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Sorensen Joins Portware's FX Team
New hire will focus on execution and automate tools for tier-one global asset management firms.
Portware Expands Global Foreign Exchange Team
FactSet company hires Chris Sorensen
Data Disruption?
Could MiFIR disrupt the commercial models of reference data vendors?
Opening Cross: Choose Your Partners for the ‘Year of the Ecosystem’
Choose wisely: The right partner can make or break your business.
FactSet Adds Evaluated Muni Prices from Startup Best Credit Data
The new data will provide FactSet clients with an alternative source of insight into the illiquid muni bonds market.
Michael Shashoua: Question Time for Mifid II Opponents
The industry’s likely successful effort to postpone Mifid II’s compliance deadline by a year to January 2018 is only a temporary salve for a lack of effort on straightening out data management, which could have made the lobbying unnecessary, Michael…
IRD's Editor on Data Processing Transformation
Data processing challenges can be met by finding common traits in data, whether in corporate actions, evaluated pricing or otherwise
Data Management and Governance Seeing Processing Transformations
New platforms and approaches in evidence, for regulatory compliance and trading operations support
Consider the Hub and Spoke
The industry's lack of common symbology is creating huge headaches
The Regulatory Reporting System Question: Retrofit or Greenfield?
Frankfurt event panel debates both options' value for compliance and meeting deadlines
Frankfurt Regulation Roadshow Panel: Retro-fit vs. Greenfield Regulatory Reporting Systems
Panelists debate different approaches to regulatory reporting in order to maintain compliance and to meet regulatory deadlines.
Buy-Side to Benefit by FactSet’s Portware Acquisition
Existing buy-side clients set to benefit by acquisition due to FactSet's extended reach, larger headcount, and data assets.
FactSet Begins Carrying Trendrating Momentum Reports
The Trendrating reports will be available to buy-side cleints of FactSet's Research Connect service.
VWD Taps FactSet, Thomson Vet Gijssel for CEO
Gijssel spent 18 years at FactSet, preceded by eight years at Thomson Financial.
Thomson Reuters Leads IMD/IRD Awards Tally as Race Tightens Between Bloomberg, Interactive Data
The results demonstrate an increasingly competitive landscape among the leading data vendors.
Opening Cross: Coopetition: Exposing You to a Bigger Audience, Or Just Leaving You Exposed?
Keep your friends close, and your partners closer.
FactSet Incorporates RavenPack Sentiment Indicators to Meet Buy-Side Demand
The RavenPack scores will provide FactSet clients with sentiment scores and abnormal sentiment.
Burton-Taylor: Data Spend Grows 4% in 2014; FactSet Overtakes Interactive Data
New report ranks top data vendors' market share by revenue.
FactSet Acquires Code Red
The deal will complete the vendor's research management offering
Regulation: The Driving Force Behind a Financial Overhaul
Factset's King argues that research management systems can provide audit trails for regulatory compliance.
FactSet Names Bloomberg's Miller Sales Head
FactSet Research Systems has appointed former Bloomberg exec Scott Miller executive vice president and global director of sales, replacing Michael Frankenfield, who the vendor has named vice chairman, and who will hold a senior sales advisory role.
FactSet Announces Fixed Income Ownership Data Feed
Product Helps Identify Owners of an Entity's Debt and Equity Issues
FactSet Adds Markit Global ETF Data to Workstation in Buy-Side Push
FactSet Research Systems has integrated data on more than 5,000 global exchange-traded funds from data vendor Markit into its workstation, to provide clients—particularly buy-side firms—with fund-level and constituent-level data on ETFs to inform their…
Opening Cross: Do You Think of Data as a Grgich or a Gato Negro?
The other day, I was chatting with the owner of my local coffee shop about different types of coffees. He prefers African beans, lightly roasted, with bright, fruity flavors, whereas I prefer South American or Indonesian beans, roasted to within an inch…