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S&P Cap IQ, Kuberre Launch Event Fusion Real-Time Alerting
S&P Capital IQ, the data arm of McGraw Hill Financial, and Andover, Mass.-based financial technology provider Kuberre Systems will launch a new cloud-based platform, dubbed Event Fusion, today, Sept. 30, which provides real-time alerts on news and…
S&P Boss Eccleston Resurfaces as TMX CEO
Canadian exchange group TMX has appointed former S&P and Bloomberg exec Lou Eccleston as chief executive, effective Nov. 3, replacing Thomas Kloet, who announced his retirement earlier this year.
Estimize Taps Former S&P Research Director for PR, Research
New York-based crowd-sourced earnings estimates provider Estimize has appointed Christine Short──former director of earnings research at S&P Capital IQ──vice president of media and public relations, with additional responsibility for content generation,…
Big-Time Data Terminology
Larger-than-life terms aren't necessarily the best way to describe data management issues. As an S&P data strategist points to integration and scalability concerns, IRD's editor writes that quality and consistency are really what it's all about
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Data Analytics Provider — S&P Capital IQ
Created in 2010 from the merger of the research, analytic and strategic capabilities of Standard & Poor’s and Capital IQ, S&P Capital IQ has established itself to such an extent in its relatively short life that this year it becomes the first ever…
Eccleston Departs S&P Capital IQ
Lou Eccleston, president of S&P Capital IQ and chairman of the board of S&P Dow Jones Indices, left the companies' parent group, McGraw-Hill Financial, on Monday, July 14.
Transparency Becomes Greater Concern In Evaluated Pricing
In a June 4 webcast about transparent pricing, experts in the field explained the different types of information vendors are being asked to provide for due diligence, accounting disclosures and daily price challenges, writes Nicholas Hamilton
Opening Cross: Forget ‘Keep it Simple, Stupid.’ Think KIDD—’Keep it Diversified, Dummy"
The market data business is increasingly governed by the need to diversify to respond to market and investment trends. Trading firms seeking exposure to new opportunities diversify the datasets they consume in search of the one that will give them an…
Markit Eyes Federated Chat Integration Capabilities
Markit is building out the integration services component of its Collaboration Services initiative, an open messaging network for financial professionals to communicate and share information across any messaging platform.
S&P Cap IQ Eyes LatAm, ASEAN Third-Party Research Expansion
S&P Capital IQ is increasing its coverage of research and estimates data on companies in Latin America and Asia Pacific, as part of an ongoing project to build out the vendor's global network of third-party investment research providers and consumers.
Opening Cross: Make the Right Entrance and You Won’t Need a Graceful Exit
The ability to make a graceful exit is a talent I don’t have: ask anyone who’s participated in a fire drill with me. Nor, it seems, does the annual SIFMA technology exhibition, which straggles doggedly on this week, despite a much smaller exhibitor list…
S&P Cap IQ Joins Markit Collaboration Services Network
McGraw Hill Financial-owned S&P Capital IQ has become the latest vendor to join Markit Collaboration Services, the open messaging network initiative that allows financial professionals to communicate and share information across communication platforms.
Transparent Pricing for Accounting Disclosures, Due Diligence, Price Challenges -- Webcast
On June 4, Inside Reference Data hosted a webcast about delivering transparent pricing, during which four industry experts discussed due diligence requirements, the impact of accounting standards and the daily price challenge process
Stress Tests, Data Aggregation Get Bigger Parts in Risk Management
Risk data aggregation efforts are pulling in more sources of data and more functions and tasks, such as stress testing. Michael Shashoua reports
IMD Awards Show Increasingly Competitive Vendor Landscape; Bloomberg Leads with Five Wins
Bloomberg scooped five categories at the Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards on the evening of Wednesday, May 21, though the battle for second and third place in the tally was more competitive, with several vendors winning multiple awards.
S&P Cap IQ Adds VC Experts, Santander to Research
McGraw Hill Financial-owned S&P Capital IQ has made research and analysis provider VC Experts' strategic analysis of private market investment data and regulatory filings for private market financings, as well as Latin American research from Banco…
S&P CapIQ Taps Fitch's Smith to Head New Credit Data-Ratings Biz
S&P Capital IQ has created a new business area, dubbed S&P Credit Solutions, that combines the vendor's analytics, research and data with ratings data from Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, and has hired former Fitch exec Neil Smith to lead the new…
Adopting principles for effective risk data aggregation and internal risk reporting practices -- Webcast
On May 15, Inside Reference Data hosted a webcast about risk data aggregation and internal reporting practices, in which four experts in the field discussed the role of regulatory requirements and challenges for data management
BCBS 239 Wasn't The Start of Risk Data Aggregation
Experienced data executives consider whether BCBS 239 risk data aggregation guidelines have an unrealistic deadline or are behind what the industry already has ready for compliance
S&P Cap IQ Adds Numerix Pricing Models
S&P Capital IQ has incorporated pricing models from derivatives analytics, valuation and risk management software vendor Numerix into its Portfolio Risk solution, building on an existing multi-year agreement between Numerix and R2 Financial Technologies,…
Numerix, S&P Cap IQ Ink Pricing Partnership
S&P Capital IQ and Numerix have announced a multi-year partnership that will see the former's pricing models integrated within the latter's Portfolio Risk platform.
S&P Cap IQ Boosts Content Acquisition, Partners Unit
McGraw-Hill Financial's S&P Capital IQ division has made three senior hires to its Content Acquisition and Strategic Alliances (CASA) unit, to strengthen the team as the vendor prepares to expand its function to include oversight of content acquisition…
S&P Cap IQ Adds TMX Data Connectivity
S&P Capital IQ's Real-Time Solutions division (formerly QuantHouse) has begun making market data from Canada's TMX Group available via its QuantFeed low-latency consolidated datafeed and its QuantLink trading infrastructure.
S&P Real-Time Debuts FPGA OPRA Feed
The Real-Time Solutions division of S&P Capital IQ (formerly QuantHouse, prior to its acquisition by S&P in 2012) has unveiled QuantFeed FPGA for OPRA, a hardware-accelerated version of its consolidated datafeed that delivers additional processing power…