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Harcourt Joins Standard & Poor’s from FT Interactive Data
Steven Harcourt has joined Standard & Poor’s European Structured Finance team, as senior structured finance evaluator, after spending seven years at FT Interactive Data and four years at Merrill Lynch. Harcourt will continue to develop the team’s new European ABS/MBS Evaluation model, reporting to Peter Jones, director of securities evaluations at Standard & Poor’s in…
Mondas Names King, Ryan to Radica Caps Sales Team
Tim King and Dominic Ryan have joined Mondas as sales manager and sales executive, respectively. “Both Tim and Dominic have extensive experience in sales with organisations including the London Stock Exchange, Dow Jones, Thomson Financial and Phillips Electronics, and the high level of expertise we need for them to play a leading part in our…
Thomson Sets Central Role for QAI Platform In Reference Data Delivery Strategy
Thomson Financial’s acquisition of Quantitative Analytics Inc. (QAI), which closed earlier this year, gave the company a product aimed squarely at the quantitative analyst marketplace. But the QAI platform is destined to play a more significant role as the company crystallizes its strategy for distribution of reference data. Thomson Financial has spent the past couple…
FT Interactive Data Adds Pricing to Temenos T24
Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data has agreed to make its pricing, evaluations, corporate actions and reference data available via banking systems provider Temenos’s T24 system. As part of the arrangement T24 clients will also be able to access FT Interactive European Union Savings Directive (EUSD) data, which is fully integrated with the Temenos EU…
TAP Launches Publisher Module for Real-Time Reference Data…
TAP Solutions has released TAPMaster Publisher, a new module for its data management platform that provides real-time detection and notification of changes to reference data. The add-on module reads incoming streams of vendor data as it arrives at the client site, detects changes from previous values, and publishes those changes to the applications and users…
FT Interactive Data Adds CDS Index Trade Valuations
Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data subsidiary has added credit default swap index trades to the range of derivatives valuations it provides through its new relationship with Markit Group. FT Interactive Data’s new CDS index valuation service provides independent valuations of CDS trades linked to the Dow Jones CDX and iTraxx indices through an add-on…
Reuters Expands DataScope’s Fixed Income Evaluated Pricing Service
Reuters has expanded its Reuters DataScope Fixed Income evaluated pricing service to include 12 new currencies from Europe, Africa, Asia and emerging markets. The new currencies are: Danish Krone, Swedish Krona, Norwegian Kroner, Iceland Krona, Hungarian Forint, Polish New Zloty, Czech Koruna, Slovak Koruna, Russian Rouble, Turkish Lira, South African Rand, and Japanese Yen.
Nordea Plumps for GoldenSource As It Standardizes Data Platform
As part of an IT asset rationalization following the merger that created it, Scandinavian bank group Nordea has licensed GoldenSource’s reference data management platform software to create a group-wide infrastructure in support of trading, operations and regulatory activities. The deal will see a three-phase rollout, with first deliverable due at the end of next month….
AIB Selects Asset Control’s AC Plus For Risk Management Ops
Allied Irish Bank (AIB) is implementing technology from Asset Control to centralize risk management operations at its global treasury division in Dublin. The platform, based on Asset Control’s AC Plus data management framework, will manage foreign exchange, fixed-income and derivatives data sourced from both internal systems and external suppliers. AIB will use the system, which…
Jordan & Jordan Unveils Reference Data Testing Kit
Jordan & Jordan (J&J), a New York-headquartered management and infor-mation technology consulting firm, has introduced a so-called Reference Data Testing Framework (RDTF) and will offer it to clients as part of its reference data consulting services. Developed by J&J over the past two years, RDTF is a customizable framework and set of tools that address…