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PolarLake, CounterpartyLink Forge Alliance as PolarLake Adds Business Analyst Integration
Provider of reference data distribution products PolarLake and client and legal entity data specialist CounterpartyLink have entered into an alliance with the aim of better meeting the needs of mutual clients and prospects. John Randles, CEO of PolarLake, says while the PolarLake RDD (Reference Data Distribution) product “works with all forms of reference data”, the…
Swift Shifts Reference Data Strategy Personnel
Swift has made some changes to the personnel handling its reference data strategy. The co-operative has appointed Paolo Bernini head of information products of which reference data is an important component, it says. Peter O’Keefe meanwhile has moved from product management to markets, with responsibility for defining Swift’s reference data strategy – with a particular…
We’re loud and we’re proud
In preparing for our excellent and very well received Reference Data Review @ FIMA online daily news service for the FIMA 2007 event in London earlier this month, we interviewed some of the data management movers and shakers who were set to speak at the conference to find out how they were feeling about the…
Reuters Will Leverage RMDS Installed Base, Software Partners, to Secure Growth of New EDM Platform
Reuters has set some aggressive growth targets for the Reuters Enterprise Platform (REP) – launched officially at Sibos in Boston earlier this month, and envisaged as a complete enterprise data management solution. According to Gary Barr, its global head of EDM, one client is live already, and a second is expected to be live by the…
CounterpartyLink Provides Legal Entity Data to Alacra, Joins Money Transfer Networks Association
Alacra, a provider of online business information solutions, has signed an alliance agreement with CounterpartyLink, supplier of global client, counterparty and issuer legal entity reference data. Through this alliance agreement, Alacra’s Concordance and Compliance customers will have access to CounterpartyLink’s full list of maintained reference data. This data is collected from sources, and maintained to…
A-Team Analysis: Future of IBEI in Question as Eight Countries Vote it Down; Could the BIC Be the Answer?
The results of the second ballot among national markets on ISO 16372 International Business Entity Identifier (IBEI) are in – and with eight countries voting against and six for (plus three abstentions and four no votes), the future’s not looking very bright for the standard. That said, as one industry observer puts it, “it’s not dead…
Interactive Data Restructures in a Bid to Meet Demand for Cross-Enterprise Data Solutions
Interactive Data’s recent restructuring is designed to enable it to “walk the talk” of its “one company” image, according to Ray D’Arcy, its president of sales and marketing, under whom the previously separate Pricing and Reference Data and Real-Time Services sales, client relationship management and client service organisations will now be unified. “Our company has…
Markit Names Sally Clarke Global Head of Marketing
Markit, provider of independent data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing, has appointed Sally Clarke as global head of marketing. Prior to joining Markit, Clarke worked at SunGard for seven years in various marketing roles.
Brandes Investment Partners Licenses XSP
Brandes Investment Partners, a global investment advisory firm with $125 billion in assets under management, has licensed the XSP solution for global corporate actions processing.
GoldenSource Appoints Hugh Stewart VP of Sales, EMEA and Asia
EDM solutions provider GoldenSource has hired Hugh Stewart as vice president of sales of EMEA and Asia, reporting to Neil Vanlint, senior vice president, client operations, EMEA and Asia. Most recently, Stewart served as founder and director of Oroboros, an investment and commercial banking consultancy and advisory company focused on risk management, derivatives and commercial…