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SEI’s Ventura Joins LakeFront’s Partner Programme
Edward Ventura has joined the LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV) data management partner programme as a LakeFront associate partner. He will be focusing on expanding the LDV reference data consulting business. Most recently Ventura was senior product manager of asset data services for SEI, where he led the strategy and sourcing for redistribution and consumption of…
… While Telekurs’ Newbury Jumps Ship to Barclays Global Investors
Richard Newbury, formerly head of product management at Telekurs UK, has started his new role in the knowledge team at Barclays Global Investors.
Telekurs Fills Long-Vacant UK MD Role as Cole Joins from CounterpartyLink…
Martin Cole has joined Telekurs UK as managing director, taking a position that has been unfilled since early last year. Cole comes from legal entity data specialist CounterpartyLink, where he was head of sales and marketing. He brings 20 plus years of experience in the industry, including a stint as managing director, UK and Ireland,…
GoldenSource’s McCormick Follows Lind to Omgeo
Omgeo, the Thomson Financial/DTCC-owned provider of post-trade, pre-settlement services including Alert for standing settlement instructions (SSIs), has hired Fritz McCormick as data business director. McCormick comes from GoldenSource, where he was vice president of business development and alliances. Prior to that he worked at analyst Celent. McCormick is responsible for the evolution of Omgeo’s data…
Existing Regulation Could Spur On Corporate Actions STP, Aite Predicts
The lack of an explicit regulatory imperative to address the efficiency of corporate actions processing is often cited as a reason for the industry’s lack of progress towards this goal. While it’s true that efforts like Giovannini do include corporate actions, there is no specific directive or legislation that demands firms meet a standard for…
Reuters Adds Hourly Corporate Actions Updates to Meet Algo Trading-Driven Need for Timely Event Data
Reuters has added an enhancement to Reuters DataScope Select which will see its corporate actions data updated hourly, rather than once a day. Users will be able to monitor portfolios more actively by choosing how often they receive updates and paying according to the quantity of data they use, Reuters says. The release of the…
Interactive Data’s Ian Blance Takes OTC Derivatives Valuations Experience to OTC Val Strategic Sales Role
Vancouver-based provider of independent valuations for derivatives and complex products OTC Valuations Limited (OTC Val) has marked a concerted push into the European marketplace and an ambition to grow worldwide with the hire of Ian Blance, recently ex of Interactive Data (Reference Data Review @ FIMA, November 5 2007), as vice president of strategic sales….
A-Team Analysis: Can S&P Solve the Problem of Entity Identification Where the ISO Process Has Failed?
Another month, another twist in the tail of the International Business Entity Identifier (IBEI) story. In fact, there could be two twists this month if the Swift CIVIC initiative does turn out to be on the skids. As reported extensively in Reference Data Review last year (in the October 2007 issue among others), the ISO-led…
Swift Admits CIVIC Plans “Under Review”, as Observers Suggest Business Case Proving Difficult
As Reference Data Review went to press, it emerged that Swift could be having second thoughts about pressing ahead with previously-announced plans to allocate BIC-like codes to funds – dubbed CIVICs (Reference Data Review first brought to light Swift’s CIVIC plans as far back as September 2006). In light of the failure of the ISO…
Interactive Data Provides Daily Evaluations for GNMA Serial Notes
Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data business has begun providing daily evaluations for Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) Serial Notes backed by 100 per cent Puerto Rico collateral, based on its experience in producing evaluations for global fixed income instruments. Interactive Data will initially provide evaluations for nearly 37,000 Serial Notes, and plans to…