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IDC’s Revenues Grow, Supported by New Evaluated, Descriptive Services
Interactive Data Corp. (IDC) saw annual revenues grow 9.5% to $484.6 million for 2004, with net income rising 11.2% to $80.3 million. For the fourth quarter, revenue grew 4% to $125.2 million, while net income grew 15.7% to $21.1 million. Growth was attributed in part to “continued strength … in FT Interactive Data’s North American…
GoldenSource Hires Zill From CheckFree
GoldenSource – formerly known as Financial Technologies Inc (FTI) – has hired Mark Zill as executive vice president, with responsibilities including leadership and development of software operations for product management and development, customer care and international operations. Zill, based in New York. was previously with CheckFree Financial and Compliance Solutions through its acquisition of HelioGraph…
Volante Upgrades Swift Format Plug-in for 2005 MT Update
Data messaging company Volante has made available its Swift SRG 2005 as part of its Swift Format Plug-in for customers. The Standards Release Guide (SRG) is an annual update by Swift of its Message Type (MT) categories. Says Krishna Sudarshan, chief technology officer of Volante, “Our customers and partners save several months of effort, which…
Perry Moves on From BearingPoint
After a brief stint at BearingPoint, Derek Perry has left to pursue other opportunities. Perry joined BearingPoint last year from Capco where he worked on reference data services.
Mondrian Picks Macgregor for Post Trade Communications
Mondrian Investment Partners has picked a post trade service from Macgregor to provide connectivity to Swift and Omgeo’s CTM, as well as for communica-tions of trade notifications, corporate actions and holding reconciliation messages. The Macgregor XIP Post Trade (MPT) solution, which uses ISO 15022 for data definitions, will be integrated with the London investment firm’s…
Capco Adds Chelliah, Bennett to Team
Capco has brought onboard two new executives. Gopi Chelliah has been named partner and executive vice president, business process outsourcing and sourcing development, based in London. He will also be a key member of Capco’s Executive Management Committee and the Capco Transformation client services team. Chelliah joins from Deutsche Bank where he was managing director,…
U.S. Bancorp Fund Services Picks Eagle’s Pace, Ref Data Manager
Eagle Investment Systems has secured U.S. Bancorp Fund Services (USBFS) as a client for its Eagle Pace and Portal services, as well as Eagle Reference Manager to underpin the solutions with securities data validation and exception workflow. These products will be used at USBFS, which provides its mutual fund clients with a range of administration…
Fortis Restructuring Sees Deschênes Named CIO
As part of Belgium-based Fortis’ restructuring, Alain Deschênes has been appointed chief information officer, responsible for providing vision, strategy, leadership and management to information systems and technology across Fortis’ banking and insurance operations. He will report to Herman Verwilst, deputy CEO and chief operating officer. Joining his team is Jean-Pierre Cardinael as chief technology officer,…
CSFB Latest Firm to Use DTCC’s Corporate Actions Service
Credit Suisse First Boston has become the sixth company to sign up for the Global Corporate Actions Validation Service from the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Joseph Porcello, director of asset servicing for CSFB in the U.S., says, “By signing on to GCA Validation, we’re looking to eliminate the time-consuming, manual process of reconciling…
Shipperlee Rejoins S&P as European MD for Risk Solutions
Stuart Shipperlee is rejoining Standard & Poor’s as its new European managing director for the Risk Solutions division, based in London. Shipperlee, who will report to Gary Kearns, global leader for Credit Risk Services, was previously managing director of European operations for U.S. insurance ratings agency AM Best, and before that spent 10 years at…