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OPERS Shortlists Eagle and DST For Data Management System Purchase
The Ohio Public Employee Retirement System (Opers) has narrowed down the list of vendors it is considering to provide a centralized data management and portfolio accounting solution. Eagle Investment Systems and DST International are said to have made the shortlist. Opers, which has $60 billion in assets under management, currently maintains multiple securities master files…
XcitekSolutionsPlus Adds Corporate Actions Manager Gray to Client Services Team
XcitekSolutionsPlus has added Adrian Gray as senior client administrator to the client services team in the London office. Gray joins from SmartStream Technologies, where he was senior business consultant for corporate actions, responsible for conducting business cases, building GAP analysis and managing client and data vendor relationships. Prior to this, he was global head of…
FTI’s StreetEnterprise Disappears In GoldenSource Rebranding
Financial Technologies International (FTI) last month rebranded its entire product suite from StreetEnterprise to GoldenSource in an aim to emphasize its data management capabilities. According to FTI, this is in recognition of the fact that firms are facing significant regulatory and compliance challenges, as well as considering opportunities to drive new revenue streams with new…
Valuelink Expands New Business Team with Fairbrother Hire
ClValuelink Information Services has expanded its new business team, hiring Karen Fairbrother as business development manager. Fairbrother will report to chief executive Stephen Choate and will work alongside Christina Horton, with particular responsibility for partnering and extending the company’s presence in continental Europe. Karen was previously in international sales roles at financial media companies including…
Cusips Adopted as Numbering Scheme In New Syndicated Loan Service
The Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) has teamed up with Standard & Poor’s to launch a new service that provides Cusip and Cusip-based ISIN numbers along with core descriptive data for syndicated loan deals and facilities. Currently the syndicated loan market uses different IDs to represent in the same credit in proprietary systems used…
Clark, Rawal, Brett, Hoffman Join Telekurs Financial’s U.K. Team
Following some recent departures, Telekurs Financial has bolstered its U.K. team with a few hires. Sheena Clark is filling the gap left by Tim Fox in the data acquisition role reporting to Jon Wheeler. Clark has 15 years experience in the market data industry, including more recent roles at Mighter Gissing and PR Newswire. Long…
Due Diligence Repository to Provide KYC Data for Compliance
A new Due Diligence Repository has been created to provide banks with ‘know your client’ data needed to carry out compliance checks. The service has been developed by Bankersalmanac.com and in association with the Wolfsburg Group – a group of twelve global banks working towards standards for various regulatory requirements. It aims to provide a…
Selling in the ‘new normal’ By Bob Etherington. Managing Director, SpokenWord Ltd
Whenever you talk to those who sell products and services in the financial sector, the current strategy can often be summed up as ‘waiting for the good times to come back…one day’. The golden days of booming markets, global expansion and Greenspan’s famous ‘irrational exuberance’. All the things that were going to go on forever…
XSP Signs Up First European Hedge Fund Polygon; Licenses to BB&T
XcitekSolutionsPlus has signed up its first hedge fund client in Europe as Polygon Investment Partners licenses the XSP software system for corporate actions processing. The global hedge fund advisor will interface XSP’s service across its London and New York offices through its already-installed FundManager portfolio management system from Beauchamp Financial Technology. Says Manuel Guerrero, head…
SIAC Tests Volante Metadata Repository for Descriptive Data
The Securities Industry Automation Corp. (SIAC)’s Avner Gelb last month demonstrated tests of Volante Technology Inc.’s new Volante Metadata Repository (VMR) to manage and normalize disparate message types. Speaking at the High Performance on Wall Street conference in New York last month, Gelb, senior technical director at SIAC, said tests had enabled SIAC to shield…