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A-Team Analysis: Future of IBEI in Question as Eight Countries Vote it Down; Could the BIC Be the Answer?
The results of the second ballot among national markets on ISO 16372 International Business Entity Identifier (IBEI) are in – and with eight countries voting against and six for (plus three abstentions and four no votes), the future’s not looking very bright for the standard. That said, as one industry observer puts it, “it’s not dead…
Interactive Data Restructures in a Bid to Meet Demand for Cross-Enterprise Data Solutions
Interactive Data’s recent restructuring is designed to enable it to “walk the talk” of its “one company” image, according to Ray D’Arcy, its president of sales and marketing, under whom the previously separate Pricing and Reference Data and Real-Time Services sales, client relationship management and client service organisations will now be unified. “Our company has…
Markit Names Sally Clarke Global Head of Marketing
Markit, provider of independent data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing, has appointed Sally Clarke as global head of marketing. Prior to joining Markit, Clarke worked at SunGard for seven years in various marketing roles.
Brandes Investment Partners Licenses XSP
Brandes Investment Partners, a global investment advisory firm with $125 billion in assets under management, has licensed the XSP solution for global corporate actions processing.
GoldenSource Appoints Hugh Stewart VP of Sales, EMEA and Asia
EDM solutions provider GoldenSource has hired Hugh Stewart as vice president of sales of EMEA and Asia, reporting to Neil Vanlint, senior vice president, client operations, EMEA and Asia. Most recently, Stewart served as founder and director of Oroboros, an investment and commercial banking consultancy and advisory company focused on risk management, derivatives and commercial…
Quantifi Selected by III Associates for Valuations
Hedge fund manager III Associates has integrated the Quantifi Toolkit into its systems for end-of-day valuations of its structured credit portfolios. Quantifi Toolkit is a model library for structured credit pricing and risk analysis and contains a full suite of market tested and validated models. Coverage includes credit derivatives products and bespoke structures including: CDS,…
Citadel Gets New CEO, Peter Little
As reported in Reference Data Review‘s sister title A-Team IQ this quarter, buy side focused EDM vendor Citadel has a new investor and CEO – Peter Little. Little’s arrival follows the departure of former managing director Jean Williams, after a disagreement between her and the other Citadel directors about the future direction of the company. Little…
Xenomorph Delivers Derivatives Data Management For SGSS Asset Servicing
Xenomorph, real-time analytics and data management solutions provider, has signed a five-year agreement with the asset servicing department at Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS), under which the latter will use Xenomorph’s TimeScape production data management system for its derivatives operations. SGSS’ asset servicing department will use TimeScape to create a single, consistent and centralised source…
LakeFront Data Ventures Adds Associates, Touts Service-Oriented Data Management Approach
The progress of LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV), the specialist data management consultancy led by former SunGard EDM man Dale Richards, appears to be gathering pace. Richards reports that the company has “been engaged by a number of players across the whole ecosystem” – including a major Wall Street bank, a large Canadian pension fund, a major…
London Stock Exchange Enters Reconciliation Game With UnaVista
The London Stock Exchange has launched UnaVista, a global data integration, validation, matching and reconciliation service, designed to help firms identify inconsistencies across any data type. The core of the service is a rules-based engine that enables data to be reconciled from any source and across any business function. UnaVista can be deployed in two…