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The World According to RDUG
Corporate Actions has rightfully been in the limelight of late. The RDUG Corporate Actions Working Group has just released an Interim White Paper with the assistance of both practitioners and suppliers which examines the benefits of automation and presents a breakthrough in mapping electronic document templates upstream to ISO 15022 messaging downstream, comments Dr Anthony…
SimCorp Promotes Crompton to U.K. MD; Gee to Sales Director
SimCorp has appointed Ian Crompton as managing director of its U.K. group, replacing Kjell Nordgard, who has returned to SimCorp’s head office in Denmark after five years in the U.K. Crompton has been sales director at SimCorp for nearly two years, and before that was regional sales director at Eagle Investment Systems. SimCorp has also…
FISD Confirms Davin Appointment as Atkin Replacement
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) industry group has officially announced the appointment of Thomas Davin as vice president, replacing Mike Atkin who had long held the position until his surprise departure near the end of last year. Davin, who spoke at December’s FIMA event in London on the FISD’s behalf, joins after 18 years…
Coexis Brings in Former ADP Wilco President Staines for U.S. Operations
Coexis has hired Roy Staines as managing director of its U.S. Operations. Staines was previously at ADP Brokerage Service Group, where he was managing director, responsible for strategic accounts and before that was president of ADP-Wilco.
Cicada Hires Mahoney, Promotes Schachne, Moves Bennett
Carole Mahoney has joined the sales team of data management technology firm Cicada in London. Mahoney joins from Soliton, where she was director of UK sales. Prior to that, she was with Reuters for 12 years in various sales marketing and product management roles. At Cicada, Mahoney will become vice president of European Sales reporting…
Kirby to Leave SmartStream Technologies at Month-End
Anthony Kirby will be leaving SmartStream Technologies at the end of this month to pursue other opportunities. Kirby joined a year ago as director of market management at SmartStream, reporting to chief executive officer Martin Brown. Prior to that Kirby worked at Deutsche Borse, Reuters, Swift, the former GSTPA, and Merrill Lynch. Kirby is also…
Automatic instrument opening from Avaloq for Bank Sarasin & Co.
The data management platform of AIM Software, the GAIN DataDesktop, was the key for Swiss private bankers Bank Sarasin & Co. to enable the automation of opening instruments directly in their Avaloq banking application, writes AIM Software.Bank Sarasin & Co., a Basel-based private bank with a strong international focus, has been using the data management…
Vitria Upgrades BusinessWare Platform
California-based Vitria has upgraded its Vitria:BusinessWare 4.3 data management platform. The company has added new facilities in XML processing, trading partner integration, web services and business process management. The upgrade also features new modeling tools for handling exceptions and facilitating straight through processing.
… While Asset Control Adds CB.Net SSIs; S&P Ratings
Asset Control has added new content sets in deals with CB.Net and Standard & Poors. It follows Omicronn and ACE (Reference Data Review, November 2004) in integrating CB.Net’s BankSearchPlus international payments directory into its AC Plus data management system. Ken Payne, director of sales and marketing at Asset Control, says, “Our customers have expressed strong…
Citadel Investment Group Implements Asset Control’s AC Plus…
Asset Control’s data management solution AC Plus has been implemented at Citadel Investment Group. The Chicago-based alternative investments firm considered a range of vendors including Cicada, Factset, Mercator, SunGard Data Management Systems, and Soliton. The deployment includes significant new enhancements co-developed by the two firms. These include an extension and streamlining of the data model…