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BI-SAM and Capco Build a Strategic Alliance to Answer Growing US Market Needs
BI-SAM, a leading technology provider for performance measurement and attribution, and Capco, a global business and technology consultancy dedicated to the financial services industry, today announced they have signed a partnership to reinforce BI-SAM’s consultancy team to meet the growing needs of the North American market. Since the introduction of BI-SAM to North America in…
Netik Recruits Team for Delta One Division to Focus on Delta One Market
Netik, the global leading provider of financial data creation, management and distribution services and solutions today announced a major investment push in the Delta One space with the recruitment of a new team to its Delta One index and ETF data division. The Delta One team spans technology, product management and sales across Netik’s three…
Asset Control Appoints Brooks Gibbins as VP Product and Strategy
Asset Control, provider of financial data management solutions and services, has announced the appointment of Brooks Gibbins as VP Product and Strategy. Mr. Gibbins will report to Phil Lynch, Asset Control’s CEO and President, and is responsible for product management, corporate strategy and business development. The appointment is made with immediate effect and will further…
Societe Generale Securities Services Commits to Providing Clients with Proposals for Managing Issue-Linked Events in Just 3 Hours
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has consolidated and developed its System for Management of Issue-Linked Events (SMILE) in order to provide enhanced middle office services to investment banks and issuers worldwide. This totally automated system allows SGSS’ dedicated teams, based in Luxembourg, to provide an issue-linked proposal within a record-breaking 3 hours of a request…
New Partner, Jon Exley, Joins KPMG Investment Advisory
Jon Exley, previously a partner within Mercer’s specialist Financial Strategy Group, is to join the Investment Advisory practice at KPMG in the UK as a partner in November this year. Jon Exley will become the third Partner in KPMG’s Investment Advisory practice, joining Patrick McCoy and Nick Evans. KPMG’s Investment Advisory practice comprises a 60…
Euroclear and Capital Precision Transform Equity Shareholder Identification
Capital Precision, part of global stakeholder relations firm King Worldwide, and Euroclear have today signed a co-operation agreement to centralise the provision of worldwide shareholder identification data to equity issuers in key markets. Capital Precision’s experience in obtaining comprehensive information on shareholder positions, through the application of its industry leading identification methodology, is complemented with…
Interactive Data Launches New Version of Market-Q
World Financial Information Conference, Booth #13 — Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of a suite of market data solutions for wealth management professionals and their clients, today announced the launch of Market-Q 3.5. This latest version of Interactive Data’s browser-based wealth management solution offers enhancements designed to extend wealth managers’ ability to provide timely,…
Fiserv’s Hanselman Discusses its Basel III Education Programme
Risk management solution vendor Fiserv has been engaging in an educational outreach programme with the financial services community regarding incoming regulatory developments such as Basel III. Reference Data Review speaks to Orlando Hanselman, education programmes director for risk and compliance solutions at Fiserv, about some of this work with board level execs “There is a great degree…
FISD Presents Lifetime Achievement Award to Joseph Kasputys
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) today announced that Dr. Joseph Kasputys, founder and former chairman, president and ceo of global information company IHS Global Insight, is the recipient of the fourth Market Data Lifetime Achievement Award. The honor recognizes leaders who have advanced the financial information…
Nasdaq OMX Preps UltraFeed – for Equities, Options and Futures
NYSE Euronext has SuperFeed, so it’s perhaps no surprise that rival Nasdaq OMX is planning next year to release UltraFeed – a consolidated feed of North American equities, options and futures trade and quote data. And it’s enlisted Quodd Financial Information Services as its first customer and redistributor. UltraFeed will be a normalised data feed…