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Capco Expands its Managed Services Capability in Europe
Capco, has announced two senior appointments in its managed services business. Neil Innes, who most recently spent seven years at Deutsche Bank, joins as a product manager within Capco Reference Data Services, based in London. Eric Bohner, meanwhile, a founding partner of Capco, has been named head of managed services sales for Europe.
FT Interactive Data, Xcitek Complete Testing of ISO 15022 Service
FT Interactive Data Europe has successfully completed testing of its latest ISO 15022-formatted corporate action files in partnership with Xcitek’s XSP. Testing of the available ISO 15022 event types was undertaken between FT Interactive and Xcitek throughout January prior to the latest release of FT Interactive Data’s ISO 15022 service, with the aim of enabling…
CSFB’s Bottega Jumps Ship to Assume Mantle of Chief Data Officer at Citigroup’s CIB Unit
CSFB’s John Bottega has left the firm for pastures new. Bottega has jumped ship and landed at Citigroup’s Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) unit, as chief data officer, the first time we’ve encountered this title in our industry. In this role, he’ll be responsible for planning and managing CIB’s data strategies, policies and line functions,…
GoldenSource Corp. Expands Offshore Total Centre in Mumbai
GoldenSource Corporation is expanding its Offshore Total Centre (OTC) in Mumbai, India, in partnership with TCGIvega Information Technologies (TCGIvega). To address an increased demand in its development, customer support, professional services and other back-office support functions in Asia, the OTC has moved into a new facility located in Mumbai’s technology sector.
FT Interactive Data Adds Markit’s Swaps, CMS BondEdge’s Analytics
The strategic relationship between Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data unit and credit data specialist Markit has borne its first fruits. As expected (Reference Data Review, January 2006), FT Interactive Data has released a valuations service for credit default swaps that draws on Markit’s access to around 50 CDS dealers in the marketplace. The launch…
Markit Launches Synthetic CMBS Index with CDS IndexCo
CDS IndexCo consortium and Markit Group have launched CMBX, a synthetic index of U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) with an initial group of 14 market-making banks. Markit will serve as the central source of information about CMBX, and will utilize cashflows from Trepp. As with ABX, a home equity loan-linked index based on various asset-backed…
Olayan Group to Implement TAPMaster as Core Data Platform
The Olayan Group, a Saudi multinational, has decided to implement TAP Solution’s TAPMaster platform as its core reference data management system for its asset management operation. The deal is the first for TAP for some time, following its big win at Morgan Stanley (Reference Data Review, January 2005). At Olayan, TAPMaster will become the company’s…
Capco Leaps Into Managed Data Services With Acquisition of ING’s Security Master
Capco is to acquire the security master file platform of Dutch bank ING Group as part of a deal under which Capco Reference Data Services will provide ING with managed data services under a seven-year deal. In a move reminiscent of IBM’s acquisition of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein’s data management platform as part of IBM’s Project…
AIM Software, FT Interactive Data Hook Up via Gain Platform
AIM Software and FT Interactive Data have agreed to collaborate in conducting an extended mapping of FT Interactive Data’s information services via AIM’s Gain reference data management platform. The new relationship builds on several years of cooperation maintaining access to the FT Interactive Data services via Gain. Under the arrangement, FT Interactive Data will offer…
Standard & Poor’s Launches Evaluations for Euro ABS/MBSs
Standard & Poor’s has unveiled a new bond evaluations pricing service catering to the European structured finance marketplace. The move is aimed at filling a gap in the marketplace, which is plagued by lack of transparency particularly for illiquid asset- and mortgage-backed securities. The move marks Standard & Poor’s entrance to the European bond evaluations…