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Capco Adds Chelliah, Bennett to Team
Capco has brought onboard two new executives. Gopi Chelliah has been named partner and executive vice president, business process outsourcing and sourcing development, based in London. He will also be a key member of Capco’s Executive Management Committee and the Capco Transformation client services team. Chelliah joins from Deutsche Bank where he was managing director,…
U.S. Bancorp Fund Services Picks Eagle’s Pace, Ref Data Manager
Eagle Investment Systems has secured U.S. Bancorp Fund Services (USBFS) as a client for its Eagle Pace and Portal services, as well as Eagle Reference Manager to underpin the solutions with securities data validation and exception workflow. These products will be used at USBFS, which provides its mutual fund clients with a range of administration…
Fortis Restructuring Sees Deschênes Named CIO
As part of Belgium-based Fortis’ restructuring, Alain Deschênes has been appointed chief information officer, responsible for providing vision, strategy, leadership and management to information systems and technology across Fortis’ banking and insurance operations. He will report to Herman Verwilst, deputy CEO and chief operating officer. Joining his team is Jean-Pierre Cardinael as chief technology officer,…
CSFB Latest Firm to Use DTCC’s Corporate Actions Service
Credit Suisse First Boston has become the sixth company to sign up for the Global Corporate Actions Validation Service from the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Joseph Porcello, director of asset servicing for CSFB in the U.S., says, “By signing on to GCA Validation, we’re looking to eliminate the time-consuming, manual process of reconciling…
Shipperlee Rejoins S&P as European MD for Risk Solutions
Stuart Shipperlee is rejoining Standard & Poor’s as its new European managing director for the Risk Solutions division, based in London. Shipperlee, who will report to Gary Kearns, global leader for Credit Risk Services, was previously managing director of European operations for U.S. insurance ratings agency AM Best, and before that spent 10 years at…
Bear Stearns to Implement GemStone For Risk Data Latency
Bear Stearns plans to implement GemFire Enterprise from data infrastructure company GemStone to manage in-memory data across its enterprise applications, initially focused on Global Clearing and Settlement Risk Analytics as well as Program Trading. Bear Stearns realised its daily batch-oriented risk reporting was coming under strain as trading volumes increased and regulatory requirements became more…
CCMA Evaluates Lack of Timely Access to ISINs in Canada
The issue of timely access to ISIN securities identifiers in Canada is now being evaluated by the Canadian Capital Markets Association’s (CCMA) Institutional Program Steering Committee. The CCMA has been identifying problems holding up straight through processing and has highlighted asset and counterparty identification as presenting the biggest issues. ISINs are currently issued in Canada…
AIM Teams Up with Xen for Asian Data Management Solution
Reference data management firm AIM Software has teamed up with Xen Business Solutions to provide an integrated solution between Xen’s treasury and portfolio management system and AIM’s Gain DataDesktop. The aim, say the companies, is to manage the “full lifecycle of data capture, cleansing, consolidation, enrichment and storage of reference, price and corporate actions data…
LaSalle Expands Corporate Actions Deal with XSP
LaSalle Bank, a Midwest U.S. bank owned by ABN Amro, has expanded its license of XcitekSolutionsPlus (XSP) for end-to-end automation of corporate actions processing for another five years. The deal, originally signed in 1999, will now run through 2010. The extension includes the addition of an ISO messaging module as well as eTran for web-based…
Capco Targets Canada
Capco is targeting the Canadian market, opening new offices in Toronto, Ontario, Montreal and Quebec under Jos Schmitt, managing partner for Canadian operations, and head of the Market Infrastructure practice. Capco recently completed a study for the Canadian Capital Markets Association (CCMA), highlighting possible enhancements for the post-trade processing of institutional trades. Making up the…