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A-Team Group Adds Key Team Member
Andrew and Angela are delighted to announce the arrival of Nathan, 6lb 6oz, on March 11. Mum and baby are doing fine. After missing his first deadline by almost two weeks, Nate should be ready for active reporting duty in about 20 years. As Reference Data Review went to press, Nate was making great use…
Volante Technologies Products Optimized with SpikeSource
Volante Technologies has fully configured and optimized its products for use with SpikeSource Spike Stacks to create an open source infrastructure. Volante’s data management products, which run in J2EE and .Net environments, now carry Java, Apache and MySQL components, providing solutions for financial services based on business-ready open source infrastructure, with end-to-end testing and a…
Temenos Appoints Popple, Christodoulou for European Operations
Steve Popple, previously sales director at reference data management platform supplier GoldenSource (formerly Financial Technologies International), has joined Swiss core banking systems vendor Temenos as director of business development, Central and Eastern Europe. Popple, an industry veteran of 23 years, will report to Noah Krahenmann, and will be based in the U.K. Another new arrival…
Thomson Financial’s Datafeed Now Available via ValueLink
Thomson Financial has signed an agreement with ValueLink to provide its Datafeed solutions as a primary source via ValueLink’s validated data service in Europe. As a result, ValueLink’s clients will now be able to commingle Thomson’s financial content with their own proprietary content and that of other third-party sources of data, which are integrated in…
Capco Expands its Managed Services Capability in Europe
Capco, has announced two senior appointments in its managed services business. Neil Innes, who most recently spent seven years at Deutsche Bank, joins as a product manager within Capco Reference Data Services, based in London. Eric Bohner, meanwhile, a founding partner of Capco, has been named head of managed services sales for Europe.
FT Interactive Data, Xcitek Complete Testing of ISO 15022 Service
FT Interactive Data Europe has successfully completed testing of its latest ISO 15022-formatted corporate action files in partnership with Xcitek’s XSP. Testing of the available ISO 15022 event types was undertaken between FT Interactive and Xcitek throughout January prior to the latest release of FT Interactive Data’s ISO 15022 service, with the aim of enabling…
CSFB’s Bottega Jumps Ship to Assume Mantle of Chief Data Officer at Citigroup’s CIB Unit
CSFB’s John Bottega has left the firm for pastures new. Bottega has jumped ship and landed at Citigroup’s Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) unit, as chief data officer, the first time we’ve encountered this title in our industry. In this role, he’ll be responsible for planning and managing CIB’s data strategies, policies and line functions,…
GoldenSource Corp. Expands Offshore Total Centre in Mumbai
GoldenSource Corporation is expanding its Offshore Total Centre (OTC) in Mumbai, India, in partnership with TCGIvega Information Technologies (TCGIvega). To address an increased demand in its development, customer support, professional services and other back-office support functions in Asia, the OTC has moved into a new facility located in Mumbai’s technology sector.
FT Interactive Data Adds Markit’s Swaps, CMS BondEdge’s Analytics
The strategic relationship between Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data unit and credit data specialist Markit has borne its first fruits. As expected (Reference Data Review, January 2006), FT Interactive Data has released a valuations service for credit default swaps that draws on Markit’s access to around 50 CDS dealers in the marketplace. The launch…
Markit Launches Synthetic CMBS Index with CDS IndexCo
CDS IndexCo consortium and Markit Group have launched CMBX, a synthetic index of U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) with an initial group of 14 market-making banks. Markit will serve as the central source of information about CMBX, and will utilize cashflows from Trepp. As with ABX, a home equity loan-linked index based on various asset-backed…