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SIX Telekurs USA Positions For Growth With Senior Hires
SIX Telekurs USA, the American subsidiary of the Swiss-based financial information vendor, today announced that it has appointed Anthony Fiori as manager of data acquisition, Renee Potter as vice president of business strategy and corporate development and Charles Roy as vice president, head of finance. Fiori has more than 20 years’ experience in financial information...
Nearly 40% of Buy Side Firms Don’t Have Internal OTC Derivatives Pricing Capabilities, Says BNY Mellon Research
A large proportion of the buy side is falling short with regards to its internal pricing capabilities, according to a research paper by Bank of New York Mellon, with nearly 40% of the respondents to its recently conducted survey indicating that they have no in-house capabilities and are relying on counterparty valuations alone for the...
FinCen Proposes New Electronic Format and Data Field Amendments for Unified Currency Transaction Reports in the US
In keeping with its work to move from paper-based to electronic reporting formats, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen) has published a list of proposed new data fields to be added to firms’ currency transaction reports, as required under the US Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). Industry participants have until 28 March to provide feedback on...
A-Team Webinar (Recorded): The Current State of Risk Data Quality
Click below to watch the webinar (recorded Jan 27, 2011) for free! The marketplace waits with bated breath for firm details of regulatory initiatives which will have significant implications for data management practices within financial institutions. While these details remain in discussion and development, it’s clear that regulators are taking data quality very seriously. In...
SmartStream’s New Recruit Stewart on DClear’s Performance Thus Far: Metrics and Multi-Tenant Architecture
In his new role as sales director for SmartStream’s DClear business, ex-GoldenSource exec Hugh Stewart has been tasked with raising the profile of the reference data utility solution, as it extends its reach into areas such as corporate actions, standing settlement instructions and legal entity data. As revealed by Reference Data Review back in November, the vendor...
Cleansing Entity Data is a Priority for Firms Facing Regulatory and Risk Management Challenges, Says Interactive Data’s Cumberbatch
Bob Cumberbatch, European business lines director at Interactive Data, speaks to A-Team Insight about his views on the developments within the legal entity identification space, including the lessons learned in the wake of the fall of Lehman. In the third of our series of talking heads on the challenges surrounding entity data management in the...
Opinion: Data Repositories and Consolidated Tape Proposals
By Chris Pickles, head of marketing for Financial Markets & Wholesale Banking at BT The story begins with passengers (the public) on a plane with all the aircrew (the investment firms) telling them how smooth and level the flight is going to be, just as it has always been. That was back in 2005. And...
Asset Control Opens Zurich Office, Hires Senior Sales Executive
Asset Control announced today the opening of its office in Zurich, Switzerland and the hiring of a new senior sales executive for Europe, Patrick Odoni. Asset Control is also expanding its professional services and sales staff in Zurich to meet growing customer demand in the region. Patrick Odoni has joined Asset Control as senior sales...
Bloomberg’s Warms Responds to Data Manager Feedback on the BBGID
Earlier this month, three data manager readers of Reference Data Review provided feedback on the Bloomberg Global ID (BBGID), which lies at the heart of the data vendor’s open symbology initiative. In response to these queries, Peter Warms, global head of Bloomberg’s global identifiers and symbology, explains that BBGID will remain free and comes with no restrictions...
DClear Services Expansion Continues with Appointment of Industry Veteran Hugh Stewart
SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist, today announced the appointment of Hugh Stewart as sales director for its DClear Services business. Stewart joins DClear with more than 30 years of sales and management experience in the global financial services and technology industries, most recently as SVP of sales, EMEA and Asia at enterprise data...