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Bureau van Dijk Picks EDI for Corporate Actions Data
Dutch electronic publisher Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (BvDEP) has selected Exchange Data International to supply corporate actions data for the latest version of its Osiris company database. The deal brings EDI’s Worldwide Corporate Actions (WCA) feed to a new audience of front-office corporate finance users; its traditional marketplace is in the back-office corporate finance…
DSTi Names Hunt to Head Product Strategy
DST International (DSTi) has appointed Ian Hunt as head of global product strategy. Hunt will assume responsibility for DSTi’s entire range of products and will direct future functionality plans, including the R&D priorities. Hunt will also be responsible for identifying potential acquisition targets if he decides there is a need to buy in products, modules,…
SunGard in Acquisition Talks with Asset Control as Accenture Selects AC For Outsourcing Solution
Acquisitive SunGard is in talks about a possible purchase of data management firm Asset Control. Although in early stages of discussion, the talks appear to be part of a wider strategy by SunGard to make a substantial commitment to the reference data area, already indicated by its earlier acquisition of Fame Information Services late last…
Netik Names Two to Sales Team
Netik has expanded its European and North American sales teams with the addition of Laura Bedborough and Doreen Severs. Bedborough joins as sales executive, reporting to Keith Hale, managing director of Netik’s Europe, Middle East & Africa region. She has responsibility for new business development in hedge funds, investment management, prime brokerage and hedge fund…
Telekurs (U.K.) Poaches Incarico from FT Interactive Data
Telekurs Financial has hired Ciro Incarico has joined the new-business sales team for the company’s U.K. subsidiary. Incarico joins Telekurs (U.K.) Ltd. from FT Interactive Data’s Boston sales office, where he spent the past three years as account/relationship manager, having worked for the FT Interactive Data for seven years.
Case Study: Henderson Global Centralizes Using DISL Integral
Henderson Global Investors, a mid-sized U.K. investment management firm, is about a third of the way through an almost three-year project to revamp its data management procedures across the board. With its back office outsourced to Cogent, Henderson’s focus was on the data used to support its front and middle offices, including the investment management,…
Case Study: Deutsche Stresses Strong Governance Approach
Deutsche Bank expects to complete its wide-ranging DB Reference Data Programme – launched in 2002 and encompassing a single model for client, instrument and organizational data – by the first quarter of next year. In developing its plans for the project, Deutsche took care to acquire management buy-in, establishing a Corporate Reference Data Governance Forum…
Soliton Links to Counterparty Data From CreditDimensions
Reference data management firm Soliton is adding links from its instrument data to legal entity data, through a new partnership with CreditDimensions. The two firms are launching the (as yet unnamed) joint product at this month’s Securties Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference at the New York Hilton, which will provide clients with a consolidated…
BNP Paribas Securities to Use City Networks for Exceptions
BNP Paribas Securities has rolled out City Networks’ CityNet Investigation workflow management system, aimed at automating exceptions generated by the reconciliation process. Through the implementation, BNP is seeking to reduce its institutional clients’ operational risk among other benefits.
Euroclear Taps Accenture for Single Settlement Engine Help
Euroclear has selected Accenture to provide application development sourcing services as part of the Brussels-based depository’s single settlement engine project. Under the plan, Accenture will help develop a platform that will host Euroclear’s Single Settlement Engine. The project is due for completion – with help from a yet-to-be-determined second strategic sourcing partner – in 2006….