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’Tis the season for evaluations…
Spring is in the air – well it certainly is down in the South West of France where this issue comes to you from. And ’tis the season to be excited about pricing evaluations it seems. Just a quick glance at this month’s table of contents will show how this space is really hotting up….
Xcitek Names Villardi to XSP Client Relationship Role
Daniel Villardi, Sr. has joined Xcitek as account relationship manager for its flagship corporate actions software solution, XSP. He was previously responsible for corporate actions processing at the Bank of New York. Villardi will report to Frank Piraino, senior vice president, XSP client relationship management and sales operations, and will be responsible for post-implementation relations…
Exchange Data and CounterpartyLink Join Forces with New Service
Exchange Data International (EDI) and CounterpartyLink (CPL) have joined forces to provide an integrated data service providing EDI’s corporate actions and reference data linked to and supplemented by legal entity data from CounterpartyLink. The new service is designed to help financial institutions comply with anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) regulations, and puts…
SunGard’s Fame Taps Garland for Energy Sales
SunGard has named Jim Garland sales director, Americas, for its Fame Energy managed data solutions business. Based in Houston, Garland will be responsible for generating new business and expanding the North and South American presence for its Fame Energy managed data services.
Loan Market Association Selects Markit to Deliver European Data
The Loan Market Association (LMA) has selected Markit Group to provide its members with European loan prices. The new pricing service, freely available to LMA members via a dedicated page on Markit’s website, will provide close to 6,000 loan prices daily, drawn from price contributions from over 40 leading market-makers in Europe, North America and…
Smith Leaves Bloomberg Data License Team
Oliver Smith has left Bloomberg, where he was account manager for the company’s Data License reference data product. No word on his new residence yet.
Mondas Rolls Out Radica CAPS for First Global Asset Management Client
Mondas PLC has delivered the latest version of its flagship product Radica CAPS, launched in December 2005, to one of its global asset management clients. The undisclosed client will be implementing the corporate actions solution to enable two of its centres to share common event data. Legal entity filtering ensures that each centre is only…
Reuters Launches DataScope Select in the Asia Pacific Region
Reuters has launched DataScope Select in the Asia Pacific region. The service, already available in Europe and North America, provides a cross-asset view of Reuters pricing and reference data on an intraday, real-time, delayed and/or end-of-day basis via a single data source, and allows customers to select and pay for only the data they need.
FT Interactive Data, Xcitek Complete Testing on ISO 15022 Data Feed
Further expanding their long-standing relationship, FT Interactive Data Europe and Xcitek have announced the completion of testing of FT Interactive Data’s latest ISO 15022-formatted corporate action files via Xcitek’s XSP. The testing, aimed at improving implementation cycles at customer sites, was undertaken by FT Interactive Data and Xcitek throughout January prior to the latest release…
AIM Software Secures ODL Securities as Client
Austrian reference data management provider AIM Software has secured London-based ODL Securities Ltd. as a client for its Gain platform. ODL Securities will be using the platform for integration of price, static and corporate actions data provided by FT Interactive Data’s FTS ExShare product into its Oracle-based infrastructure. The integration, which took four weeks, has…