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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…
EDM Council Board of Directors Elect Citi’s Bottega Chairman
Fifteen global financial services institutions have elected to join the EDM Council’s board of directors. As part of the expansion, the new board has elected John Bottega, chief data officer, Citi Markets & Banking, as its chairman. Bottega succeeds Mike Meriton, CEO, GoldenSource, and founding member of the EDM Council in the role of chairman….
CB.Net Adds SCT Data to BankSearchPlus
The European Payments Council (EPC) SEPA Credit Transfer Adherence Register of Participants is now available in CB.Net’s BankSearchPlus and in The S€PA Directory service it launched in partnership with LogicaCMG. CB.Net was chosen by the EPC to provide and manage the centralised repository for the EPC SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) and SEPA Direct Debit (SDD)…
CMA Names Paul Vickery Director, Support, Client Services
CMA, provider of credit information, has appointed Paul Vickery as director of support and client services, with a brief to enhance the service CMA provides to its global client base. Vickery joins CMA from GFI, where he was global support and professional services manager.
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…