Jun 5 2009

Market Data & Reference Data

Market Data:
Data associated with securities, financial directives, investment instruments, and currency is known as market data referred as real time price data. Market data is highly time sensitive data, used by traders, investors or broadly speaking all users, involved in securities’ transactions.
Information related to equity or stock that is available on trading desk can [...]

Jun 2 2009

Reference Data - Hierarchy determines the strength!

Once upon a time : An old farmer called his sons and told them to break a bundle of sticks.
Plot Explained : Whether the sons will be able to break the sticks/bundle depends mainly upon:
a. thickness/quality of the sticks
b. thickness of the overall bundle
Result : When the sons were not able to break the bundle, [...]

Apr 30 2009

Corporate Actions Practice

Corporate Action (CA) related work was started by CDI when one of our initial clients wanted to have an updated information about counterparties in their database. We started Capturing agreements and completion news with around 1100 major groups of the world (This figure increased many times over these years).

From just capturing news for our client’s [...]

Apr 20 2009

Enjoy Picture Perfect Reference Data!

Enjoy Picture Perfect Reference Data!
Last year during my trip to Goa I witnessed people from almost all the corners of the world enjoying natural beauty at its best. Americans, Europeans, Russians, Asia Pac Natives, Mid East people, people from a little known corners of the world, and whoever was there, was watching the scenic beauty [...]