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Outsourcing Becoming Viable Option, New A-Team Survey Says
Effective reference data management is a tough challenge for most financial institutions, but is outsourcing it to an experienced partner a viable option? It appears it is indeed an option that many reference data managers – 95% of those surveyed by Reference Data Review – would consider, signalling a fundamental shift in the attitude towards…
Dolan Joins GoldenSource Team in Sales & Marketing
Pat Dolan has joined GoldenSource as vice president EMEA sales and marketing. Here he will report directly to chief executive officer Mike Meriton. Dolan was previously global head of sales at Strategic Communications Software, and has previously worked at Cognotec, Dow Jones and Standard & Poor’s.
Reference Data Review First Words
The potential sale of Soliton could be a sign that our favourite industry – namely reference data management – is reaching early stages of maturity. Such consolidation is essential to the industry’s development and the ultimate aim of sorting out our data problems and automating securities processing. The proliferation of solutions providers over the past…
Yaron Takes Over from Esler at Bear Stearns
Bear Stearns’ managing director and principle Paul Yaron has become the new head of reference data services following the departure of Peter Esler earlier this year (RDR, May 2005).
Xenomorph Targets U.S. With New Subsidiary, Office
Derivatives data management specialist Xenomorph is establishing itself in the U.S. with a new subsidiary Xenomorph Software, and a new New York-based office. Greg Johnson, sales and marketing director of Xenomorph says, “We already have a number of investment banking clients in the U.S. as a result of contracts with their European offices, as well…
Crammond to Spearhead Markit’s Asia Pac Development
Markit continues to expand its Asian practice, with a new office opening in Singapore to be run by David Crammond. Crammond joins from ABN Amro, where he was head of structured asset sales for the Asian region. Before then, he was based in ABN’s New York office, running structured credit sales. At Markit, he will…
Soliton Enhances TimeSquare For Basel II Compliance
Soliton has enhanced its TimeSquare data management service to include an off-the-shelf cross-reference data model and cross-referenced ratings data to ensure credit risk compliance for Basel II. The cross-reference data model allows for the integration of multiple data vendor feeds using their proprietary identifiers, as well as supporting cross-referencing to other industry identifiers. It also…
S&P Further Boosts Securities Evaluations Group with Dooley Hire
Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations group has added Michael Dooley to its Interest Rate Swaps pricing team. Dooley has previously worked at firms including Prudential Securities, Sumitomo Bank Securities, and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. He joins a growing team following more hires last month (RDR, May 2005). Prior to bringing Dooley on board, Standard…
IBEI Suppliers Tout Their Wares At London Gathering
A number of suppliers of business entity identifiers got together to tout their wares to a small assembled crowd of practitioner firms in London earlier this month under the ISITC banner. Although there is an ISO process underway for a naming convention related to International Business Entity Identifiers (IBEI), this is a slow process and…
EDI Deal with GlobeTax Adds Withholding Tax Data
Exchange Data International has entered an agreement to become the exclusive partner for GlobeTax’s withholding tax data and services for use within EDI’s data services. The new service will be available online as part of EDI’s e-Data Suite of products and will “offer a searchable matrix of over 43 million data points of withholding and…