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Research Affiliates Selects Asset Control’s AC Invest Data Management Solution for Business Users
Research Affiliates, an investment management firm based in Newport Beach, California, has chosen Asset Control’s AC Invest data management solution to underpin its data management operations. Research Affiliates required a data management system that could expand along with its growing roster of products and affiliates around the world. The new system must allow them to…
SunGard’s Scianna on the Position, Risk and Ops Focused Restructure and Plans for the Stream Solution Set This Year
As part of its overall push to better integrate its various solution sets following so many acquisitions over the last few years, SunGard has created a new division focused on supporting the position, risk and operations functions within financial institutions. Various parts from the old brokerage and clearance business, the wider capital markets group and…
Morgan Stanley’s Collier Rumoured to be Heading to Thomson Reuters
Following its furious spate of hiring new execs from vendors and financial institutions over recent months, data giant Thomson Reuters is rumoured to be adding yet another prominent industry figure to its ranks in the near future: current executive director and head of EMEA government relations for investment bank Morgan Stanley, Nick Collier. Collier, who…
First Derivatives Hires MD, Global Sales for Reference Data Solutions
First Derivatives, a provider of software and consulting services to global investment banks and hedge funds this morning announced the addition of Bret Bange to its management team. Based in NY, Bret will head global sales and marketing of FD’s suite of reference data solutions, which are marketed under the Group’s “Delta” product brand. As…
Project Brokers’ Cox Highlights Ref Data and Risk Management Applications of Biz Intelligence Software
In light of the current regulatory scrutiny of reference data, there has been a recent surge in the number of downstream data monitoring software solutions on the market and Project Brokers’ QlikView is a case in point. Daren Cox, CEO and managing director of the self-styled business intelligence consultancy, which was established back in 2005,…
Aiming for Omgeo’s Lunch?
The announcement this week that Swift will be launching a new “range of initiatives” targeted at the standing settlement instructions (SSI) space is obviously part of the network operator’s new 2015 strategy to get into the reference data space, but it also represents yet another competitive bid to eat rival Omgeo’s lunch. The planned SSI repository…
New Commodity Derivatives IDs Likely to Prove a Headache for Both the Industry and Regulators
As well as highlighting the legal entity identification challenges that the industry is likely to face as a result of the MiFID review, attendees to this week’s MiFID Transaction Reporting Group meeting also elaborated on the instrument identification challenges of the European Commission’s planned extension of the directive to cover the OTC and commodity derivatives….
SEC Proposes First in Series of Rule Amendments to Remove References to Credit Ratings
The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted unanimously to propose amendments to its rules that would remove credit ratings as one of the conditions for companies seeking to use short-form registration when registering securities for public sale. Section 939A of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requires federal agencies to review how…
CFTC’s Dunn Admits That Key Market Definitions are Missing from Reforms at the Outset
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has spent most of the start of this year complaining about its dire situation with regards to funding, but this week saw definitive proof that the regulatory reform process is starting off down the wrong track, with the admission by CFTC commissioner Michael Dunn that the regulator is pushing…
MoneyMate Expands North American Operations
MoneyMate, a leading provider of investment data quality management solutions, today announced the continuing expansion of its operations in North America with the opening of a new office in Boston. MoneyMate has also appointed industry veteran Stephen B. Kraunelis as Senior Vice President, North American Sales. Mr. Kraunelis will be based in Boston. With 20…