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Lammersdorf Joins Cicada’s CounterpartyLink

Former Deutsche Borse executive Christoph Lammersdorf has joined CounterpartyLink as managing director.

Mergent Offers Unified Access To Corporate Actions, Bonds Data

Mergent, now owned by China’s Xinhua Finance, has introduced two new products EventsData and BondSource. EventsData provides unified web-based access to a combination of global corporate actions data across Mergent’s multiple databases. The corporate actions covered include mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, securities listings and delistings, EPS updates, liquidations, stock splits and reverse stock splits, spin-offs,…

Kennedy, Leichsenring, Join GoldenSource in Newly Created Roles

Paul Kennedy, formerly head of content and news at Reuters, and Peter Leichsenring, previously director alliances and channels financial services at Tibco Software, have both joined the recently renamed GoldenSource (known before as Financial Technologies Inc. FTI). Both join in newly created roles. Kennedy has been named vice president of product management based in London….

Abbey Extends Use of Asset Control for Telekurs’ Corporate Actions

Abbey Financial Markets has extended its use of Asset Control’s data management platform to manage corporate actions data. Abbey chose to source its corporate actions data, alongside pricing and reference data, from Telekurs Financial’s Valordata Feed (VDF). This feed was integrated into the Asset Control platform at Abbey using AC Plus’s existing feedhandler for VDF….

XcitekSolutionsPlus Hires CA Specialist Thoma for Client Services

XcitekSolutionsPlus last month hired Steve Thoma as senior client administrator within the client services team in Birmingham, AL., to provide production support and implementation of XSP within North America. Thoma was previously corporate action reorganization manager at Fifth Third Bank, and corporate action specialist at Bank One Trust. Further expansion in Birmingham, New York and…

Reuters Grows Third-Party Alliances With Cicada Deal

Reuters has entered a strategic alliance with Cicada to make key historical and reference data from its Datascope service available through Cicada’s data management solutions. Specifically it will provide equities and fixed income data through Cicada’s Reference Data Management Solutions. This is in line with Reuters’ plan to build on its third party alliances, and…

A-Team Welcomes Maryann Houglet to Spearhead Strategic Consulting

A-Team is pleased to announce that Maryann Houglet has joined to spearhead A-Team’s strategic consulting business. She brings with her over 25 years experience in the securities industry worldwide leading businesses, providing marketing and corporate development expertise at financial information services firms. As an independent consultant, her clients have included Interactive Data Corporation, Thomson Financial…

BoNY Wins ING Europe Deal with Outsourced SmartSource…

Bank of New York has won a deal with ING Investment Management Europe, based in Holland, to take on ING IM’s operational functions from post-trade execution services to settlement. The deal is another client for Bank of New York’s outsourcing business SmartSource, which is leveraging its recent 51% stake in the “information-centric STP solutions” company…

Kirby to Leave SmartStream Technologies at Month-End

Anthony Kirby will be leaving SmartStream Technologies at the end of this month to pursue other opportunities. Kirby joined a year ago as director of market management at SmartStream, reporting to chief executive officer Martin Brown. Prior to that Kirby worked at Deutsche Borse, Reuters, Swift, the former GSTPA, and Merrill Lynch. Kirby is also…

The Appliance of Science to the Enterprise

The era of enterprise data appears to be dawning – finally. Listening to John Fleming talk at an industry event in New York, it began to occur to us that the world is finally understanding the importance of data, not for its own sake, per se, but as an enabler. Fleming’s project at Morgan Stanley…