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SunGard Hires Aloni to Head Data Management Technology
SunGard Data Management Solutions has named Ariel Aloni to lead design and direction of its technology strategy. Aloni was previously chief architect at Electronic Broking Services (EBS), an electronic interdealer broker in the foreign exchange marketplace. Before joining EBS, Aloni was director of data messaging at Merrill Lynch.
DTCC Aims to Automate Corporate Actions Liability Notifications
The U.S. Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched a pilot programme with 20 broker/dealers and custodian banks for a new web-based system that automates the creation, delivery and tracking of corporate actions liability notices. The snappily titled Smart/Track for Corporate Actions Liability Notification Service will be in a pilot phase until the end…
Rivero Departs from London Stock Exchange
Roberto Rivero has left the London Stock Exchange where he was responsible for new initiatives, most noteworthy of which was the exchange’s acquisition of Proquote, the exchange’s stockbrokerage information systems unit. Rivero was previously at Royalblue and before that Primark.
SunGard Upgrades Data Management Software
SunGard Data Management Solutions last month upgraded its data management software related to the distribution platform and data analysis toolkit. SunGard’s Web Services distribution platform accessPoint 1.5, which provides enterprise access to Fame and other relational data within referencePoint, has been enhanced to allow customers to output data to an extended set of formats. These…
Reuters Taps Bradshaw to Lead Integrated Enterprise Data
Kevin Bradshaw, head of enterprise data at Reuters, is expanding his responsibilities to include real-time data. The move is designed to leverage Reuters’ strong position in front-office data, as the market moves toward an ‘on-demand’ environment, with reference data consumers taking information when they need it rather than waiting for a fixed update time. A…
To Centralize or Not to Centralize
It’s always better to end with a bang than a whimper. So we were happy this month’s FIMA event in London gave the reference data community real pause for thought. Many industry events don’t deliver; this one did. Central to the three days of industry debate was the subject of, erm, centralization. In other words,…
Update: FTI & Integra’s GoldenSource Dashboard
Six months on from entering their collaborative deal Financial Technologies Inc. (FTI) and Integra SP are closing deals with two large customers for the GoldenSource Dashboard, and are reporting traction among mainly Tier 1 firms and some mid-tier firms. Meanwhile, FTI is considering rebranding the company to GoldenSource, following its rebranding x months ago of…
Standard & Poor’s Streamlines Sales, Data As Part of New Reference Data Strategy
Standard & Poor’s European group is streamlining its sales organization for reference and securities pricing services in a bid to provide clients with a single point of contact for many of its products. It is also working to integrate its data sets with the ultimate long-term aim of providing modular options on a common platform….
WM Datenservice Introduces Feed Access to Reference Data
German data agency WM Datenservice has over the last quarter introduced a data feed service to offer clients a greater degree of flexibility in accessing WM’s reference data and improved timeliness to near-real-time data delivery. The new Financial Object Feed (FOF) is in part a response to the growing trend within the German market of…
Sydbank Buys SmartStream Corporate Actions Software
Denmark’s fourth largest bank Sydbank has licensed SmartStream Technologies corporate actions processing software TLMR to automate its corporate actions processing. The solution will be implemented by Sydbank’s outsourced IT services provider Bankdata by mid-2005. TLMR automates front-to-back processing of mandatory and voluntary events, providing data capture from multiple sources, cleansing, processing and accounting services. Egon…