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Pecs Cytron Leaves DST International
Pamela Pecs Cytron has left her role as executive vice president at DST International, a role she joined just last year. Prior to DST International, Pecs Cytron was at SunGard’s Front Capital Systems as managing director of the Americas, and senior vice president, sales and general manager, North America for Netik.
FT Interactive Data Adds MTS Bond Pricing Data to FTS
FT Interactive Data Europe is now providing intraday and end-of-day pricing from the European government bond MTS markets. MTS data covers euro-denominated government, agency and covered bond prices in real-time or delayed services for portfolio valuation purposes. It is being made available via FT Interactive Data’s FTS online portfolio administration tool. It will be priced…
Lind Leaves Industry Analyst Role for Vendor Side
Tim Lind has left The TowerGroup to join enterprise data management company GoldenSource. In his new role, Lind is senior vice president for product strategy, responsible for strategic planning, market research, competitive intelligence and product positioning. He will report to executive vice president Mark Zill, and will operate from both New York and Boston. Lind…
AIM Secures Clariden Bank For Ref Data Interfaces…
AIM Software has secured another client in Clariden Bank for its reference data management platform Gain DataDesktop. At Clariden, the software is being used to integrate financial data from Telekurs Financial’s Valor Datafeed (VDF) and Bloomberg’s Data License into the banking application Avaloq. Michael Hochstrasser, vice president at Clariden Bank says, “By consolidating the data…
Xcitek Hires Sheppard as COO
Xcitek has appointed Neil Sheppard as chief operating officer with responsibility for managing the company’s corporate actions software XSP in Europe, in support of the European growth strategy. Prior to joining Xcitek, Sheppard has held a variety of project management, product and business development roles in corporate actions at Magenta One, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Dresdner…
…While AIM Forms Alliance with DTS Latin
Meanwhile, AIM Software has also entered a strategic partnership with DTS Latin, enabling it to enter South and Central America with its reference data management software Gain DataDesktop, as well as its Gain Risk Management software. DTS Latin operates in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.
Markit Hires Meldrum for Acquisitions & Strategic Direction
Markit Group has hired Will Meldrum as director of acquisitions and strategic development, pointing to further acquisitive activity by the credit markets pricing vendor. Meldrum previously worked at Deutsche Bank for four years as director and head of global markets strategic investments. In this role, he was involved in the original sale of the collaborating…
Dublin’s Dexia Rolls out Telekurs iD for Data Access
Dexia Fund Services Dublin has rolled out Telekurs iD, the intelligent display product from Telekurs Financial to its fund accountants. They will now be able to verify prices and corporate actions as well as static and cross-reference information on security master files from its existing implementation of Telekurs’ Valor Datafeed (VDF).
Mondas Interfaces with the DTCC’s Corporate Actions Service
Mondas has built an interface between its Radica CAPS corporate actions solution and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC’s) Global Corporate Action (GCA) Validation Service.
Volante Technologies Partners with Vitria
Volante Technologies has combined its data-centric solutions, including management of Swift, ISO 15022 and ISO 20022 messaging standards, with the business process integration solution BusinessWare offered by Vitria. The combined offering has already been deployed at three financial institutions. Volante’s technology enables the rapid identification of errors at the source, enhancing BusinessWare’s capacity to manage…