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Rimes Technologies Expands into China with Shanghai Office

Rimes Technologies has opened a new office in Shanghai, China’s technological gateway and one of the largest commercial, financial, industrial and communications centres in the world. The move significantly strengthens Rimes’ global support function, and represents a natural development of its worldwide expansion strategy. Doug Garrity, senior partner at Rimes, commented: “The People’s Republic of...

SmartStream’s Ex-reference Data Utility Head Mason Resurfaces as COO of Netik

The switchboard at Netik must be having one hell of a time at the moment, given the range of new names they have had to memorise to take into account the catalogue of people moves that have gone on at the data management outsourcing solution vendor so far this year. The latest new recruit to...

LakeFront Data is Back in the Same Portfolio as RDF Again, Following Acquisition by First Derivatives

In January last year, New York-based reference data management solution vendor Reference Data Factory (RDF) was demerged from Toronto-based consulting firm LakeFront Data Ventures, but following its acquisition by RDF’s new owner First Derivatives this week, the firms are now back together again. The firms originally demerged to avoid what former president and CEO of...

Acquisition of Interactive Data Corporation Completed

Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced the completion of its acquisition by investment funds managed by Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement entered into on May 3, 2010, Interactive Data’s stockholders will receive $33.86 in cash, without interest, less...

Asset Control’s Lynch and Enfield Elaborate on Capital Group Implementation

Earlier this month, investment management firm Capital Group signed up to roll out Asset Control’s AC Plus and AC Connect solutions as its new enterprise data management platform, president and CEO of the vendor Phil Lynch and AC Plus business owner Rick Enfield explain that the firm selected the solution due to its productised approach...

Thomson Reuters’ Enterprise Division Experiences 4% Increase in Revenue for Second Quarter, Bright Spot in Overall Decline

The fortunes of data giant Thomson Reuters’ Enterprise division seem to be continuing to shine as the vendor’s bright spot for revenue growth this year. Last quarter, the division’s revenue increased 3% on the previous year’s figures for the first quarter and, this quarter, the division experienced a 4% revenue growth on the revenues for the...

Opinion: Comply or Compete? Data Governance Delivers the Balance

By Norbert Boon, global head of solutions at PaceMetrics While the liquidity requirements of the impending Basel III financial reform have been pared back, the regulatory reporting demands on banks remain a vast challenge – especially in terms of data management. In this article, Norbert Boon, global head of solutions at PaceMetrics, looks at how...

CESR Clarifies New UCITS Document Requirements in Latest CP, Data Workflow Challenges Ahead

Following on from its technical advice on the management of cross border data for UCITS earlier this year, the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has just published a series of new consultation papers that provide guidelines for the selection and presentation of data for the new Key Investor Information (KII) documents, which will require...

Delta RDF Implementation on Track to Deliver Data Vendor Feed Plug and Play Functionality, Says Algorithmics’ Orde

Risk management solution vendor Algorithmics’ decision to roll out First Derivatives’ Delta Reference Data Factory as its new core reference data engine was driven by a desire to reduce new client implementation times and to allow for a more plug and play approach to changing existing customers’ data feeds, according to Roger Orde, senior director of...

Asset Control to Provide Centralised Data Management for The Capital Group

Asset Control recently entered into an agreement with the Capital Group Companies, an investment management organisation, to provide financial data management solutions through Asset Control’s AC Plus. The Capital Group will use AC Plus as part of its plan to upgrade middle and back office technologies to increase operational efficiencies and business flexibility. AC Plus...