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Information Mosaic Americas Hires Sigrid Wiley As Product Specialist
Information Mosaic, a post-trade automation solutions vendor, announced today that it has hired Sigrid Wiley as a product specialist for the Americas region. In this role, Wiley will perform business analysis and consulting tasks, as well as deliver pre-sales support to the Americas sales team. She will also provide input to regional product direction. Wiley...
Profidata Group Opens London Office
Profidata Group, a provider of investment and wealth management systems, has expanded its operations by opening a London office to serve the UK and Ireland region. This expansion comes at a time of sustained growth for the company. Christian Widmer, CEO of Profidata Group, said: “As well as growing our business across Northern Europe we...
Canuck Exchanges Take Solace in Data Distribution
So Toronto’s TMX Group just let it be known that it’s using Solace Systems’ message routers to distribute its market data. That makes it the second Canadian exchange group to go public with such news, following CNSX Markets, which revealed its planned adoption last September. Neither exchange group had to travel far to find their...
DataFlux Acquires Baseline Consulting
DataFlux, a provider of data management solutions, today announced it has acquired Baseline Consulting, a data management services and consulting firm. The move will provide DataFlux customers with the technical and business expertise to achieve more rapid ROI from their data management projects. Baseline helps organisations enhance the value of enterprise data, improve business results...
DTCC’s Thompson Testifies About the Importance of Data Repositories Beyond the Swaps Market
In keeping with its recent focus on data repositories, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) managing director and general counsel, Larry Thompson, this week testified before the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry stating that OTC derivatives market transparency could be improved by extending to other asset classes the current data repository model...
SEC Deals Another Blow to the Ratings Agencies with Further Proposed Legislative Amendments
As part of its overall crackdown on the credit ratings agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has this week proposed a series of amendments to the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 that will remove the requirements for mandatory credit ratings. The proposals are in accordance with the provisions...
Grody Claims GS1’s Position as a Wholly Focused Standards Administrator Gives it the Edge in the OFR Race
The bid by standards body GS1 to become the issuer of the new legal entity and instrument identification codes that are to be introduced as part of the developments around the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) may be only one of a number of options on the table, but key proponent and president of...
Good Year for GoldenSource?
The announcement of record 2010 results this week by EDM vendor GoldenSource could come as a surprise to some, given the bashing that the concept of ‘golden copy’ has taken in the industry of late and the numerous (thinly veiled) references to the troubles being experienced by the more established EDM vendors in the market...
Eric Miller to Join Credit Suisse as Head of Fixed Income Research Globally
Credit Suisse today announced that Eric Miller will join the Bank as a managing director and head of Fixed Income Research globally, effective June, 2011. Miller joins Credit Suisse as the head of Fixed Income Research globally and will be responsible for managing all research asset classes and continuing to build out our successful franchise....
McGraw Hill Financial’s Split from S&P’s Ratings Agency Signals its High Hopes for Data, Pricing and Analytics
The decision taken by Standard & Poor’s to split its data, pricing and analytics business from its ratings agency business, and to rebrand it under the new moniker of McGraw Hill Financial, is a further signal that the vendor has high hopes for this area of its business. Given the flack that the ratings agencies...