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Loan Market Association Elects New Directors
The following new Directors were elected to the LMA Board at the AGM on 29 June, 2011: Jonathan Macdonald (Barclays Capital), Sean Malone(The Royal Bank of Scotland) and Greig Morrish (Invesco UK Limited). At the Board meeting immediately following the AGM, Ian Fitzgerald (Lloyds Banking Group) was elected Chairman of the Loan Market Association. Elected...
Citi’s Data Quality Expert Berlanger to Depart Next Week
After five years as director in charge of data quality at Citi, Geert Berlanger is heading for pastures new. Berlanger, who has been heavily engaged in the firm’s counterparty data management project over the last few years (it was kicked off by chief data officer John Bottega back in 2007), will be leaving the firm...
Talend MDM Stretches Beyond 100 Million Master Record Milestone on Commodity Server
Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that Talend MDM Enterprise Edition, the leading open source Master Data Management (MDM) solution, can now scale to master more than 100 million records on a single $1200 server, providing the ability to accommodate virtually any volume of master data. Released in 2010, Talend MDM is...
One Client Has Moved from 24% to 100% Data Quality Compliance via Omgeo’s SI Compliance Scan, Says Meenaghan
Omgeo has this month launched new functionality for its settlement and account instruction (SSI) database that Bill Meenaghan, global product manager for the vendor’s Alert platform, claims has allowed one client to move from 24% to 100% data quality compliance within a matter of weeks. The SI Compliance Scan functionality is therefore aimed at helping...
Oracle’s Khanna Elaborates on its Joint Project Work with the Data and Risk Vendor Community
Oracle is working with a number of vendor clients, including data management solution vendors GoldenSource, Asset Control and Polarlake, on joint implementation projects to build out reference data management capabilities. Ambreesh Khanna, vice president of technology and systems at Oracle Financial Services’ Global Business Unit, explains to Reference Data Review that the main driver behind these...
Inalytics to Provide Analytical Services to Russell Investments
Inalytics, the firm that identifies investment skill, today announced it has been hired by Russell Investments, a global investment services firm, to provide analytical services in support of Russell’s evaluation, due diligence and monitoring of managers within selected Russell multi-manager funds. Commenting on the appointment, Rick Di Mascio, Chief Executive and founder of Inalytics, said:...
Bloomberg Symbology (BSYM) Enters Asian Markets
Ace Derivatives and Commodity Exchange, a Kotak Group anchored commodity exchange in India, has successfully completed integration of the Bloomberg Global Identifier (‘BBGID’). The Exchange supports Bloomberg’s Open Symbology (BSYM), and is the first exchange to adopt the BBGID in Asia. Dilip Bhatia, Chief Executive Officer of Ace Commodity Exchange said, “We see Bloomberg’s Open...
Delaying The Inevitable
Bowing to market pressure, it seems that the SEC has given the financial trading community a little extra time to implement certain aspects of the so-called Market Access Rule covering pre-trade risk. Instead of a July 14 deadline, trading firms, brokerages and exchanges now have a November 30 date to work to for implementing aggregate...
SimCorp Releases System Readiness Assessment for Dodd-Frank
SimCorp, a leading provider of highly specialised software and expertise for the investment industry, has released a white paper discussing the technology considerations a buy-side firm should take into account on its road to Dodd-Frank compliance. The paper, entitled: “Impact of Dodd-Frank on OTC Derivatives: Supporting Central Trading and Clearing” details SimCorp’s recommendations for preparing...
Noel Donohoe Appointed DTCC’s New Group Chief Risk Officer
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today announced that it has named Noel Donohoe to a newly created position as Executive Managing Director and Group Chief Risk Officer. A financial services industry leader in global risk management, Donohoe will join DTCC in August, with responsibility for formulating and implementing DTCC¹s overall risk management strategy...