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Mark Hepsworth Returns to London as President of Interactive Data EMEA
Interactive Data has confirmed that Mark Hepsworth has returned to London to lead the company’s EMEA business as president. His responsibilities include the company’ pricing and reference data, trading solutions, managed solutions and desktops businesses in the region. Hepsworth remains a member of the company’s global executive committee. Hepsworth moved to London early this year…
Interactive Data’s Stephan Wolf is Named as CEO of the Global LEI Foundation
Stephan Wolf, chief technology officer and member of the executive board at Interactive Data Managed Solutions AG has been named as the CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) that was established in June 2014 and will oversee the development and operation of the Central Operating Unit of the Global LEI System. The…
BMO Global Asset Management Benefits from SimCorp IBOR
BMO Global Asset Management is making better investment decisions on behalf of its clients following the implementation of SimCorp Dimension as an investment book of record (IBOR). The asset manager says the IBOR supports consistent data in downstream applications and provides better information, faster. It has also allowed the asset manager to introduce new products…
Chair of LEI Foundation Details Final Push to Complete Global LEI System
The formation of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) and the first meeting of its board of directors late last month signal a final push towards completion of the Global LEI System (GLEIS). A CEO for the foundation is expected to be appointed in October and will manage the Central Operating Unit (COU) of…
BlueBay Asset Management Selects Confluence Hosted Services for Regulatory Reporting
BlueBay Asset Management has selected Confluence to support its automated regulatory reporting following a competitive selection process and on the basis of the company’s ability to meet both immediate and future regulatory reporting requirements. BlueBay, a manager of fixed income and alternative investment products, will initially use Confluence’s Unity NXT hosted services for AIFMD, Form…
Six Bidders Shortlisted to Build the US Consolidated Audit Trail
The Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) first proposed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) back in 2010 has come a step closer to reality with the selection of six bids from a list of 10 RFP responses that were submitted to build and maintain the audit trail. The six bids still in the running…
A-Team Group Webinar Offers Insight into Improving Data Contributions
Data contributions to financial benchmarks have been a cause for concern since the Libor scandal emerged in 2012, yet despite heavy fines imposed on banks that manipulated the rate, only now are efforts to improve the situation being made in earnest. Addressing the issues of data contributions to the market, an A-Team Group webinar entitled…
GoldenSource Packages EDM Components to Deliver Centralised Entity Master
GoldenSource has pulled together components of its enterprise data management (EDM) product set to deliver a single, centralised entity master. The entity data solution is part of GoldenSource EDM Version 8.5 and combines technologies already on the EDM platform with a new presentation layer, additional feed handlers and rules and workflows for entity data management….
Atlas ATS Deploys Strevus Compliance Solution to Support Digital Currency Exchange
Atlas ATS, a New York based cryptocurrency trading exchange, has deployed a Strevus hosted solution to ensure that its institutional customers achieve Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance as required under the US Bank Secrecy Act. The exchange is up and running with the Strevus compliance lifecycle management solution in New York…
European Fund Administration Benefits from AIM Portfolio Pricing Solution
European Fund Administration (EFA) has deployed AIM Software’s GAIN Portfolio Pricing business application to manage increasing regulatory requirements around portfolio pricing and meet growing client demand for more frequent net asset value (NAV) calculations. The AIM portfolio pricing application, which is based on the company’s GAIN enterprise data management platform, is the central component of…