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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…
Capco Sets Four-Pronged Strategy For Reference Data Offerings
Capco has spent the months since its acquisition late last year of Iverson Financial Services developing a services-based business offering that uses key elements of the former Iverson to complement existing and new Capco capabilities (Reference Data Review, February 2004). The company is positioning itself as a full-service reference data management provider, which it hopes…
Finetik Leverages Asian Information Knowledge with ADS Data Product
Asia-based financial information specialists Finetik is leveraging its relationships and reputation within the region to provide a new alternative’ in content and data management in Asian data. Its new Asian Data Service (ADS) effectively pools data from vendors and exchanges to provide in-depth and as reported data for equities, funds, fixed income, derivatives, indices, economic…
Hedge Fund Advisor Polygon Licenses XSP for Corporate Actions
U.K.-based hedge fund advisor Polygon Investment Partners has licensed the XcitekSolutionsPlus’s XSP corporate actions processing platform. Polygon plans to interface XSP with the FundManager portfolio management system from Beauchamp Financial Technology. The global hedge fund is seeking to streamline its corporate actions process for optimal operational efficiency across its London and New York offices. According…