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CheckFree Interfaces eVent to Telekurs’ VDF…
CheckFree Software has developed an interface to Telekurs Financial’s Valordata Feed (VDF) in ISO 15022 format for its eVent corporate actions application. The interface will plug Telekurs’ ISO 15022 corporate actions data into its workflow technology to help end-to-end automation and straight through processing. Says Beat Koch, chief executive officer of Telekurs (U.K.), “Several clients…
Raeves Surfaces at Goldensource
Goldensource has hired Gert Raeves as vice president of business solutions, based in London. Raeves was previously with CheckFree Heliograph in a product marketing role, as well as with Swift and JP Morgan in various roles. At GoldenSource, Raeves will report to Mark Zill, executive vice president of global software operations.
… While Telekurs Outsources Data Input to Capgemini in India
Meanwhile Telekurs Financial has opted to outsource the management of a data input center in India for financial information to Capgemini Schweiz. The three-year deal does not appear to impact any existing data centers, but is aimed at “Giving us flexibility in manpower increases together with very good cost efficiency,” said Eugen Niesper, chief executive…
Church Retires from Cicada After 32 Years in the Business
Martin Church has retired from Cicada, after seven years with the company, and a total of 32 years in the financial information industry. Church established Cicada’s U.K. and European operation in 2000 and served as a board member in other enterprises in the Cicada group of companies. He will continue to serve as a special…
Credit Suisse First Boston’s Data Group Define Processes For Global Entity Data Client
Credit Suisse First Boston’s (CSFB) reference data group has been working to define processes for managing client entity data globally. The project was driven by a decision within CSFB to centralise the client account opening process three years ago, which highlighted the need for a consistent approach to managing the data attributes related to each…
Canadian Depository Offers Direct Access to Reference Data
The Canadian Depository for Securities (CDS) – the world’s oldest securities depository – is gearing up to begin distribution of information services beyond its membership base. The depository is introducing direct availability of its corporate actions and other relevant data it collects to non-members. CDS handles all Canadian debt and equity markets, including private issues,…
Progress can be made when client firms stand up and speak
Understanding the issues that clients are facing – and how they are going about handling them – gives us real insight into the progress the reference data industry is making. And by identifying trouble spots we can work to make further progress. This is why gatherings of practitioners can be a very useful exercise. It’s…
Gillott Departs from CSFB for Goldman Sachs
Mike Gillott has left his reference data management role at Credit Suisse First Boston. At CSFB, he was delivery manager in the product pricing and reference data department in London. He will be joining Goldman Sachs in August, though not in a reference data role.
EUSD: Catch Up on Progress
As mentioned in our special focus supplement of the June edition of Reference Data Review, the EU Savings (Tax) Directive went into effect on July 1, with implications for paying agents on identifying instruments falling under the directive. Data vendors worked with user firms to help by providing tagged data within product modules. FT Interactive…
Changes at Cicada; Schachne, Bhimani Leaves; Redfern, Stacey Transfer to CPL
There have been changes at Cicada as Bruce Schachne has left his role as vice president of global sales to join Standard & Poor’s as vice president of marketing in the global market development division of its ratings group. Hubert Holmes will now resume the global sales management role in addition to his business development…