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Talend Introduces Industry’s First Unified Platform for Data Services with New ESB Offering

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced the industry’s first unified platform for data services, advancing its leadership in the converging data and application integration markets. Users of the new data services offering benefit from a unified platform with a common development, deployment and monitoring environment for both data management and application integration….

State Street Appoints Craig Butterworth to Head of Fixed Income Sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa

State Street Corporation, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, today announced the appointment of Craig Butterworth to head of fixed income sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Butterworth will lead State Street Global Market’s fixed income sales team and will be responsible for expanding its rates business with…

Hitchon of Deutsche Bank Named to DTCC Board

Jonathan Hitchon, co-head of Deutsche Bank’s Global Prime Finance business, has been elected to the Board of Directors of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Hitchon was elected to the board replacing Robert Kaplan of State Street Bank and Trust, whose term had expired. All other members of the board were reelected, except for…

Stuffed with Standards

Last week witnessed the continuing evolution of a new standard for the identification of legal entities across the financial markets with the publication of the Sifma led coalition of associations’ feedback on the subject to the Office of Financial Research (OFR). But will it be just another standard to add to the many that the…

Profidata Group: Gunther Glabbatz New Regional Director for Germany and Austria

Profidata Group, a provider of investment and wealth management software, has announced the hire of Gunther Glabbatz. Glabbatz will take responsibility for business development in Germany and Austria. Prior to joining Profidata, Glabbatz held a similar role at SimCorp. Glabbatz has a broad experience with IT-implementation projects in the asset management, banking and insurance business….

Credit Suisse Hires Roger Lehman as Head of CMBS Research

Credit Suisse has hired Roger Lehman as managing director and head of Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities Research, responsible for research and analysis that will support the bank’s re-entry into CMBS origination as well as its secondary trading desk. He will report to Dale Westhoff, global head of Securitized Products Research, and will join the Credit…

Hudson Bay Capital’s Black Discusses Bloomberg Vault Implementation, Cost Saving Benefits of Cloud-Based Data Storage

The expanded registration requirements under Dodd Frank for firms that once fell under exemptions have resulted in many more firms being compelled to invest in data storage solutions in order to ease the data retrieval process and keep costs down. One such firm is buy side firm Hudson Bay Capital Management, which has recently rolled out…

Seeing Colt Through a Different ‘Prizm

While it may not be the biggest transaction, Colt’s agreement to acquire a majority stake in MarketPrizm, which finally materialised this week after months of speculation, gives the UK telecom services provider some teeth with which it hopes to bite off a larger chunk of the trading connectivity marketplace. No cash will change hands as…

Calypso Technology Releases Version 12

Calypso Technology Inc., the global capital markets platform provider, today announced the release of Calypso Version 12 (V12) of its cross-asset, front-to-back office platform. The new release improves on best practice standards with stronger seamless integration across asset classes and between functional layers. V12 also builds on Calypso Technology’s growing status as a single-source-of-truth for…

Pentagon Announces Accredited Status with Cadis

Pentagon Consulting, the project implementation and change management experts, today announced its accreditation as a partner with Cadis, the global EDM specialist. With Cadis Centre of Excellence graduates already in place, Pentagon has a number of project implementations already under its belt. “Pentagon has followed the growth of Cadis over the past two years and…