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BondDesk to Distribute DPC’s MuniPOINTS Data Service
DPC Data and BondDesk Group have forged a strategic alliance under which BondDesk, provider of a retail fixed income trading platform, will distribute DPC’s data service MuniPOINTS. The service summarises all the key facts on any US municipal bond deal in a one page sheet. MuniPOINTS has been implemented during the past year by a…
Solera Repurposes TAPMaster To Handle Loan Collateral Data
San Diego-based Solera Group has selected TAPMaster, the enterprise data management platform from TAP Solutions, to support the analytic and risk management demands of its mortgage loan production and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) advisory services business. Solera’s CEO Chris Wiley says the repurposing and extension of TAPMaster to enable it to cope with “the next level…
O’Connor Takes on Data Administration Role at AllianceBernstein
Donna R. O’Connor is now vice president, data administration at AllianceBernstein, where she has responsibility for consolidating the investment management firm’s global equities reference data, as part of its initiative to centralize research, trade support, execution, accounting and reporting systems. At June 30, AllianceBernstein had $625 billion in assets under management. O’Connor has previously held…
BoNY/Mellon Merger Brings Rivals Eagle and Netik Under One Roof
The merger of Bank of New York and Mellon Financial Corp. not only creates the world’s largest securities servicing and asset management firm globally, it also brings under one roof two fiercely rival data warehouse providers, Mellon-owned Eagle Investment Systems and Bank of New York-owned Netik, calling into question the future strategy of the firms’…
Avox Hires Australia-based Regional Manager to Oversee Asian Expansion
Deutsche Boerse owned Avox will open an Australia office on January 2. An as yet unnamed new regional manager will oversee Avox’s expansion in Australia, Asia and the Middle East. The counterparty data service provider says prospective business in the region is already developing.
SunGard Lets Go EDM Experts Odho and Ord, Streamlines FAME
SunGard has made redundant members of the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) group within its Enterprise Solutions Group – Marc Odho and Rob Ord – as well as a small number of people from within the FAME business unit as part of a streamlining exercise. While the shedding of such high profile data experts has prompted…
DSTi Makes a Raft of New Appointments
Investment data solutions provider DST International (DSTi) has made several new appointments. Nash Subedar has been appointed sales manager for all solutions in the Middle East territory. His is an internal appointment. DSTi’s Global Business Development Group has been re-organised and expanded. Phil Hannay will take up the role of product manager for the derivatives…
Navigating the maturity curve
Confirmation that Barclays Global Investors has outsourced the bulk of its European investment operations to JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services adds weight to the argument that, at last, the practice of fund managers outsourcing their middle and back offices to custodian banks has reached maturity. The spectre of the failed Schroders deal is fading, and the…
FT Interactive Data, CMS BondEdge Extend Collaboration
Aiming to support the increasingly sophisticated risk management requirements of buy side clients such as Schroder Investment Management, the FT Interactive Data business of Interactive Data Corporation (IDC) has extended its collaboration with IDC’s CMS BondEdge business to add new data items to its risk and analytical data service. Schroder is one of four existing…
Telekurs Financial to add New Reference Data to VDF for MiFID
Telekurs Financial is to introduce new reference data to help its clients achieve MiFID compliance. According to its head of product services Richard Newbury, a key aspect of Telekurs Financial’s plans is the reworking of its reference data model to make much more of the institution related data it holds, “in order to provide this…