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Reuters Targets Hedge Funds, Adds Lipper to DataScope Select
Reuters plans to integrate the hedge fund data of its Lipper subsidiary into the DataScope Select delivery system. The move marks a significant advance in Reuters’ stated aim of targeting the hedge fund marketplace, which it sees as an area of major potential growth. The addition of the Lipper Tass Hedge Fund Database to DataScope…
CB.Net Sets Outsourced Service For Payments Data Management
London-based provider of descriptive data for the bank payments area, CB.Net, has introduced an outsourced payments reference data service. The new CB.Net Payments Reference Data Service (PRDS) will effectively allow financial institutions to outsource management of their payments data, offloading to CB.Net such functions as sourcing, verifying, validating and normalizing for data required for international…
IDC Hires Hajducky as CFO, Unleashing Crane to Head FT Interactive Data
Interactive Data Corp. has named Andrew Hajducky EVP, CFO and treasurer, paving the way for his predecessor, Steven Crane, to take over as president of FT Interactive Data, as planned. Both will report to Stuart Clark, president and CEO of IDC. Crane is expected to work closely with COO John King and head of sales…
Marks to Quit Swift
Catherine Marks has resigned from Swift to pursue other options, and will leave the company this month. She held the position of SwiftSolutions Manager, Asset Servicing, and has been instrumental in dragging Swift into the world of data distribution. Before joining Swift, she spent several years at Telekurs, Telesphere and Bridge Information Systems.
Thomson Financial Jumps into Bond Evaluations; Adds Standard & Poor’s Data to Intraday Snapshot
Thomson Financial is set to add Standard & Poor’s European bond valuations data to the intraday pricing feed it launched late last year. The move – which is to be announced as early as the first week in July – adds yet another player to the bond valuations marketplace, currently dominated by Interactive Data Corp.,…
Former FTID Europe Sales Head Peck Emerges to Head Quantifi’s New London Office
Credit derivatives analytics provider Quantifi has opened its new London office and named John Peck, formerly global sales director at Informa Global Markets, as head of European sales. Reporting directly to Rohan Douglas, founder and CEO of Quantifi, Peck will focus on building on Quantifi’s already established London presence and supporting its aim of product…
And You Thought Your Structured Data Was in a Mess….
As the world of reference data moves to a phase of relative maturity, the landscape is becoming littered with the usual ‘after-dinner circuit’ of case studies, interviews and Powerpoints gloating about how the data challenge has finally been met. Instead of the chaos we uncovered three years ago – has it been that long? –…
AIM’s Gain to Carry EDI Reference, Pricing Data
Exchange Data International (EDI) has made its reference, pricing and corporate actions data available via Aim Software’s Gain reference data management platform. Gain already integrates data from such sources as Reuters DataScope, Telekurs Valoren Data Feed (VDF) and FT Interactive Data.
Cicada Upgrades Profiler Platform
Cicada has upgraded Cicada Profiler software, adding improved capabilities to meet firms’ anti-money laundering and know your customer compliance needs. Release 1.1 of Cicada Profiler introduces an ownership checklist that can trigger collection of corporate ownership data, for example, based on customer type. The new version supports different types of ownership definitions and supports one-to-many…
London Stock Exchange Releases Sedol Validation Tools
The London Stock Exchange has launched two new products, SEDOL Validator (SEVAL) and the Data Validation Service (DVS). SEVAL enables users to validate their securities masterfiles against the SEDOL Masterfile held at the Exchange. The DVS is a generic data reconciliation engine that enables users to rapidly validate multiple sources of data. SEVAL and the…