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Telekurs Financial Partners with Bondweb Malaysia for Fair Value Pricing
Telekurs Financial has signed an agreement with Bondweb Malaysia, the country’s only current bond pricing agency, to integrate Bondweb’s fair value prices into Telekurs’ Valordata Feed (VDF) and Intraday Pricing Service (IPS). Bondweb Malaysia has been offering fair values for approximately 2,000 fixed income bonds traded in ringgit since 2005.The deal with the Malaysian agency…
Cusip Global Services Launches Premium Level Cusip Access Modules and New Service for European Syndicated Loans
Cusip Global Services has launched two new services: a premium level version of Cusip Access for clients that require more advanced options for managing reference data and a new platform through which European agent banks can request Cusip or ISIN identifiers. Cusip Access is now available as a “premium level service” with additional functionality and…
LakeFrontData Appoints Spensieri VP of Sales and Business Development
Recently merged EDM vendor LakeFrontData has appointed data services veteran Tony Spensieri as vice president of sales and business development. Prior to his appointment, Spensieri’s most recent position was vice president, financial services, at Siperian, where he was responsible for the overall strategic direction, growth, and management of the vendor’s product and solution offerings to…
DataDirect Technologies Reveals Strategic Plans to Create Data Architecture Platform
Data connectivity and mainframe integration vendor DataDirect Technologies has indicated that it is in the process of developing an integrated platform to tie together its various data products. The vendor is currently mid-way through the development process and hopes to launch the platform near the end of this year. Anthony Swindells, fellow and senior programme…
New-York Based Broker Selects XSP for Corporate Actions
An unnamed global broker dealer based in New York has licensed the XSP v5 platform for global corporate actions processing and is also in the process of rolling out the corporate actions software provider’s web-based eTRAN (Electronic Tracking Response and Notifications) and XSP ISO messaging modules for automated notification, response capture and elections processing. According…
Moody’s Investors Service Appoints Kimball Interim Structured Finance Head
Moody’s Investors Service has announced the appointment of Andrew Kimball as the acting head of its global Structured Finance business, following the departure of Noel Kirnon at the end of this month. According to Moody’s, a search for a permanent head of the division is underway. In the interim period, Richard Cantor will assume acting…
Fitch Solutions Launches Risk and Performance Platform
Fitch Solutions has launched Fitch Risk and Performance Platform, a new platform providing market-based credit risk analytics, credit default swap (CDS) pricing and fundamental ratings content. It is an extension of Fitch’s market implied ratings platform and incorporates new tools for quickly reviewing credit entity performance within a user’s portfolio. According to the vendor, which…
Coexis Doubles Workforce and Serisys Opens Two More Offices
London and New York-based Coexis has doubled its workforce over the last year to 100 employees and its Asian partner Serisys has opened two more offices in the APAC region as part of its plans to increase global coverage. According to the vendor the increase in staffing is a result of demand for its Syn~…
SmartStream names Mason UK Director and Moves Cummings to APAC
SmartStream Technologies has appointed John Mason as UK regional director to replace Richard Cummings as he moves to head the firm’s Asia Pacific operations. Prior to joining SmartStream, Mason was managing director, EMEA for Capco Reference Data Service, which was bought by Netik earlier this year, and has held management positions with BCS, Aleri and…
Netik Launches New Managed Service for Reference and Market Data
Following its purchase of Capco Reference Data Services (CRDS) and restructure earlier this year, Netik has launched a new solution for the management of the end-to-end lifecycle of reference and market data and stepped into the outsourced service provider arena. Dubbed Netik Global Securities Master (Netik GSM), the new offering is based on a combination…