management principles—such as a single version of the truth, as one audience member at the Buy-Side Technology North American Summit put it—are difficult to formulate in siloed environments, and when different business units…
Bloomberg Launches US Equities Trading Platform
Bloomberg has opened Bloomberg Pool, or BPool, a new US equity pool.
Limitations and Horizons
Michael Shashoua speaks with Peter Warms, head of open symbology at Bloomberg, about the prospects of the legal entity identifier and its implementation in the next year
Transparent Demands
Data management strategies and provider choices are a prime concern for firms trying to achieve transparency in their pricing data, at regulators’ urging. Michael Shashoua looks for where the work will need to occur in the industry
Lacrosse Derives Benefit From Outside Pricing Services
The fund services company implemented Markit services and Bloomberg's BVAL, and now offers its clients more authoritative data as a result.
Enterprising Strategies
Data vendors are showing increasing interest in enterprise data management, but insist they will not bundle products. Nicholas Hamilton finds there are many potential benefits to be had
Waters Rankings' Best Sell-Side OMS: Bloomberg TOMS
1. Bloomberg TOMS 40.1% 2. SunGard 19.5% 3. Fidessa 12.5%
Vodafone to Manage FX with Bloomberg
Company to use FXGO platform for foreign exchange risk management.
Open Season For Instrument Codes?
Proprietary instrument codes, while now more open to outside users, may not become as standardized as the legal entity identifier - or will they? Some uncertainty is now in the mix for the LEI with a loosening of its federated administration model
Bloomberg Broadens Data Focus with Industries
Global roll-out of analysis and data platform provides power play for vendor.