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Linedata Appoints APAC MD
Sally Crane has joined Linedata in June 2011 as Managing Director, responsible for growing Linedata’s business in Asia. Key responsibilities include business development, delivery and strategy, as well as oversight for the Hong Kong office. Prior to that, Sally was Regional Director for FactSet Pacific in Hong Kong, after moving to Asia in 1997. During...
Otkritie Appoints Eleven for New International Team
Otkritie, one of the largest financial groups and leading providers of high frequency trading solutions in Russia, has hired a team of eleven to bolster its expanding fixed income and strategy department. The appointments coincide with the latest Thomson Reuters Extel results, which focus on excellence in investment banking and asset management as voted by...
Former EMC and Tieto Executive Willem Hendrickx Joins Miradore as Advisor
Miradore, an innovative provider of automated IT asset management services, today announced the appointment of Willem Hendrickx as Advisor. He will have a key role in challenging and supporting Miradore’s executive team through an aggressive phase of international growth. The recently introduced Miradore 3.0 provides IT management with a single dashboard view and remote access...
SunGard to Offer Same Day Securities Lending Data
SunGard is now offering same day securities lending data through SunGard’s Astec Analytics Lending Pit solution, helping customers improve price discovery, increase profitability and decrease risk. Broker-dealers and lending agents currently rely on data that is at least one to two days old, making it difficult to monitor the fast moving securities lending market or...
Omgeo Launches New Omgeo ALERT Capabilities to Drive Settlement Instruction Data Quality
Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, today announced the availability of new Omgeo ALERT functionality, SI Compliance Scan. Omgeo ALERT is the world’s largest and most compliant web-based global database for the maintenance and communication of settlement and account instructions (SI). With this new functionality, users can measure the quality of SI data by...
SIX Telekurs Provides French Taxation and Regulation Information
SIX Telekurs has expanded its compliance-related services with French tax and regulatory information for investors and companies with tax liabilities in France. This new service helps financial institutions with French clients or French assets to correctly prepare their accounts to effectively and efficiently process French tax and regulatory requirements. SIX Telekurs, a leading financial information...
EDM Council Plans Fee-based Data Quality Rulebook, Ramps up Semantics Proof of Concept Work
The EDM Council has this month indicated that it is considering a new fee-based service that would provide members with data quality rules that firms could embed in their quality review processes. The idea has gone to the association’s board for approval and if it receives the green light, will be discussed with the membership...
Eze Castle’s Keller Elaborates on Why There’s Room for One More EDM Solution Provider
The enterprise data management (EDM) solution vendor community has been going through something of an evolution over recent years and many of the incumbent vendors have been branching out further downstream into other areas of the data lifecycle, so it’s surprising to see a new entrant on the scene. However, this week, ConvergEx owned Eze...
SAS’ Rogers Talks up the Data Detail Store Layer in its Risk Management Platform, Signals Imminent Capital Markets Focused Developments
Risk management solution provider SAS has this week launched the latest iteration of its risk management platform, which features a data integration layer that has been dubbed the SAS Detail Data Store (DDS) for Banking and aims to act as an intermediary between data warehouses and the risk analytics function. David Rogers, global product marketing...
Six Industry Associations Raise Concerns About Privacy of SIFI Data, Ask for More Time for Input on Requirements
The criteria surrounding regulatory assessments for firms that are to be considered systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) have proved controversial over recent months, but the most recent industry furore seems to be about what happens to the data about these firms once it has been collected. This week, six industry associations wrote a letter to...