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Raft International Names Millar to Head U.K. Operations

Raft International, a supplier of risk management software, has appointed David Millar as managing director of its U.K. operations. Millar was most recently an independent consultant, but earlier worked for Logica and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. At Raft International, Millar’s focus will be on operational and credit risk products.

London Stock Exchange Goes Live with Sedol Master File Service

The London Stock Exchange’s widely anticipated Sedol Master File (SMF) service went live on March 15 in the hopes of exploiting what it sees as an opportunity to supply more detailed identity information particularly in the area of cross-border trading. After the first week of operation, around 50% of the LSE’s users had accessed the…

… As Foster Joins as Vice President of Sales

At the same time, IDS announced Barrett Foster has been appointed as vice president of sales. Foster has spent time at Brown Brothers Harriman, NBD First Chicago, Credit Lyonnais and Thomson Financial’s Investext Group.

Integrated Decision Systems Taps Christiansen for Relationship Management …

Integrated Decision Systems has hired Stephen Christiansen as senior director, relationship management. Christiansen joins the U.S. provider of portfolio management systems following stints in client-facing roles at ADP, Reuters and Quotron Systems. Don Totter, who joined as CEO recently, also spent time at ADP.

Financial Data Management Event Offers Practical Insight

Osney Media’s Financial Data Management conference in London next month promises to yield some insight into issues surrounding management of information within the financial services marketplace. Osney Media believes the key data management question for financial institutions has shifted in the past 12 months from “Should a data management project be implemented?” to “How will…

Soliton Revamps Management in Bid to Leverage Data Platform

Reference data management platform provider Soliton has revamped its senior management team in a bid to exploit growing industry interest in consistent, timely and accurate reference data. Soliton’s TimeSquare offering is designed to automate the acquisition and management of reference data and allows institutions to create a single, sustainable security master database. The reorganization involves…

Invesco Marks First Global Deployment For XSP

Invesco’s implementation of XcitekSolutionsPlus’s corporate actions automation platform, announced last month, was strategically important for the vendor and may be a pointer of the future direction of its global ambitions. Invesco will use the XSP platform currently deployed by its U.S. parent, Amvescap, to service its European and Asian operations, marking the first time an…

Kx Systems to Offer Testing for London Stock Exchange Trade Data

Kx Systems has forged a relationship with the London Stock Exchange that will allow institutions to use Kx’s data analysis capabilities to test trading strategies using LSE historical trade and quote data. Kx has had a similar arrangement with the New York Stock Exchange for several years.

CSK Software, Telekurs Team Up to Offer Integrated Access to VDF Data

CSK Software and Telekurs Financial are collaborating to offer Telekurs’ VDF data feed via CSK’s X-Gen integration solution. Using X-Gen, VDF clients will be able to integrate securities master, corporate actions and pricing information more easily with their existing applications.

Deutsche Borse Mulls Offering Reference Data Services

Fresh from its acquisition of Clearstream International, Deutsche Borse is considering launching a reference data service to complement its planned corporate actions and new-issue data services. These latter two services will be offered to vendor redistributors, some of which are currently testing the service for German and Luxembourg equities and fixed-income instruments. Deutsche Borse hopes…