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Opinion: Proven Main Street Solution Proposed for Global Financial Identification

By Allan Grody and Bob Carpenter There is a business model in existence today that has been around for nearly four decades and that has solved the unique identification problem in the global commercial trade supply chain. Now in partnership with our respective firms, we are proposing to share this system with regulators and the…

Reliance on Data Vendors, Cost and Poor Data Quality Remain Hurdles to Transparency, Says City of London Paper on MiFID

As the MiFID review process rumbles on ahead of a potential sequel, more and more attention is being directed towards the data quality issues underlying the barriers to post-trade market transparency. On this note, the City of London’s recently published report into the impacts of MiFID (handily titled “Understanding the Impacts of MiFID”) indicates that…

Rongo Partners with Talend to Meet Real-time Data Demands

Rongo, the Finnish consulting company focused on information management, has partnered with Talend, an open source data management specialist, furthering its commitment to delivering the highest quality and cost effective tools to its customers. The company was established in 2006, and operates out of Espoo and Tampere. Rongo provides consulting and information management solutions, spanning…

Jeff Nason Joins Butterfield Fulcrum to Lead Global and Strategic Relationships

Asset management professional Jeff Nason has joined Butterfield Fulcrum, a leading top five independent fund services provider, as Managing Director, Global and Strategic Relationships. In this newly created position, he will be responsible for further developing Butterfield Fulcrum’s relationships with large, complex alternative asset fund groups. Based in the New York office, Mr. Nason will…

NYSE Technologies Announces Community Platform; IaaS Play for Capital Markets

With the announcement today of its Capital Markets Community Platform, NYSE Technologies is bringing cloud computing into the world of electronic trading and low latency. Well, kind of. Already an established provider of hosted, managed services, such as its Superfeed data feed, and its Risk Management Gateway for pre-trade risk controls, the vendor – a…

Omgeo Appoints Clare Fraser as Managing Director of Strategy

Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, today announced the appointment of Clare Fraser as managing director of strategy. In this role, Fraser will be responsible for driving Omgeo’s growth by identifying new market opportunities and overseeing the global marketing function, while providing strategic guidance on the firm’s business worldwide. Fraser is based in London…

Netik’s Mason Elaborates on Plans for CorrectNet Integration

In its first acquisition since its management shakeup last year, Netik recently bagged client reporting and data distribution focused vendor CorrectNet, in a move that aims to bolster its end to end data management capabilities. John Mason, who was appointed chief operating officer of the vendor in August last year, explains that the two vendors…

Project Brokers Signs Global Deal With Noad

Project Brokers, the global business intelligence (BI) consultancy, has signed a deal with NOAD, the leading provider of high-performance, enterprise platform management software, to become its only Global Services & Reseller Partner. The partnership brings NOAD’s market-leading enterprise change management software solutions into Project Brokers’ BI portfolio. NOAD’s EQM product suite supports QlikTech’s QlikView BI…

ISDA Releases 2011 Operations Benchmarking Survey Results

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) today announced the publication of its 2011 Operations Benchmarking Survey. This publication includes results from G14 respondents as of year-end 2010, and follows the release of survey highlights at ISDA’s 26th Annual General meeting in April. The survey notes the continuing decrease in confirmations outstanding, particularly among…

CFTC Plans 8 June Roundtable to Discuss Instrument Identification Standards

In keeping with its push to keep data standardisation high on the industry agenda and the establishment of a new regulator subcommittee on the subject earlier this month, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has indicated that it will be conducting a public roundtable on 8 June to discuss the technical aspects of the introduction…