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BNP Paribas Securities Services Live on ValueLink OTC Data

BNP Paribas Securities Services has gone live with an outsourced OTC derivatives data service from ValueLink. The service became operational in December, and since then ValueLink has been working with BNP Paribas to fine-tune reporting based on the requirements of the fund administrator’s own clients, according to the vendor’s operations director Trevor Beach. ValueLink’s outsourced…

S&P, ICAP Ally to Add Trade Data to Evaluated Prices

Standard & Poor’s has teamed with interdealer broker ICAP to offer ICAP’s pricing data on a range of instruments via MasterFeed, its consolidated securities reference data and end-of-day pricing feed service. This will enable the data vendor to provide its clients with both trade data and evaluated prices via a single feed, says JR Rieger,…

Northern Rock Signs Three-Year Deal with CounterpartyLink

The UK’s Northern Rock has entered into a three-year agreement to take legal entity data from CounterpartyLink. The deal includes additional data from CounterpartyLink’s new version, 1.4, enhanced to support clients in complying with the Third EU Money Laundering Directive and MiFID (Reference Data Review, March 2007). The data will initially be used in the…

A-Team Group Scores James Hartley as VP of Research

A-Team Group has hired James Hartley as vice president of research. Prior to joining A-Team, Hartley spent four years as chief technologist at the Software Information Industry Association/Financial Information Services Division (SIIA/FISD). While there, he developed and supported MDDL – the Market Data Definition Language – and facilitated the global conversation on securities processing automation….

Japan’s SPARX Group Live on GAIN, AIM Reports More POCs

Tokyo-based asset manager SPARX Group has implemented the GAIN data management platform from Austria’s AIM Software in a project lasting just 10 days. GAIN is handling Asian equities data from Bloomberg and data from the local Japanese Toyo Keizai feed, and ultimately SPARX may deploy GAIN as a centralised data hub across its operations. According…

CMA Bags Investment Banking Veteran Jav Bose for QuoteVision

CMA, the credit information specialist, has named Jav Bose as director of product management for CMA’s price discovery service, CMA QuoteVision. Bose has nearly 20 years’ experience in trading and technology, working for investment banks including Calyon, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, UBS and HSBC.

AIM Adds EDI, Reuters DataScope Select to GAIN

AIM Software has released version 4.0 of its GAIN financial data management platform. The latest release offers a golden copy management platform with functionality for data scrubbing, control and improvement of data quality and standardization of reference data and pricing data, and adds two additional financial data feeds: EDI and Reuters DataScope Select.

… As IDC Hires Andrew McLean as VP, Third Party Content

Interactive Data Corporation has appointed Andrew McLean vice president of third party content. McLean, most recently global head, third party content at Reuters, will be responsible for developing and leading global data procurement and vendor and exchange relationships across Interactive Data.

ReferenceDataFactory Unveils Extendable Integration Data Model

ReferenceDataFactory has released the RDF Integration Data Model, the result of three years’ development. The new data model provides a standard business view of data across all asset types in a business centric representation. The RDF Integration Data Model is extendable, and can expose data through XML via messaging or web services or through a…

Steven Crane Resigns from Interactive Data…

Steven Crane, president of Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data business, has resigned to accept a position as chief financial officer of a publicly traded, Massachusetts-based company outside the financial information industry. Stuart Clark, Interactive Data’s president and chief executive officer, will temporarily assume Crane’s position as president of the company’s Pricing and Reference…