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SunGard’s Fame Taps Garland for Energy Sales
SunGard has named Jim Garland sales director, Americas, for its Fame Energy managed data solutions business. Based in Houston, Garland will be responsible for generating new business and expanding the North and South American presence for its Fame Energy managed data services.
Loan Market Association Selects Markit to Deliver European Data
The Loan Market Association (LMA) has selected Markit Group to provide its members with European loan prices. The new pricing service, freely available to LMA members via a dedicated page on Markit’s website, will provide close to 6,000 loan prices daily, drawn from price contributions from over 40 leading market-makers in Europe, North America and…
Smith Leaves Bloomberg Data License Team
Oliver Smith has left Bloomberg, where he was account manager for the company’s Data License reference data product. No word on his new residence yet.
Mondas Rolls Out Radica CAPS for First Global Asset Management Client
Mondas PLC has delivered the latest version of its flagship product Radica CAPS, launched in December 2005, to one of its global asset management clients. The undisclosed client will be implementing the corporate actions solution to enable two of its centres to share common event data. Legal entity filtering ensures that each centre is only…
Reuters Launches DataScope Select in the Asia Pacific Region
Reuters has launched DataScope Select in the Asia Pacific region. The service, already available in Europe and North America, provides a cross-asset view of Reuters pricing and reference data on an intraday, real-time, delayed and/or end-of-day basis via a single data source, and allows customers to select and pay for only the data they need.
FT Interactive Data, Xcitek Complete Testing on ISO 15022 Data Feed
Further expanding their long-standing relationship, FT Interactive Data Europe and Xcitek have announced the completion of testing of FT Interactive Data’s latest ISO 15022-formatted corporate action files via Xcitek’s XSP. The testing, aimed at improving implementation cycles at customer sites, was undertaken by FT Interactive Data and Xcitek throughout January prior to the latest release…
AIM Software Secures ODL Securities as Client
Austrian reference data management provider AIM Software has secured London-based ODL Securities Ltd. as a client for its Gain platform. ODL Securities will be using the platform for integration of price, static and corporate actions data provided by FT Interactive Data’s FTS ExShare product into its Oracle-based infrastructure. The integration, which took four weeks, has…
FT Interactive Data Joins Linedata’s Partner Programme
Linedata Services has made reference data from Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data Europe unit available through its Accredited Data Vendor Partner Programme for its Icon portfolio management platform. Icon users already have access to prices, evaluations, FX rates and indices data from FT Interactive Data’s FTS portfolio administration service.
Markit Credit Pricing and Reference Data Integrates with Charles River
Markit has teamed up with Charles River Development to integrate its credit pricing and reference entity data into the Charles River Investment Management System (IMS) for fixed income. Markit’s data will be consistently mapped and readily accessible throughout Charles River IMS for mutual customers. For Charles River’s clients, the deal will offer a “completely integrated…
CityIQ Named Implementation Partner for Xenomorph System
Asset management consultant CityIQ has become the latest officially accredited implementation partner for Xenomorph’s TimeScape data and decision management system, which specialises in derivatives. The deal enables asset management clients to add derivatives capabilities to their process “without the need for wholesale redevelopment of existing technology infrastructure”. The partners, which have worked together before, believe…