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… While GoldenSource Names Peter Leichsenring Head of Central and Southern European Sales
Enterprise Data Management solutions provider GoldenSource Corporation has named Peter Leichsenring head of sales for Central and Southern Europe, focusing on Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain and Italy. Initially recruited to the company in December 2004 to build a channel sales programme, Leichsenring previously ran channel and alliance programmes at Tibco Software.
New Cusip Now Service Delivers Free 15 Minute Updates
The Standard & Poor’s Cusip Service Bureau has unveiled Cusip Now, an issue alert service available free to all licensed Cusip customers from December. Cusip Now uses push technology to deliver new Cusip issues and reference data to market participants every 15 minutes. The service delivers Cusip data via FTP downloads to client databases and…
Peter O’Keefe to Execute Swift’s Securities Reference Data Strategy
Peter O’Keefe, formerly of Nomura, has been appointed manager of Swift’s Security Reference Data Group, with a brief to execute on the co-operative’s strategy for securities reference data.
Siperian, CounterpartyLink Partner on Legal Entity Data Management
California based Siperian has forged an alliance with CounterpartyLink under which CounterpartyLink’s global legal entity data can be fed directly into Siperian’s counterparty master data management solution Siperian Hub. According to the partners, this alliance will support financial institutions’ efforts to comply with anti-money laundering, know your customer and Basel II regulations as well as…
Rick Enfield Joins Citadel Associates from Charles River Development
Citadel Associates has hired Rick Enfield as head of North American operations, responsible for professional services, support, training and administration. Enfield comes from Charles River Development, where he was director of the product management group. Prior to that he was a vice president at State Street.
AIM, Reuters Automate Reference Data for Corporates
AIM Software and Reuters are offering a reference data service for corporates. Reuters feeds its FX, swaps and interest rates information into AIM’s GAIN platform, while AIM delivers the data in a format which can be downloaded into mySAP ERP.
AXA IM Initiates Counterparty Phase of Reference Data Project
Having selected Capco as business service provider and CounterpartyLink as data provider, AXA Investment Managers has kicked off the third party client data phase of its ongoing reference data project. Analysis is under way at the firm into the approach to take in the next phase of the project, focusing on securities data. But despite…
Lloyds TSB Adopts AC Plus For Complex Products
The UK’s Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets has begun a phased implementation of Asset Control’s AC Plus centralized data management solution to assist its provision of complex products to clients. According to the vendor, AC Plus is replacing a number of spreadsheet based applications and will be used to support expanded daily trading activity, manage risk…
FT Interactive Data Rolls Out Markit Independent Loan Valuations
FT Interactive Data has entered the third phase of its roll-out of data from Markit Group to its clients, under its established partnership with the vendor. FT Interactive Data clients can now access independent valuations of syndicated bank loans via its FTS online portfolio administration service. Markit’s single name CDS and CDS indices data is…
Reuters Trumpets Early Signings For Asian Evaluations Service
Reuters reports strong levels of interest in its recently launched Asian fixed-income evaluated pricing service, and says it has already signed up users. The service covers six currencies – the Australian dollar, the Hong Kong dollar, the Japanese yen, the new Taiwan dollar, the New Zealand dollar and the Singapore dollar – and some 20,000…