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Corero Wins New Deal For Radica CAPS Corporate Actions System
Corero, the former Mondas, has received a number of orders totalling more than £270,000 from an undisclosed major investment bank. They include a licence for a module of Radica CAPS, which forms part of a delayed previously announced order, as well as associated professional services and maintenance over the next four years. It will be…
Paladyne Names Simmonds to Head Europe
Paladyne Systems has named David Simmonds, formerly of Misys to head its new London Office.
Barclays Global Investors, BBH Exchange FpML Messages over Swiftnet
Barclays Global Investors and Brown Brothers Harriman have become the first asset manager and custodian to exchange FpML (Financial products Markup Language) based contract notifications over Swiftnet. Soon after, State Street, on behalf of PIMCO and other buy-side customers, began testing FpML communication with Bank of New York, Mellon Bank, Northern Trust and State Street…
PolarLake Apponts Brazel as Chairman
PolarLake has appointed Patrick Brazel, an industry veteran of 25 years, as chairman. Brazel is also chairman of GoldTier.
Rimes Technologies Adds Russell Global Indexes As a Data Partner
Rimes Technologies, an integrator of financial information services, has added Russell Global Indexes to its portfolio of data partners. This family of global stock indexes, comprising of more than 10,000 securities divided into a family of indexes which cover 22 regions and 63 countries, is now available through Rimes’ integration platform, offering a set of…
Williams Departs as U.K. MD of Citadel Associates
Jean Williams, U.K. managing director of buy side data management solutions vendor Citadel Associates, is no longer with the company. At press time, her whereabouts could not be ascertained.
Bloomberg Adds Pricing, Risk Data from NumeriX
Bloomberg has made NumeriX’s pricing and risk analytics available to users of its Bloomberg Professional service, via a select set of Bloomberg Professional calculators. In collaboration with Bloomberg, NumeriX has developed a fully integrated and enhanced version of NumeriX 6, its flagship pricing and structuring application, dubbed the NumeriX Bloomberg Edition. The Bloomberg version features…
Buzzelli to Depart Mellon to Join Reuters
Brian Buzzelli, who has led Mellon Financial’s foray into provision and management of reference data as part of its securities administration services offerings, is leaving the custody bank to join Reuters’ enterprise data group as part of the DataScope team. Further details weren’t available at press time.
Quantifi Achieves Markit Alliance Partner Certification
Quantifi has received Certified Alliance Partner status under Markit’s certification programme. The Markit Alliance certification program was launched earlier on this year to ensure the technical integration of Markit’s data services by third party vendors. Quantifi received this certification after demonstrating that its integration of CDS, CDS Indices, RED (Reference Entity Database) and Tranche data…
Koch Quits Telekurs Just Weeks after Assuming New Marketing Policy Role
Telekurs Financial veteran Beat Koch has decided to leave the company. Koch most recently was head of the Swiss vendor’s global marketing policies & project function, a role he assumed under a major reorganization this spring. Before that, he was head of Telekurs Financial’s U.K. operating subsidiary and had led other subsidiaries in the past….