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FISD Confirms Davin Appointment as Atkin Replacement
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) industry group has officially announced the appointment of Thomas Davin as vice president, replacing Mike Atkin who had long held the position until his surprise departure near the end of last year. Davin, who spoke at December’s FIMA event in London on the FISD’s behalf, joins after 18 years…
Coexis Brings in Former ADP Wilco President Staines for U.S. Operations
Coexis has hired Roy Staines as managing director of its U.S. Operations. Staines was previously at ADP Brokerage Service Group, where he was managing director, responsible for strategic accounts and before that was president of ADP-Wilco.
Cicada Hires Mahoney, Promotes Schachne, Moves Bennett
Carole Mahoney has joined the sales team of data management technology firm Cicada in London. Mahoney joins from Soliton, where she was director of UK sales. Prior to that, she was with Reuters for 12 years in various sales marketing and product management roles. At Cicada, Mahoney will become vice president of European Sales reporting…
Reuters Pulls Together Reference Data; Real-Time Feeds for Enterprise Solution
With the growth rates of Reuters Datascope business “turning heads” internally, its manager has now been charged with taking over Reuters’ real-time data feeds business which will be merged with the reference data business under the “Reuters Enterprise Information” banner. The move marks recognition by Reuters of the way its clients are increasingly doing business:…
Xcitek Introduces Cost Basis Calculator for Institutions’ Clients
Xcitek has introduced a new Xcitek Client Cost Basis product to ease the process of clients finding out cost basis information. The client requests for this information from their brokers and advisors can be a heavy burden, particularly during the tax season, according to Xcitek. In an effort to ease this burden, the vendor has…
Telekurs (USA) Bolsters Fixed Income Pricing Data with Bear Stearns PricingDirect
Telekurs Financial has extended it relationship with Bear Stearns PricingDirect to bolster its end-of-day securities pricing data within the U.S. and Canadian markets. Telekurs has previous supplied PricingDirect’s fixed income pricing data to customers in Europe and Asia. Now, following the release of its exclusive distribution deal with Standard & Poor’s, Telekurs (USA) is selling…
Information Mosaic’s Cama Gains Corporate Actions SwiftReady Label
Information Mosaic’s Cama application has been awarded the Corporate Actions SwiftReady label by Swift. Cama is the vendor’s end-to-end ISO 15022-compliant corporate actions automation solution. To achieve the SwiftReady label, the product must prove its ability to handle the correct business flows for the ISO 15022 Corporate Action messages and to adhere to Global Market…
DST International Integrates Data Hub With HiRisk Application
As part of its aim to integrate its series of applications with its HiDataWarehouse data hub, DST International has released a new version that integrates with its risk management solution HiRisk (based on its acquisition of Askari). This latest addition means that HiDataWarehouse can act as the data hub for the entire DSTi middle and…
Mark-it Partners Rebrands Acquired Businesses Under ‘Markit’ Banner
Mark-it Partners, provider of a daily pricing service for global credit derivatives, cash credit instruments, and syndicated loans, has rebranded to become Markit. The rebranding will be adopted by all products and follows the integration of several acquisitions over the course of the year. LoanX becomes Markit Loans; Totem becomes Markit Valuations; DaDD becomes Markit…
Vitria Upgrades BusinessWare Platform
California-based Vitria has upgraded its Vitria:BusinessWare 4.3 data management platform. The company has added new facilities in XML processing, trading partner integration, web services and business process management. The upgrade also features new modeling tools for handling exceptions and facilitating straight through processing.