Euromoney TRADEDATA integrates EDI’s DerivActions feed to launch a leading-edge futures and options corporate actions service

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London, UK – 28th September 2021

Euromoney TRADEDATA is pleased to announce the launch of a new corporate actions service for the futures and options industry, through a strategic partnership with EDI (Exchange Data International).

Euromoney TRADEDATA and EDI have collaborated in mutual areas of market interest for many years and so it is with much anticipation that Euromoney TRADEDATA announces this strategic partnership with EDI.  The DerivActions feed is powered by EDI’s WCA, Worldwide Corporate Actions feed and covers all corporate action event types.  The deep integration with Euromoney TRADEDATA’s product suite will provide an effective and fit for purpose corporate actions data service for the futures and options industry, available across all the company’s core feeds and workflow products. Read More

S&P Global and IHS Markit Merger Receives Conditional Approval from European Commission

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NEW YORK and LONDON, Oct. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) and IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO) today announced that they have received a conditional Phase 1 approval for their $44 billion merger from the European Commission (EC), marking another significant step toward the combination of these highly complementary companies.

“The European Commission’s decision provides clarity on the steps we will need to implement to complete our combination,” said Douglas L. Peterson, President and Chief Executive Officer of S&P Global. “Once concluded, I expect the merger of these two great businesses to accelerate innovation within our core services and generate exciting new opportunities that deliver on our capacity to power the markets of the future.” Read More

Exchange Data International to Facilitate Foreign Marginable Securities

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London, November 05, 2021 –Exchange Data International (EDI) will provide market participants with Foreign Marginable Securities (FMS) data that determines portfolio margin eligibility for non-US securities.

Earlier this year the OCC decided to discontinue their Foreign Marginable Securities daily feed. This program will now terminate as of November 12, 2021. The purpose of the feed was to list securities trading on non-US markets that have a “ready market” position. Read More

CLOUD: A Primer on Third-Party Data Distribution Methods: What Are They and Why Use Them?

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No pre-requisite knowledge of cloud required to join this primer. Hear from both data providers distributing data and data consumers ingesting data how distribution and consumption patterns are changing, and understand some of the considerations that go into shifting the evaluation, procurement, and use of data in the cloud. In this webinar, you’ll learn:

What are the primary distribution methods being used to distribute data in the cloud?
What new distribution patterns are evolving given cloud-based services and tools?
What types of financial or alternative data lend themselves well to cloud-based distribution/analysis?
Why are firms shifting to cloud-based data distribution/consumption, looking at scale, security, ease of use?
Why are data providers and consumers increasingly using data marketplaces?

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New York Issue Brief – Part 2

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New Member Briefing: Barchart
Speaker: Mark Wator, Head of Sales – Financial & Media, Barchart

Fireside Chat: Decentralized Finance – A New Data Frontier
Interviewer: Kirsten Wegner, CEO, Modern Markets Initiative
Speaker: Jim Greco, Head of Quantitative Trading, Radkl (a GTS company)
Crypto currencies are rapidly changing the face of trading, investing and data. In this fireside chat, hear from two experts on the front lines of digital assets discuss the future – and impact – of DeFi, data access and regulatory challenges. Moderator Kirsten Wegner, the CEO of the Modern Markets Initiative, will interview Jim Greco, head of quantitative trading at Radkl, a new and exciting crypto trading firm launched by global market maker GTS and funded in part by Steven Cohen of Point72.

Google vs. Oracle Supreme Court Decision – Effect on Financial Services Industry
Speaker: Joel Wolfson, Associate General Counsel, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Google v. Oracle case concerns what API computer code can be protected by copyright law. But the decision is about the copyright “fair use” doctrine in a broader context, and so has much to say to those in the financial industry.

New Member Briefing: Crizit
Speaker: Ethan Shen, Managing Partner, Crizit

FISD Update

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