Chris Kentouris is senior international editor at Securities Industry News. He can be reached at Chris.Kentouris@SourceMedia.com.

Creating A Global Data Repository: Who Will Blink First?
February 24, 2010 The Fed wants to take on the role of systematic risk overseer in the U.S. if not the globe. And it needs data to analyze to do...

Developing Software? Be Forewarned and Forearmed
February 16, 2010 A new lawsuit filed by SFB Market Systems, a software firm specializing in options symbology, provides a glaring example of...

Bidders Lining Up For Interactive Data
February 11, 2010 Up to a dozen suitors are expected to make an initial bid to acquire Interactive Data, a supplier of sub-millisecond data for...

Firms Not Getting Their Money’s Worth Out of Data
February 10, 2010 Financial firms are spending big bucks on obtaining reference data to run their operations. But they are generally unhappy...

Sybase Expands to Real-Time Analytics With Aleri Purchase
February 5, 2010 Sybase’s acquisition of complex event processing firm Aleri boosts the database management firm’s appeal to firms...

Sybase Confirms Takeover of Aleri
February 4, 2010 Database management firm Sybase confirmed that it has agreed to acquire Aleri, a leading supplier of software for analyzing...

Sybase Expected To Announce Acquisition of Aleri
February 2, 2010 Sybase is expected within days to announce an agreement to buy Aleri, one of the leading suppliers of software that analyzes...

Bloomberg: It Can’t All Be Free
January 28, 2010 Bloomberg looks like it wants fund administrators to pay fees, if they use the data to service customers

Curbing Tax Evasion: Do You Know Where Your Data Is?
January 26, 2010 Efficient recording and management of customer data. That is what tax experts and operations executives believe will become a...

Dear CEOs: Get More Data for Risk Analysis
January 20, 2010 U.S. financial firms aren’t the only ones who need to worry about how to shore up their data management skills to comply...