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The Interview: Telekurs’ Beat Koch
On the growing recognition of the Swiss vendor’s role as a global reference data provider Mention Telekurs to people of a certain age in the London financial technology business and you’ll quite often find that they have a picture of a second division player in the real-time market data industry. Either that, or the words…
DTCC Throws Its Weight Behind Corporate Actions Processing
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) launch of its Global Corporate Action (GCA) validation service at the beginning of the month will “reinvent the way corporate action announcements are managed” through the elimination of redundant operations and technology. The development of the service could, if widely adopted, spell bad news for some of the…
Calling All Data Feeds…
Dutch data management specialist Asset Control has ambitious plans to integrate the complete set of reference datafeeds into a single industry utility, chief executive Ger Rosenkamp explains. When Asset Control announced at the end of last month that it had mapped and normalised Telekurs Financial’s Valordata Feed (VDF) to its AC Plus system and ACDEX…
London Stock Exchange Unveils Draft Pricing For Enhanced SMF
The London Stock Exchange has published a draft licensing and pricing policy for its enhanced Sedol Masterfile (SMF) service, to be introduced next year. The new proposals provide for a one-off enterprise licence priced at £50,000 a year, which will be cost-effective for a firm with four or more subsidiaries using greater than 10,000 Sedol…
Business As Usual In The Numbers Game
Tony Kirby may no longer work at Reuters, but he’s still secretary of the Reference Data User Group. In a month of turmoil, he spoke to Reference Data Review about the group’s activities and ongoing relations with its counterparts. Tony Kirby is in danger of becoming a professional financial technology evangelist. A few years ago,…
Big Fish Jumps from Surprisingly Large Pond
The first few months in the life of a new publication are, understandably, fraught times for the perpetrators. Like cinema or theatre, there is a balance of business and creative activity to be achieved, and you can be successful in neither, either or both. We feel optimistic about which of those Reference Data Review is…
FTI Bonds With m.a. partners
New York-based vendor Financial Technologies International (FTI) has formed a partnership with m.a partners, a London-based management consultancy, for consultancy and systems integration expertise. The partnership is intended to create a ‘best of breed’ partnership for the provision and delivery of streamlined processes and increased efficiencies for back-office operations, the pair say. They are already…
Welcome to our inaugural issue of Reference Data Review
We’re pleased to announce the launch of Reference Data Review, the first subscription publication to focus specifically on the fast-growing reference data industry. While many industry observers are examining the efforts driving the finan-cial services industry towards Straight Through Processing (STP), the crucial data element is often overlooked. But, as the industry is becoming increasingly…