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Asset Control’s Andrew Wolf Promoted to Sales Director, Americas

Asset Control announced today the promotion of Andrew Wolfto the position of sales director, Americas. Based in New York, Mr. Wolf will be responsible for overseeing the expansion of the North American sales team, including adding new sales executives in Canada and specific metropolitan areas in the US. He will also pursue new markets for…

Interactive Data adds European Money Market Instruments to its Award-Winning Fixed-Income Evaluated Pricing Service

Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that it is adding evaluated pricing for European money market instruments to its global independent fixed-income evaluations coverage. These new evaluated prices will complement the coverage of US and Asian money market instruments already offered by Interactive Data. From…

SRL Global Chooses SIX Telekurs for Pricing and Index Data

SRL Global, originally established as a trading and technology joint venture with Man Group Plc in 2007, now an independent specialist technology boutique offering its services to financial buy side institutions, recently signed an agreement with SIX Telekurs UK Ltd to take end of day pricing and index benchmark data for its NEXUS Enterprise Solution….

SunGard Availability Services Launches Replication as a Service

SunGard Availability Services, a provider of information availability and business continuity services, today launches Replication as a Service (RaaS), a cost efficient, on-demand way to replicate vital data contained within an organisation’s diverse storage devices. SunGard’s RaaS replicates data in a secure private cloud environment, which is linked into SunGard’s recovery network. SunGard estimates that…

A Blip is Back on the Radar

Earlier this year I noted that all had gone quiet on the Western Front with regards to the securities industry’s grand plans for an “investment roadmap” for standards. Although Swift and other industry bodies had been talking about interoperability, not much had been said in reference directly to the roadmap. Not so this week, however,…

A Rethink, Redesign and Retool is Needed for Systemic Risk Monitoring, Contends JWG’s Di Giammarino

In order to be able to properly monitor systemic risk, the industry first needs to understand the gaps in the current data framework and then rethink, redesign and retool the method of controlling “the system”, according to PJ Di Giammarino, CEO of JWG. Speaking at the FS Club event on systemic risk last week, Di…

SmartCo Announces Formal Partnership with FINGANCE GmbH

SmartCo is pleased to announce its formal partnership with FINGANCE GmbH, as an exclusive partner to sell and implement the SmartCo DataHub solution in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. SmartCo is a global leader in the reference and market data management software solutions industry, bringing innovative solutions to the buy side, sell side and securities services….

Cadis Hosts SIX Telekurs Data

Cadis, the global EDM specialist, today announced the availability of a Cadis hosted version of SIX Telekurs’ main product, the Valordata Feed (VDF). The Cadis SaaS version will enable SIX Telekurs clients to consume all VDF data in any file format, at any latency within hours. Daniel Simpson, CEO of Cadis said: “Our hosted version…

B-next Launches MACOC:AML and MACOC:Fraud

B-next, a provider of market conformity software solutions to financial institutions, announces the release of MACOC:AML and MACOC:Fraud. B-next has partnered with Cellent Finance Solutions, a leading vendor in enterprise-wide analysis of risks and hazards, integrating its AML and fraud solution into its MACOC platform and can also connect to b-next’s MACOC:Cockpit. This MACOC:Suite offers…

CFTC Roundtable on Swaps Data Repositories Recommends Entity Identifiers Should be Kept Simple

As noted by Reference Data Review earlier this year, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is examining the data standardisation challenges underlying the provisions contained within the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act relating to the introduction of new swaps data repositories. To this end, last month saw the CFTC conduct a public roundtable…