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Asset Control’s Lynch Discusses Ongoing Hiring Strategy, Gibbins’ Recent Appointment
Earlier this week, EDM vendor Asset Control announced that it had brought on board ex-Microsoft exec Brooks Gibbins to take on responsibility for its product management, corporate strategy and business development across all of its solutions. Phil Lynch, CEO and president at the vendor, explains that the appointment of Gibbins fits into Asset Control’s aim...
RIMES to Unveil Investit Survey Findings in Upcoming Webinar
According to a new study commissioned by RIMES Technologies and conducted by independent research firm Investit, there is an ever increasing demand for additional index and benchmark data as nearly three out of four (72%) global investment management organizations indicated they expect to see an increase in their usage in the coming year. In fact,...
GMI & Si2 Partner, Offering ESG Proxy Research Resource
GMI and Si2 announced today a strategic partnership to provide seamless subscription access, account management and special pricing to the firms’ ESG Board Briefing Research, Shareholder Proposal Analysis, and Executive Pay Scorecards to their institutional and corporate clients. The combination of GMI’s market-leading compensation analysis with Si2’s expert insights into key environmental and social issues...
Axioma Names Ian Webster Managing Director, Europe
Axioma, a leading provider of decision support, risk analysis and portfolio rebalancing and performance attribution tools, today announced that Ian Webster has been appointed Managing Director, Europe. Webster will lead the company’s efforts to accelerate the pace of Axioma’s market share in Europe and will oversee Axioma’s rapidly growing global indexing initiatives. “Europe is an...
Misys’ Blanc on the First Fruit of the Vendor’s Integration Work with the Sophis Portfolio: Misys Risk
Following its acquisition of Sophis, which was finalised in March this year, Misys has been focused on allowing clients to “leverage the combination” of both vendors’ component parts (as explained by CEO Mike Lawrie back in March). The first fruit of the combined vendor’s labours is today’s release of its new enterprise market risk solution,...
Omgeo Appoints Nellie Dagdag as Executive Director
Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, today announced the appointment of Cornelia “Nellie” Dagdag as Executive Director for Sales and Solution Delivery. Before joining Omgeo, Nellie was the President and COO of the Philippine Securities Settlement Corporation, the clearing and settlement entity for the Philippine currency and fixed income markets. Nellie will be responsible...
Kinetic Partners Expands Consulting Team with Three New Hires
Kinetic Partners, a global professional services firm to the asset management, investment banking and broking industry, today announced that it has appointed three new professionals to its consulting team. Patrick Crumplin, Martin Duff and Emily Benson join the Firm’s highly-regarded regulatory consulting and compliance team and all three will be based in the firm’s London...
Nasdaq OMX Preps UltraFeed – for Equities, Options and Futures
NYSE Euronext has SuperFeed, so it’s perhaps no surprise that rival Nasdaq OMX is planning next year to release UltraFeed – a consolidated feed of North American equities, options and futures trade and quote data. And it’s enlisted Quodd Financial Information Services as its first customer and redistributor. UltraFeed will be a normalised data feed...
FISD Presents Lifetime Achievement Award to Joseph Kasputys
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) today announced that Dr. Joseph Kasputys, founder and former chairman, president and ceo of global information company IHS Global Insight, is the recipient of the fourth Market Data Lifetime Achievement Award. The honor recognizes leaders who have advanced the financial information...
Fiserv’s Hanselman Discusses its Basel III Education Programme
Risk management solution vendor Fiserv has been engaging in an educational outreach programme with the financial services community regarding incoming regulatory developments such as Basel III. Reference Data Review speaks to Orlando Hanselman, education programmes director for risk and compliance solutions at Fiserv, about some of this work with board level execs “There is a great degree...