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Berlanger Heads to Deutsche Bank, Bookheim Surfaces in Consultancy Role at Citi
Last week, Reference Data Review revealed that director in charge of data quality at Citi, Geert Berlanger was departing after five years with the firm. This week we can reveal he is headed to Deutsche Bank to take up the role of programme director for client business services, responsible for functions such as client onboarding. Citi, however,…
Pricing Partners Introduced a Quantitative Methodology to Generate Inflation Volatility Surface
Pricing Partners announced today that its Price-it library now includes analytical tools to estimate inflation volatility surface combining historical estimates and implied interest rates smiles surfaces. These analytical tools can provide reliable estimation of the smiled inflation surface on all major inflation indexes such as the European, French, Japanese, American or British HICP ones. This…
QCM Establishes Business Development Office in Tokyo
Quality Capital Management (‘QCM’), the UK-based systematic macro hedge fund manager, today announced that it has established an office in Tokyo, headed by Osamu Nishimura, Head of Business Development for Japan. The official opening of QCM’s office in Japan enables the firm to further develop its investor base in Japan and the wider Asia Pacific…
Cadis Forges Alliance with Targit in Germany
Cadis, the global EDM specialist, has certified its first set of graduates in Germany. targit, a German based consultancy firm, has received certification through the Cadis Centre of Excellence to efficiently install the Cadis EDM. targit adds to its credentials its work on the platform implementation at Baader Bank, Germany’s leading specialist in securities trading….
Investec Strengthens Project Finance Division with Senior Hire
Investec Capital Markets (‘Investec’), part of Investec Bank, has appointed Nigel Robinson to the Project and Infrastructure Finance team where he will work with Maurice Hochschild, Global Head, to build the equity and advisory business in the clean power sector. Nigel Robinson joins Investec from ING London’s Utilities team, where he spent seven years building…
CFTC Publishes Two New Data Sets on Daily Net Position Changes
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the release of two new data sets that add further transparency to commodity futures markets. The new reports, entitled “Large Trader Net Position Changes” and “Trading Account Net Position Changes,” build on the CFTC transparency program initiatives. The data and explanatory notes, as well as average…
New Headquarters For Exchange Data International
Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of securities corporate actions and reference data, today moves its headquarters from Hatton Garden, London’s diamond merchant area, to vibrant Old Street, now home to Britain’s IT industry. EDI’s new address is Churchill House, 5th floor, 142-146 Old Street, London EC1V 9BW. It occupies an excellent location in the…
Asset Control’s McGranaghan on the Data Vendor’s Partnership with Oracle
Asset Control is one of a number of vendors working with Oracle to benchmark its technology capabilities with a view to the vendors working closely together to improve the scalability and response times of EDM solution vendor’s platform. Reference Data Review speaks to Donal McGranaghan, senior vice president of product and development at Asset Control, about how…
Strange Bedfellows in Singapore?
Certainly in some people’s eyes. Or maybe just an example of pragmatism, co-operation and even industry standards at work. I speak of the rollout at the Singapore Exchange of pre-trade risk functionality in the form of the Risk Management Gateway from NYSE Technologies. And its soon to be hookup with the exchange’s new matching system,…
The Business Benefits of Lowering Latency – What Are They?
There’s much talk of late about whether investment in reducing latency is worth it. OK, that’s expressing this issue very simply, but for sure there is more focus on determining actual business benefits resulting from lowering latency, and the associated technology costs. One global investment bank turned to Sumerian to help them bridge business and…