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| Issuers in the limelight? |
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| "What if, rather than simply using a text-based document to make
an event announcement, issuers instead used an intelligent document format
that required them to do no more than select from drop-down boxes and build
their event on the fly." |
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| By Nat Sey, FT Interactive Data's manager of infrastructure and delivery,
and member of the Reference Data User Group (RDUG) and its corporate actions
working group |
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| A strange thing is happening in the securities industry. People, often
from within the same sector and from competing companies, are working with
one another for the betterment of the whole industry. Since when did competitors
become so friendly? Could it be since they bought into the idea of standardisation
of the core components of their offerings on which there is no gain to
be had in competing with one another. |
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