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Out With The Old, in With The New
Stories covering AIFMD, IFRS 13, phase-out of old data management processes, JP Morgan's data restructuring and possible open source LEI all point to key changes that have happened in the past month for the industry
IFRS 13 Driving Level 3 Coding Work
End users are figuring out how to determine levels for quotes and code accounting data
Thomson Reuters Launches Fatca Product
The data vendor is helping clients comply with US anti-tax evasion regulations by supplying modules for client onboarding, self-assessment and reporting
CTI, Markit Launch Fatca Compliance Tool
Compliance Technologies International (CTI) and Markit have launched Fatca Service Bureau to help financial institutions with compliance to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca), which came into force at the start of the year.
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Overall Buy-Side Technology Provider for 2012─Markit
The recipient of this final award of the annual Buy-Side Technology Awards is traditionally decided by Waters’ two editors—Victor Anderson and Anthony Malakian. The past four years set something of a precedent: The winners— Linedata Services in 2008,…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Pricing/Valuations Service─Markit
Pricing is Markit’s bread and butter─it always has been, and, unless CEO Lance Uggla and his management team make a dramatic directional change to the vendor─which boasts a headcount of 2,500—it always will be. Markit’s pricing strategy, which covers…
Buy-Side Technology Awards: Best Buy-Side Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) Tool─Markit
Given the importance that transaction-cost analysis (TCA) functions play across the buy side in terms of providing firms with a consistent, repeatable and disciplined approach to assessing the slippage affecting their orders, it was only a matter of time…
Markit Debuts Equities Fair Value Pricing
Equities coverage expands existing fixed income pricing service
EFIS 2012: Managing Desktop Spend Still a Challenge, Panel Says
Panelists address the difficulties of cutting spend without also cutting functionality
Markit To Distribute Euroclear Bond Data
The data provider expects to begin distributing Euroclear's Eurobond reference data at the end of this year or in early 2013
Friends Life Chooses Markit For Short Launch Deadline
The asset management firm believes that the light IT requirements and agility of Markit Enterprise Data Management's platform will enable the firm to achieve its growth ambitions
Who Should Pay for the New TCA?
When it came time to announce who will bear the cost of next-generation transaction cost analysis (TCA), the experts had more than one suggestion.
Markit EDM Platform Underpins Friends Life’s Growth Strategy
Friends Life Investments, the London-based, recently established asset management arm of the Friends Life Group, which launched in July this year with approximately £6 billion under management, is live on the Markit Enterprise Data Management (EDM)…
The Onboarding Conundrum
Client onboarding is often a cumbersome process, but market practitioners believe it could be streamlined if firms enable their customers to upload and maintain their own data. The catch, Nicholas Hamilton finds, is that strict controls could be needed…