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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…
Brewin Dophin Takes Telekurs’ ISO 15022 Corporate Actions Data
UK stockbroker Brewin Dolphin has signed up to take corporate actions data from Telekurs Financial. The data will be delivered on a daily basis in the ISO 15022 format.
Perry Re-Emerges Royal Bank of Scotland
Derek Perry has re-emerged at Royal Bank of Scotland as manager, operations change management. This follows a brief stint at BearingPoint, prior to which he was at Capco where he worked on reference data services.
Asset Control Secures Standard Chartered, Standard Bank for PriceMaster
Asset Control has secured two new clients for its AC PriceMaster for market risk data. The service was rolled out at Standard Chartered in six months. It is used to generate risk factors and curves, as well as standardizing and consolidating market data, sourced from multiple vendors and internal sources to support risk management functions,…
Hirschfeld Leaves Citadel for Asset Control
David Hirschfeld has joined Asset Control as senior vice president of operations, a vendor that his previous firm Chicago-based Citadel Investment Group selected for data management services (Reference Data Review, December 2004). In his new role, Hirschfeld will be involved in initiatives including the turnkey solutions program, Asset Control Solutions Center for product demonstrations and…
Cicada Packages KYC Solution…
Cicada is packaging its data management software and data cleansing team to offer a purpose-built Know Your Customer (KYC) solution. The framework will provide configurable, rules-based workflow schema to help financial institutions manage their client data review process, as well as keep an audit trail and source attribution details. The solution can manage both internal…
Cicada Continues Sales Team Expansion in Europe, U.S.
Cicada is continuing to expand its sales team, hiring Steve Rosenburg as director, America sales, Eija Hietavuo as European sales director, and Bruce Hawkins as business consultant, managing pre- and post-sales support efforts. Rosenburg was previously with Reuters’ Enterprise Information Products Solutions group, and held senior sales roles at Bridge. At Cicada, he will report…
Netik Upgrades InterView Information Portal
Netik has upgraded its InterView Information Portal with the release of the Performance Explorer. The new module enables uses to ‘slice and dice’ performance information via a browser for higher levels of analysis.