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Corporate Actions Varieties Increase
More Variations Create Processing Complications
Vendors Prep for SSE–HK Stock Connect
Thomson Reuter, Bloomberg both create data pages to display Shanghai-Hong Kong data, despite delay to link's go-live
Corporate Actions: Breaking Down the Building Blocks -- Webcast
On October 29, Inside Reference Data hosted a webcast concerning the issues at each stage of the corporate actions processing lifecycle, and the standards concerns for corporate actions
Solvency II: Getting Ready For 2016 -- Webcast
On November 6, Inside Reference Data hosted a webcast about readiness for the deadline to comply with Solvency II capital adequacy regulation
BI-SAM Names Ex-Thomson Vet Haney CEO
Former Thomson exec will complete transition from COO to CEO in January
APFIC 2014: Regulation, Flexibility, Legacy Upgrades Drive Managed Services
Regulation and flexibility are the key drivers for the uptake in managed services globally according to a panel of managed services providers, at this week's Asia Pacific Financial Information Conference in Hong Kong.
MDX Tech Unveils Server Contribution Platform
UK-based MDX Technology, a provider of Microsoft Excel add-ins for real-time data publishing and distribution, has launched MDXT Contribute, a new server-based multi-vendor contributions system, as part of ongoing efforts to reposition itself as a…
Thomson Reuters Moves Users to New ‘Last Mile’ Comms
Thomson Reuters is migrating customers to a new “last-mile” communications infrastructure, dubbed Thomson Reuters Delivery Direct, to provide more choice over how market data is delivered to customer sites from the vendor’s local points of presence.
KYC: Know Your Choices
Know-your-customer (KYC) requirements, hardly a bank’s most value-added function, have become a popular topic among operations, compliance, and reference data professionals, with a growing consensus that KYC checks can be done cheaper and more…
Tradeweb Europe Takes Thomson Reuters' KYC Service
The electronic trading venue's European arm has chosen Thomson Reuters' Accelus Org ID to complement its existing know-your-customer (KYC) due diligence processes.
Charles River Adds Thomson Reuters Data
Thomson Reuters follows other major data providers in making its information available through Charles River
Thomson Reuters Bows M&A Arbitrage Data
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a new collection of mergers and acquisitions data within its Deals database targeting the needs of event-driven hedge fund managers.
Bloomberg to Carry U.Michigan Consumer Data from 2015
Bloomberg will begin distributing consumer sentiment index data created by the University of Michigan from January 2015, in a non-exclusive partnership that runs until 2019, with provisions to extend the deal longer.
Thomson Reuters Preps 2015 Fee Hikes
Thomson Reuters is to raise prices for certain data products and services by up to 10 percent, effective Jan. 1, 2015, especially for legacy products and services and for contracts agreed at a discount to the current list price, Inside Market Data has…
Russian Sanctions Create Identifier Issues
Tracking US and EU sanctions of Russian entities extends to around 7,500 subsidiaries and affiliate relationships—and any debt or equities issues from them—leading to more demand to manage identifier data, says a Thomson Reuters regulation specialist
Rimes to Include Thomson Reuters' Indices in Rimes BDS
Rimes will add several equity and fixed income indices from Thomson Reuters on its Rimes Benchmark Data Service (Rimes BDS) in order to expand its database and meet the growing demands from the buy side for more data.
Rimes Adds Thomson Reuters Indexes to BDS
Economic and benchmark data provider Rimes Technologies has added support for Thomson Reuters' equity and fixed income indexes to its Rimes Benchmark Data Service to meet demand for diverse index data from buy-side clients.
Fitch Hires Ex-Thomson Reuters' Mattinson to Grow Biz
Fitch Solutions, the data vendor arm of ratings agency Fitch, has hired Ian Mattinson as head of product delivery and execution, responsible for accelerating the growth of the vendor's business and delivering new products to market.
Updata Integrates Eikon, Datastream Data
UK-based technical analysis software provider Updata has integrated data from Thomson Reuters’ real-time Eikon terminal and Datastream economic research tool into its Professional analytics workstation, to enable customers to carry out advanced analytics…
Opening Cross: In Data, as in Baseball, a Great Captain Unites His Team
Whether you’re a Yankee or Red Sox supporter, you have to take your hat off to Yankees captain Derek Jeter: in his last game at Yankee Stadium, he not only made a respectful exit in front of a sold-out crowd of home fans, but also saved the day with a…
Thomson Reuters Integrates Markit Directory into Eikon Messenger
Thomson Reuters has integrated the Markit Directory "phone book" component of Markit's Collaboration Services messaging platform into its Eikon Messenger chat tool, as part of an ongoing industry project to build an open messaging network for financial…
FX Manipulation Targeted with b-next Release
Surveillance vendor b-next has announced the release of a tool for its Capital Market Compliance (CMC) offering, aimed at detected suspicious trading activity around the foreign exchange (FX) fix.
Allianz Allies with Thomson Reuters for Bond Pricing
German banking and insurance giant Allianz is to use Thomson Reuters' independent pricing service to meet the firm's fixed income pricing data needs around valuation and meeting international accounting standards.
Allianz Taps TR For Fixed Income Pricing
The global insurance and asset management giant says it will use Thomson Reuters Pricing Service (TPRS), covering 2.5 million fixed income securities, derivatives, and bank loans, to meet valuation, reporting and regulatory requirements.