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CMA DataVision CDS Prices Available Via Sophis VALUE
Sophis has developed an interface to enable users of its VALUE buy side platform to have direct access to CMA DataVision, CMA’s same day closing credit default swap (CDS) prices. Meanwhile, CMA has announced that its price discovery service CMA QuoteVision can now parse Loan Credit Default Swaps (LCDS) quotes. The LCDS enhancement to CMA…
Jordan & Jordan Hires Neil Edelstein as Director and Reference Data Specialist
Jordan & Jordan’s Management Consulting Practice has appointed Neil Edelstein as director and reference data specialist. Edelstein joins Jordan & Jordan from Accenture where he was a senior manager of data management services.
European Firms to Spend €€30m on CA Data Scrubbing by 2010
Financial institutions in Continental Europe spent some €200 million on internal and external corporate actions solutions in 2006, with 75 per cent of that spend going on inhouse development, according to a recent report from analyst Celent, Corporate Actions Automation in Continental Europe. Celent expects this proportion to decline to 55 per cent by 2010,…
Lehman’s Paula Hardy Appointed FISD Programme Director
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association has appointed Paula Hardy as program director. Joining FISD after 13 years at Lehman Brothers, where she was most recently vice president for contracts and vendor management, Hardy started at FISD on January 8 and is based in Washington, DC.
Insight Investment Operations Migrated to Northern Trust
Insight Investment’s operations have been successfully migrated to the Northern Trust platform, for more than 600 portfolios, following the 2005 announcement of their outsourcing partnership. Northern Trust provides Insight with every aspect of post-trade execution support including trade processing and settlement, data management, reconciliation, portfolio recordkeeping, client valuations and reporting and performance measurement and attribution.
Savitsky and Geraghty Join Markit as ABS specialists
Markit Group has appointed James Savitsky and Thomas Geraghty as directors within its global asset backed securities (ABS) sales and product development teams. Savitsky, who joins from Trepp, will coordinate Markit’s ABS sales effort globally, distributing the firm’s data and analytics services for the structured finance markets. Geraghty, formerly man-aging director at Wall Street Analytics,…
EDI Nearly Doubles GlobeTax’s e-TaxData Online Reference Data Product
Exchange Data International Limited (EDI), provider of international securities data, together with GlobeTax, provider of outsourced withholding tax services have announced the scaling up of the online market reference data product e-TaxData Online, adding an additional 71 markets of issue to the existing 91 markets already covered. This launch comes less than a year after…
Richard Bemindt Named as Chief Technology Officer of Capco’s Managed Services
Capco has appointed Richard Bemindt as chief technology officer for the Managed Services business of Capco. Bemindt, previously from Applimation, will be based in New York, where he will work to enhance CRDS’s ability to service its client base.
2007: A good year for EDM?
The good news to kick off the year with is that reference data is getting more important. It is a major component of the recently announced wide-ranging HSBC enterprise data and technology deal we are told. Elsewhere in this issue of Reference Data Review there are further indications of this positive trend: a rock solid…
Looking into the EDM Crystal Ball By Michael Atkin, managing director, EDM Council Inc
It seems like only yesterday we were talking simply about reference data with lots of debate over definitions, an underlying focus on operational efficiency and a business case cut straight from the technology ROI rulebook. My, my how quickly things have changed. Reference data has evolved into EDM. Risk mitigation has replaced operational efficiency. And…