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SIX Telekurs’ Filanowski Highlights the Biggest Data Challenges of Dodd Frank

The Dodd Frank Act contains a whole host of new and different data requirements in terms of reporting formats and potential standards, but how will all of this impact the practitioner and vendor communities directly? Reference Data Review speaks to Paul Filanowski, US product development at SIX Telekurs, about the changing US regulatory scene and how it…

RBC Dexia Strengthens Client Relations in Switzerland With New Director

RBC Dexia Investor Services has appointed Corinne Vitte as director of relationship management in Switzerland, starting 2 May 2011. Vitte will further strengthen RBC Dexia’s relationships with its existing client base in Switzerland and Luxembourg, adding to the appointment of Andreas Schmid to a similar role earlier this year. She will report to Marco Siero,…

Interactive Data’s Williams Heads to Rival SIX Telekurs for Senior US Sales Role

Following the post-acquisition management shake-up at Interactive Data, former president of institutional sales Cort Williams has jumped ship to join data vendor rival SIX Telekurs as its new executive vice president for sales and business development in the Americas region. Williams, who has been with Interactive Data since 1996, will focus on direct and redistributor…

IMS Group Boosts Consultancy Practice

The IMS Group (IMS), a provider of global regulatory compliance consulting and integrated business support to the asset management and securities industry, has further bolstered its consultancy offering with the hires of Jonathan Mott, Oksana Selezneva and Claire Carpenter. IMS has seen a year of rapid growth, including the acquisition of compliance consultancy MMS in…

Breaking News: Ex-Morgan Stanley Economist Berner Takes Over US Treasury and OFR Role from Alexander

Following on from the recent departure of Lewis Alexander from the US Treasury, the regulator has appointed former Morgan Stanley chief economist Richard Berner to take over Alexander’s role as advisor on domestic financial matters to Treasury secretary Tim Geithner. A key part of this job is helping the Treasury to establish the new Office…

Euroclear’s Kuhnel on ANNA’s Potential as a Registration Authority, What to Expect this Year on Legal Entity IDs

As elaborated upon by WMDatenservice’s Markus Heer earlier this year, the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) is pitching itself as a suitable registration authority for the new legal entity identification (LEI) standard underlying the US Office of Financial Research (OFR). Dan Kuhnel, chairman of ANNA and director for primary markets and international fixed income…

Data Quality on the Brain

The last thing I expected to hear during a panel on low latency technology deployment at this week’s Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading (catchily dubbed BTLLT by fellow A-Teamers) conference in London was speakers talking about reference data quality. But that’s what happened. Everywhere I go people are talking about data quality. They might…

Princeton Financial Systems appoints Christian Farber as Head of Global Sales and Marketing

Princeton Financial Systems (PFS), a provider of investment accounting, investment compliance, data management, performance measurement, and reporting solutions to the global investment industry, today announced that it has appointed Christian Farber as senior vice president and head of global sales and marketing. “PFS has the key elements that I was seeking in a company: people,…

Quantifi to Provide Leading ASEAN Investment Bank Pricing and Analysis Solutions

Quantifi, a provider of analytics, trading and risk management solutions for the global capital markets, today announced that CIMB Group’s investment banking division has selected its pricing and risk analytics solutions, Quantifi XL, to support its expanding operations. CIMB Group is Malaysia’s second largest financial services provider and one of Southeast Asia’s leading universal banking…

Pricing Control and Data Governance for Valuations is High on Industry Agenda, Says PaceMetrics’ Severs

Given the regulatory focus on increased transparency, financial institutions are putting much more emphasis on “control and influence” of valuations data, according to Dick Severs, senior buy side consultant at EDM solution vendor PaceMetrics. Severs, who joined the vendor in 2009 from ING Investment Management, reckons investment in pricing control and data governance by fund…