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FT Interactive to Offer Access to Luxembourg UCITS Data
FT Interactive Data has formed a strategic alliance with CCLux, a Luxembourg specialist in UCITS data, through which it will be the first vendor to provide international access to CCLux’s UCITS data and related documentation UCITS – Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities – have been harmonised by EC legislation since 1985. The legislation…
Bank of Ireland Treasury Goes Live with PaceMetrics STP Kit
Bank of Ireland Treasury & International Banking Dublin has gone live with PaceMetrics’ PaceMaker and PaceManager products, as part of a broad straight-through-processing initiative. The PaceMetrics systems will help provide the bank with transaction data that can be used to increase operational efficiency and to manage operational risk. The rollout of the live product follows…
Valuelink Introduces Shares in Issue Service
Valuelink has extended its validated date service with the addition of a new Shares in Issue service, supplied either as a stand-alone service or as an additional data item within existing ValueLink services. This is the third new service that the company has introduced this year, adding to a Securities Masterfile service launched in May…
FT Interactive Adds Constituent Prices to iBoxx Service
FT Interactive Data is adding iBoxx constituent prices to complement the existing iBoxx indices that it has carried since 2001. The iBoxx indices and constituent pricing data are used by investors as a benchmark for European bonds. The vendor will now offer both intra-day for fund accounting and end-of-day for mainstream portfolio valuation purposes. The…
Hillier-Brook Quits MoneyLine
Ian Hillier-Brook, director of MIS at MoneyLine Telerate, has left the company, which he joined in April last year when MoneyLine acquired Market Information Services, a specialist in time-series database technologies that he had founded six years ago. Hillier-Brook is now working on establishing a new venture aimed at providing marketing and management services to…
SmartStream Technologies Hires Vernon to Product Management Role
SmartStream Technologies has appointed industry specialist Neil Vernon from PaceMetrics to the role of product manager, for its TLM (Transaction Lifecycle Management) solution, a component of its STP Control Architecture. Vernon was product director at PaceMetrics where he was responsible for implementing STP solutions at HypoVereinsbank, ABN Amro, Deutsche and Lehman Brothers among others. Prior…
… Smith Moves On from Reuters
Christopher Smith, Kirby’s erstwhile colleague at Reuters and another RDUG stalwart, left the vendor at the end of June to pursue other interests. He is understood to be currently considering a number of options. His former responsibilities at Reuters are to be taken over by Rowland Jones, director, Enterprise Information Products.
Former Reuters STP Chief Kirby Reappears at Deutsche Borse …
Tony Kirby, former head of Reuters’ global straight-through-processing (STP) strategy, and driving force behind the Reference Data Users Group, has resurfaced at Deutsche Borse, as head of the STP Design unit. In his new position, Kirby will be responsible for the design, specification and implementation of the exchange’s projects concerning STP, as well as overseeing…
Soliton Promotes Mahoney to Head U.K. Sales Effort
Soliton has appointed Carole Mahoney as director of UK sales, replacing Carl Jones who left the company at the end of May. Mahoney joined Soliton in 2002 from Reuters where she spent over a decade in sales, marketing and product management.
Screen Consultants Expands Consultancy and Sales Teams
Dutch data technology vendor Screen Consultants has appointed Bart Aerssens and Denis Nohar to its market data consultancy team and has hired Fons Richter to support sales in Europe and the Middle East. Both were previously market data managers with Netherlands-based banks: Aerssens with F. van Lanschot Bankiers and Nohar with Staal Bankiers/Achmea. Screen says…