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Ex-Netik Exec Hale Joins Multifonds IGEFI as New Global Head of Transfer Agency
After 13 years as executive vice president of EMEA for data management solution vendor Netik, Keith Hale has joined Multifonds IGEFI as its new global head of transfer agency. In his new role, Hale is responsible for all aspects of its software package Multifonds Transfer Agent at the buy side software solution provider including strategy,…
Moving Interactive Forward – Slowly
Unsurprisingly, there has been little news from Interactive Data on how its ‘strategic review’ is progressing. As you’ll recall, the company took everyone by surprise – including its staff – with the announcement that it’s exploring options as its current owner, Pearson, looks at focusing on its core business, which increasingly seems to be not…
Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
When we first heard the latest theory on the succession plan for the former Reuters – that is to say, the market data vendor now known as Thomson Reuters Markets – we thought it was just so much tittle-tattle. It was back in October or November, and the integration of Reuters with Thomson Financial had…
Standard Chartered Selects UnaVista for Reference Data Solution
The London Stock Exchange announced today that Standard Chartered, a major international bank, has selected UnaVista as its global repository for reference data. Standard Chartered recently became the first bank to benefit from the Exchange’s partnership with FactSet Research systems, and are now receiving counterparty and issuer linkage data from FactSet through UnaVista. Standard Chartered…
Handling Electronic Records and Dealing with Risk Management
By Robert Jones, legal consultant at Kroll Ontrack, and John Doherty, litigation partner at Manches What other challenges and benefits might arise when addressing the most effective management of electronically stored information? The Information Commissioner’s Office recently announced new fines to deter breaches of the law in relation to personal, which could see organisations being…
UBS Using Front Office Technology to Deal With Reference Data Processing, Says Berry
In a move that confirms that the worlds of the front office and the back office are moving ever closer, UBS’ executive in charge of market data sourcing and strategy, David Berry has indicated that the bank is using Celoxica’s hardware appliance-based data feed handlers to process its market and reference data. The rationale behind…
European Regulators Ready to Engage With Data Management Community, Says CESR Tech’s Voipio
As Fed governor Daniel Tarullo’s speech drives forward the data agenda in the US, across the pond, Arja Voipio, senior advisor at the Financial Supervisory Authority in Finland (FIN-FSA) and chair of CESR-Tech, the information technology governance structure of the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR), told delegates to Marcus Evans’ reference data conference that…
Market Data Capacity – 2009 Review, 2010 Outlook
From the safe distance of February 2010, we can look back at 2009, rake over the coals and think carefully about what lies ahead in 2010. Before I start my survey, I must point out that I am indebted to the Financial Information Forum and its membership, especially the exchanges, for providing a vast array…
Sunrise on Oracle
Oracle last week finally completed its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, and the company wasted no time in setting out its road map for how its software and Sun’s hardware (and some software) are going to be packaged together so that the sum is greater than the two parts. A surprise – kinda –…
UK FSA Grants Approval to Xtrakter for the Regulatory Reporting of Derivatives Using AII Codes
The UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) February deadline for the introduction of the Alternative Instrument Identifiers (AII) is fast approaching and this week the regulator has granted Trax platform operator Xtrakter approval to regulatory report exchange traded derivatives (ETD) using the new identifiers. Jason Waight, Xtrakter’s recently appointed director of product management, explains to Reference Data…