Data Management Insight Blogs The latest content from across the platform
Catherine Downhill Joins Fitch Ratings’ Global Business Development Team
Fitch Ratings has appointed Catherine Downhill as commercial director for Fitch’s Valuspread and Market Implied Ratings services. She joined Fitch on Monday December 10 and reports to Thomas Aubrey, managing director in Fitch’s Global Business Development team, London. Prior to joining Fitch, Downhill was most recently business manager for equity and fixed income evaluated pricing…
Omgeo Hires Matthew Nelson, Fritz McCormick to Research New Areas of Growth
Omgeo, the Thomson Financial/DTCC-owned provider of post-trade, pre-settlement services, has hired Fritz McCormick as data business director and Matthew Nelson as director, market intelligence. McCormick comes from GoldenSource where he was vice president of business development and alliances, and prior to that he worked at analyst Celent. Nelson comes from analyst TowerGroup, and counts a…
Taking the Risk Out of Mutual Fund Compliance By Jeff Levering, Vice President, NewRiver
Selling a mutual fund requires complex mutual fund information to be summarised down into data that sellers can understand, which is most often driven by a technology or data warehouse infrastructure. Missing and/or bad mutual fund data is nothing new, but it has recently garnered the attention of regulators as it was directly responsible for…
Former Citadel Execs Jean Williams, Rick Enfield Join Asset Control in London, New York
As exclusively reported by Reference Data Review @ FIMA earlier this month, data management solutions provider Asset Control has hired two former executives of buy side data management systems specialist Citadel Associates. Rick Enfield and Jean Williams have joined Asset Control as product business owners of Asset Control’s AC Plus and TAPMaster solutions respectively. Enfield…
S&P Emphasises Co-ordinated Relationship with Asset Control as More of its Feeds are Integrated to AC Plus
Standard & Poor’s is trumpeting the availability of feed handlers to integrate a range of its data services into Asset Control’s AC Plus solution. The integration is, says S&P, a demonstration of its strong and well co-ordinated relationship with the data management systems vendor, which should serve to reassure mutual clients that they will not…
‘Assume Role of Vendor’ to Ensure Rigour in Applying Data Licences, State Street’s John White tells FIMA
A clear and thorough understanding of precisely how data is utilised within investment firms, tied to “differentiating” data usage, is essential before data licensing can be effectively and successfully embarked upon, John White, principal data management, State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), has contended. Knowing “upfront” what is explicitly covered within contracts signed with data vendors…
Now is the Time for Reference Data Collaboration, TowerGroup Says. But is it Really?
When it comes to reference data, TowerGroup has something of a reputation for spotting a trend just as it is about to become a major industry focus. Statistics from the analyst’s first major report on the subject in 2001 and its updated iteration in 2005 are still liberally cited by industry commentators in print and…
Keep Your Data Vendors Close and Your Users Closer, Deutsche Bank EDM Head Says
Success in enterprise data management (EDM) programmes is dependent on education – of internal users, of data vendors and of the EDM team itself. So said Jim McCarthy, EDM programme manager at Deutsche Bank, speaking at FIMA 2007 in London earlier this month. “It’s a constant for us to ensure we can describe our data,…
Citi’s Bottega Pitches Office of Data Management as Solution to EDM Organisational Challenge
Enterprise data management (EDM) is “real and here”, but is there enough understanding of how to organise EDM programmes within firms to ensure they can be successful at it? This was the key question raised by John Bottega, chief data officer at Citi Markets & Banking, during his now regular keynote slot at FIMA, which…
Telekurs Adds Zacks Earnings Estimates to Reference, Market Data Products
Telekurs Financial now features new analysis and fundamental data from supplier Zacks Investment Research. Data from this information provider has been integrated into Telekurs Financial’s market and reference data products. Telekurs Financial’s products will carry quarterly and annual earnings estimates for around 4500 companies domiciled in the US and Canada, provided by Zacks Investment. Zacks…