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SunGard Buys Soliton at Last For Data Management Expertise
In a deal which appears to have taken some two years of on-off negotiations to come to fruition, SunGard has acquired the TimeSquare business of Toronto headquartered data management solutions vendor Soliton. TimeSquare becomes part of SunGard’s referencePoint enterprise data management (EDM) managed services and solutions business. SunGard says there are no plans to make…
President Role Propels Ex-SunGard Man Richards to BPS
Dale Richards, the ex-SunGard executive vice-president who launched its enterprise data management strategy, has been named president of BPS (Business Propulsion Systems), provider of enterprise governance, risk and compliance solutions. Since leaving SunGard, the former FAME CEO had been running LakeFront Data Ventures, a company seeking to build a network of small EDM providers. Richards’…
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…
The low-down on Sibos Down Under
As reported in the last issue of Reference Data Review, in the build-up to Sibos in Sydney bank owned co-operative Swift had some pretty big ideas about the role it could play in the reference data world. During the event itself, it sought feedback on these plans, and the responses garnered may not have been…
Xcitek Makes Three New Hires for its Sales Team
Xcitek has brought three newcomers into its sales force. Patricia Reilly, previously director of data services and a relationship manager at DTCC, has joined the company in the newly created role of sales executive. In another newly created position Lynne Wilson, formerly account director of financial services at CAPITA Advisory Services, joins the company as…
EDM Council Sets its Agenda
The EDM Council has set the agenda by which it proposes “to advance enterprise data management as a core operational infrastructure”. There will be four primary work streams. Under business metrics, the two focuses will be data quality and performance measurement. The council has launched an evaluation project covering the security description data elements included…
Bryan Makes Way for Brown at Helm of Omgeo
Omgeo, provider of the Alert SSI database and other post-trade, pre-settlement trade management services, will have a new president and CEO from November 1. Marianne Brown replaces Adam Bryan, Omgeo’s CEO for its first five years, in the role at the company jointly owned by Thomson Financial and DTCC. Brown has previously been CEO of…
Tap Solutions Expands its Datafeed Services
Tap Solutions has expanded its data coverage with the introduction of new feed managers for the TAPMaster suite. The addition of Reuters Estimates and Reuters Fundamentals from Reuters Knowledge Direct and FT Interactive Data’s FTS portfolio administration tool to the TAPMaster feed manager library enables Tap to offer access to 21 different datafeed services from…
Industry Veteran Peck’s Efforts at Quantifi Yield Results with First German Bank Win
An increased focus on the European markets is paying dividends for US based Quantifi, provider of modelling, pricing tools and risk analysis for credit derivatives, as it picks up its first German banking client. In June the company opened a new London office and hired John Peck – ex of FT Interactive Data, Telerate and…