Data
Flexibility Key to Infrastructure Agility, Responsiveness
Despite the economic environment dictating high-level sign-off on new technology deployments —- something that is becoming harder to obtain-— firms must build an element of flexibility into their market data infrastructures if they are to create best-of…
BT Seeks Vendor Collaboration on Collaboration Tools
Data vendors could leverage BT's existing connectivity and collaboration platform to make it easier to engage with clients and counterparties, the telecoms vendor says.
Regulatory Concerns For 2013
Next year promises to be a key time for clarifying regulations and figuring out just how they will affect and govern data management, especially Fatca
Identifier's Infancy
During a webinar about the legal entity identifier, panelists discussed the opportunities the code presents for data vendors to create new products and the immaturity of current offerings, writes Nicholas Hamilton
S&P Adds RatingsDirect Content to CapIQ
Combining the vendor's two content delivery mechanisms will allow users to access more data for credit analysis in a single location.
ModeFinance Readies Credit Risk Data Portal
Web portal will enable small and medium size firms to access basic credit risk reports of companies across Europe, and purchase more detailed data for a small fee
Mittiga Joins Wipro as Senior Advisor
Outsourcing service provider Wipro Technologies has hired Paolo Mittiga, a veteran industry technology executive, as senior domain advisor in New York
The Long Crawl to Basel III
Continued uncertainty about a phased compliance timeline for Basel III capital adequacy rules is likely to complicate data management for the foreseeable future, Michael Shashoua writes
Further Fatca Hurdles
With 12 months left to prepare reporting capabilities for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, entity classification is presenting serious challenges, and the effect of intergovernmental agreements has not become clear, writes Nicholas Hamilton
Ethernet Tech Vendor Emulex Buys Endace for Network Monitoring Play
Acquisition values Endace at $130 million, and is expected to close in early 2013
IRD's Editor on Cloud Computing and Data Management
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua identifies the factors in cloud computing data management decisions
HSBC Exec: "Regulations Require 10 New Data Types"
Chris Johnson of HSBC Securities Services has identified 10 new types of data that will be required by upcoming regulations and says firms must start asking vendors for the data so they will have business cases to create appropriate products
Tension on the Margins
Tom Davin, managing director of FISD, sees cause for concern in the reaction to cost pressures for data management operations, and tells Michael Shashoua that regulation could give certain data providers a leg up in some spaces
Behney Leaves UBS for DTCC
The DTCC has hired Christopher Behney to lead enterprise production assurance from its Dallas office. Behney previously headed technology infrastructure at UBS
