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Swift’s Early Adoption Programme Paves Way for Distribution of More Data Types Over Swiftnet
A year after Reference Data Review broke the news that Swift was to open up its network to third-party vendors corporate actions data, six vendors are now in early adopter status, with a number of others in discussions to make a commitment to the project. The initiative is now on track for additional data types…
Telekurs Hires Gräsner For Germany Sales & Marketing
Telekurs Financial has hired Frank Gräsner as head of sales and marketing for its Germany-based operation. Gräsner previously worked at firms including DWZ/Deutsche Borse, Dresdner Bank and GIS.
Volante Names Payne to Lead New England Sales
Volante Technologies has hired Doug A. Payne to lead the expansion of its New England sales. Prior to joining Volante, Payne was vice president, investment manager solutions, for State Street Corp., and has held positions at NewsEdge and Thomson Oasys.
DSTi Boosts Asian Sales Team
DST International (DSTi) has made additions to its Asian sales team. Ian Baldwyn joins DSTi as general manager for South Asia, based in Singapore. Baldwyn was previously at Bloomberg and before that at Odyssey Asset Management Systems. Additionally, Fran Thompson has been named business development manager for Asia. Thompson joins DSTi from Thomson Asia, where…
Focus on: Basel II and Data Management
Basel II and its requirements for measuring operational and credit risk is one of the key drivers behind the need to accurate and timely reference data. The following is an edited extract of an article written by Dr Urs Bischof, head of VDF engineering at Telekurs Financial and featured in Telekurs’ realtime customer magazine The…
SVC Contracts with Telekurs for International Pricing Data
Securities Valuation Corp. (SVC) has gone live with securities pricing information sourced from Telekurs (USA), which it will offer alongside its own pricing data to direct clients and to customers of parent Financial Models Corp. (FMC). The deal is a useful win for Telekurs (USA) and follows recent moves to gain better leverage from the…
Azimuth Financial’s Azdex Offers Counterparty Benchmarking Data
Azimuth Financial has lifted the lid on its Azimuth Data Exchange (Azdex) initiative to offer financial institutions analysis of the quality of their counterparty data, based on comparisons with that of their peers. Azdex recently signed up Dresdner Bank and Standard Bank of South Africa to participate in the benchmarking project. According to Ken Price,…
Corporate Actions Systems Benchmarked by CityCompass
Think your corporate actions service is good enough? Try putting it through the paces of the CityCompass benchmarking process. Those systems and information service providers brave enough to do so and that passed the tough criteria were rewarded for their efforts with the new B.I.S.S. Gold Label accreditation. The benchmarking process, now in its second…
Distribution Spat Between FTSE, Barra Remains Unsolved
While risk data and technology firm Barra has instructed clients that it will discontinue distribution of data from index firm FTSE Group from the end of next month, FTSE says that no such decision had been communicated to them. It appears that discussions have been ongoing between the two parties, but FTSE insists that no…
Vermeg Secures SEI Investments For Corporate Actions System
Corporate actions processing firm Vermeg has secured a new client in the form of wealth services provider SEI Investments. SEI is in the process of implementing Vermeg’s Megacor system to provide the corporate actions module within its own Global Wealth Management Platform aimed at private clients. While being touted as the first U.S. deal for…