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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….
Reuters DataScope Select Adds Complinet Screening Capability
Complinet has signed a global contract with Reuters that will allow Reuters DataScope Select users to screen selected entities against international sanctions lists, watch lists and other information that can help them comply with counterparty and Know Your Customer regulations. The deal follows the recent tie-in between the two companies that established Complinet as Reuters’…
Markit Completes Integration Of ABSReports Data Services
Following its acquisition of deal reporting service ABSReports at the beginning of the year (Reference Data Review, January 2007), Markit, provider of data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing, has launched what it says is the first integrated pricing and performance monitoring service for the European asset-backed securities (ABS) market in a move it…
The Chief Data Officer: Here to Stay or Just a Flash in the Pan?
Remember when the acronym CDO referred to collateralized debt obligations, a fancy type of credit derivative? Well, think again. CDOs are now chief data officers, C-level executives charged with the corporate ‘ownership’ of a firm’s data assets (although quite where that leaves chief information officers isn’t yet clear….). The implication is that CDOs sit with…
Reuters’ New JRisk On Demand Offering Packages Broad Coverage of Evaluations, Terms and Conditions
Reuters’ new JRisk On Demand, a tailored risk management solution for hedge funds developed by the Applied Networks unit that it acquired last year, not only delivers real-time risk management tools directly to individual managers’ desktops, but aims to provide “enormous” cost benefits to clients through access to Reuters reference and terms and conditions data. …