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Fiserv Names Cheryl Nash President, Investment Services

Fiserv, a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that Cheryl Nash has been named President of its Investment Services division. With 28 years of service with Investment Services at Fiserv, Nash brings a strong track record of industry leadership, technology expertise and commitment to serving clients to this role. She has...

M&G Upgrades GoldenSource EDM Platform

M&G Investments (M&G), one of Europe’s leading investment managers with £200 billion of assets under management, completed an upgrade to GoldenSource EDM version 8 in May 2011. Along with the upgrade, M&G extended GoldenSource’s enterprise data management (EDM) platform to utilize the derivatives capabilities, doubling instrument volumes and delivering trusted, consistent information to power key...

Bats Adds Binary

Bats Europe that is, which just added a binary protocol for order execution to the FIX protocol that it already supports. The new facility reduces latency that’s inherent in the more verbose FIX connectivity. A full suite of order types will be available using Binary Order Entry, so trading firms can opt for one or...

Form PF’s Final Rules Reduce Tension for Fund Managers

The final rules of Form PF announced last week by the SEC have opened up a whole new era for hedge fund and private equity businesses, which will now be forced to disclose more information to the US government than previously required. As such, each entity should plan how they will address the Form’s requirements...

PolarLake and Capgemini Form Alliance for Financial Services

The Financial Services Global Business Unit of Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, and PolarLake, a leading software vendor providing a platform for Reference Data Management (RDM) and distribution for financial institutions, today announced they have entered into an alliance to improve comprehensive enterprise data management for financial...

Andrew’s Blog – Bring In the Stormtroopers

More fall-out, it seems, from the ongoing restructuring at Thomson Reuters in the wake of former Markets head Devin Wenig’s resignation in the summer, this time within the Enterprise group. Enterprise chief Jon Robson this week announced the departures of enterprise data management head Sally Hinds and trade and risk chief Andy White, with their...

Virginie’s Blog – FSB Zeros in on G-SIFI Data

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has finally issued its first list of globally systemically important financial institutions (G-SIFIs) – a practice that it will reprise on an annual basis every November from now on – but what can these 29 firms expect in terms of new data requirements and when? The Cannes summit of G20...

SIX Telekurs & Eagle Investment Systems Deliver Enhanced Data Management Solutions

To showcase its newly enhanced interface with Eagle Investment Systems, SIX Telekurs is pleased to be a “Gold” sponsor of the 2011 Eagle Client Conference. Eagle’s Data Integration Services and SIX Telekurs have worked together to map the SIX Telekurs flagship Valordata Feed (VDF) to Eagle’s data management platform. Eagle is an advanced solution that...

Multifonds Strengthens Asian Team with Two New Hires

Multifonds, a leader in single-platform multi-jurisdictional investment fund software, has hired Chee Seng Lok as business development manager, and Andy Chua as regional product manager, bolstering its Asian division. Based in Singapore, they will be working together with Sandra Puah who heads the Multifonds professional services team in Asia. Chee Seng and Andy’s focus will...

Sapient Global Markets’ Orbon and Samborn Elaborate on the Planned ECB ABS Data Warehouse

The European Central Bank (ECB) confirmed last week that it has opted for Sapient Global Markets to build its new asset backed securities (ABS) warehouse for Europe. Kevin Samborn, who is lead architect on the warehouse project and is a consultant with Sapient Global Markets, and Randall Orbon, vice president with the vendor, explain the...