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Global Benchmarking Survey by EDM Council and Headstrong Reinforces Importance of EDM for Regulatory Compliance
The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council and Headstrong, an IT consulting company for financial services, today announced results of their 2010 industry benchmarking survey on the current state of data management among global financial institutions. Sponsored by Headstrong and with analysis completed by the EDM Council, the survey demonstrates the rising importance of EDM as…
Data Quality Takes Priority Over Speed in the Risk Management Challenge, Says Mizuho’s Tweddle
Speaking at this week’s A-Team Insight Exchange conference in London, Mizuho International’s risk management chief operating officer Simon Tweddle explained to delegates that although timeliness of data is becoming much more important from a risk management perspective, this must not come at the cost of data quality. “When talking about this area, one must recognise…
Transformative Projects are Unlikely to Happen this Year in the Risk Data Space, Says Kinetic Partners’ Collins
“In 2010 it will be difficult to do anything transformative,” John Collins, member of risk management platform provider Kinetic Partners focused on the vendor’s consulting business, told delegates to A-Team Insight Exchange in London this week. The cost pressures of the current market climate and an unwillingness to change core technology platforms will continue to…
CQS Win is Representative of OTC Val’s Post-Acquisition Appeal, Says Tullett’s Humphrey
Following its acquisition of specialist derivatives valuation vendor OTC Val earlier this year, Tullett Prebon has bagged its first public client win in the form of hedge fund CQS. According to Paul Humphrey, CEO of Tullett Prebon’s Electronic Broking and Information division, this win is representative of the increased customer appeal of the OTC Val…
Private Clouds Have Potential in the Enterprise Data Context, Agrees A-Team Insight Exchange Panel
Cloud computing may have become a buzzword for the industry but despite some reservations in the market about latency, it does have potential in an enterprise data context, agreed panellists at A-Team Insight Exchange in London this week. Market participants are seeking to streamline their usage of vendor data feeds and reduce their costs and…
Princeton Financial Systems introduces DVS Fund Warehouse 5.9 and DVS Publisher Suite 3.2
Princeton Financial Systems has released new versions of its data management platform DVS Fund Warehouse (DVS) and its automated fund reporting solution DVS Publisher Suite. Both versions offer significant functional enhancements. DVS Fund Warehouse 5.9 comes with new possibilities for global attributes allowing clients to easily integrate data that are not related to a specific…
Swift to Reduce Message Prices by an Average 20 Percent
Swift, the provider of global financial messaging services, announced today that it is reducing the price of messages on its core FIN service by an average of 20 percent. This will represent an estimated saving of EUR 70 million for Swift customers in 2011. The new pricing plan takes effect on 1 January 2011. “We…
Mason Slaine Named Chairman, President and CEO of Interactive Data Corporation
Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that Mason Slaine has been named chairman, president and chief executive officer of the Company, effective immediately. Mr. Slaine replaces Raymond D’Arcy, who will now serve as vice chairman of Interactive Data. Mr. Slaine has held a number of…
Stop Press: Raymond D’Arcy Replaced as CEO of Interactive Data Corporation
Raymond D’Arcy is stepping down as president and CEO at Interactive Data Corporation less than two months after venture capital funds Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus concluded their acquisition of the financial information giant. The top level shuffle sees Mason Slaine named as chairman, president and CEO of Interactive Data, with D’Arcy appointed vice chairman….
Broadridge to Expand its Business Process Outsourcing Services
Broadridge Financial Solutions, a technology services and outsourcing company to the global financial services industry, today announced a major expansion of its outsourcing solutions offering. In response to market demand, Broadridge has extended its business process outsourcing (BPO) services beyond securities processing functions and, in order to offer greater flexibility to global financial institutions, now…