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The acquisition by Markit of Swapswire garnered considerable attention by virtue simply of being the latest in a seemingly never-ending stream of acquisitions by the data and valuations provider. True to form, with this venture Markit puts itself at the leading edge of the capital markets’ preoccupation – improving the automation of OTC derivatives. In…
A-Team Analysis: Time to Look for Alternatives to ISO for Standards?
Unrest among industry participants about the efficacy of ISO standards creation is reaching a peak as the failure of the formal process to keep pace with the reality of market requirements looks set to prompt a rethink about the best way to create standards for financial markets. Whether there is a better method for solving…
Tony Kirby Trades in Accenture for Ernst & Young
Tony Kirby has left Accenture – which he joined to work in its data management and managed reference data services business, but where he ultimately spearheaded much of the consultancy’s MiFID work – to join Ernst & Young as head of regulation and compliance.
Patent Pending Ref Data Utility Offers Risk Mitigation, Seeks Backers
The inventors of an ambitious plan to create a risk mitigating Reference Data Utility for the securities industry are entering a new phase of marketing for their business venture in the belief that financial institutions can be galvanised by the lure of reduced capital and collateral requirements into solving once and for all the age-old…
Laura Martinez of XSP Elected Vendor Co-Chair of ISITC Corporate Actions Working Group
XSP’s Laura Martinez, principal product manager, has been elected as vendor co-chair of the ISITC Corporate Actions Working Group. In this position, Martinez will collaborate with the group’s co-chairs and members to review ISO 15022 standards and direct enhancements to message content that promote STP for corporate actions. Martinez has been an active participant of…
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…