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Brendan Beith Joins Rimes Technologies
Brendan Beith has joined Rimes Technologies, a provider of managed data services, as head of sales, world ex Americas. He took up the post this month after leaving his role as managing director, pricing and reference data, EMEA at Interactive Data in September 2014. Beith was appointed to this role in 2010 having been European…
Alacra and Accuity Partner to Integrate Bankers Almanac with Alacra Compliance Enterprise
Accuity and Alacra have partnered to integrate data from Accuity’s Bankers Almanac with the Alacra Compliance Enterprise (ACE) workflow application. The partnership includes integration of Bankers Almanac’s Due Diligence Data File with ACE and is expected to increase the speed and efficiency of client onboarding. The partnership has been made in response to client requests…
Eagle Investment Systems Promotes Cullen to CEO, Lehner Becomes Chairman
Eagle Investment Systems has promoted Mal Cullen to the role of CEO, replacing John Lehner who becomes chairman of the company. Cullen joined Eagle in 2001 as head of Canadian operations and most recently served as head of the Americas and Eagle Access, the company’s secure private cloud. Under Cullen’s leadership, Eagle Access has grown…
Swift Considers Client Name Screening Service Based on Sanctions Screening Managed Service Model
Swift has extended its sanctions screening service to support all financial transaction formats and is considering the feasibility of using a similar managed service model to build a client name screening solution that could support banks’ client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes. Extensions to Swift’s sanctions screening service cover batch SEPA payments and…
Redline Trading Solutions Adds Managed Version of RedlineFeed
Redline Trading Solutions has introduced a managed version of RedlineFeed, which offers subscribers an ultra-low latency market data feed built from straight-line aggregation of exchange feeds using Redline’s ticker plant. The data feed provides ultra-low latency normalised market data for US equities and options, but will soon be augmented with futures and foreign exchange data….
AIM Software Plans to Accelerate Growth Following Private Equity Investment
New York based private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) has taken a majority stake in AIM Software and plans to work with the company as a strategic partner to accelerate geographic expansion and drive up revenue by 40% to 50% over the next year. WCAS declines to detail the size of its…
Barry Raskin to Leave SIX Financial Information
Barry Raskin is leaving his role as president of SIX Financial Information USA at the end of this month after nearly 28 years with the company. He joined Telekurs (North America) in 1987 as chief financial officer and became managing director in 1995. In 2008, the SIX Group was formed through the merger of Telekurs,…
Opinion – Tougher Stress Tests Bring Banks to an Impasse: Revolutionise or Fail
By Peter Ku, Senior Director of Global Financial Services, Informatica Just before Christmas, the results of the first stress testing exercise for the UK banking system were revealed. The test scenarios modelled a financial doomsday, in which the housing market crashes, unemployment spikes and inflation rises. The aim of the exercise was to determine which…
Bloomberg Builds Out Use Cases of Vault Data Management Service
Bloomberg is considering additional use cases for its Vault data management solution and File Analytics software including reference data management and maintenance for regulatory reporting. File Analytics was added to Bloomberg’s cloud-based Vault service in June 2014 with a view to helping organisations locate and manage what Bloomberg calls dark data, essentially structured and unstructured…
Man Group Streamlines KYC Process with Thomson Reuters Managed Service
Man Group has selected Thomson Reuters’ KYC Managed Service to replace predominantly manual in-house customer due diligence processes. The managed service is expected to help the alternative investment manager streamline its Know Your Customer (KYC) process and improve the monitoring of client records on an ongoing basis. Man Group searched the market for a global…