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EDM Council Readies Industry Benchmarking Survey, Continues Semantics Repository Development
The EDM Council has been working in partnership with IT consultancy firm Headstrong to put together a global data management benchmarking survey, aimed at providing comparable metrics on the data management projects going on across the industry. The survey involved 65 firms and will be discussed at an upcoming launch event in New York in…
SEC Issues Report Cautioning Credit Rating Agencies
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today issued a report cautioning credit rating agencies about deceptive ratings conduct and the importance of sufficient internal controls over the policies, procedures, and methodologies the firms use to determine credit ratings. The SEC’s Report of Investigation stems from an Enforcement Division inquiry into whether Moody’s Investors Service, Inc…
The OFR Beauty Pageant
Earlier this month I noted the political machinations taking place up on Capitol Hill, as various candidates jostle for the position of head of the Office of Financial Research, which is charged under the Dodd-Frank Act with collecting and storing financial services data for the monitoring of systemic risk. There are a number of candidates…
Netik Promotes Lott to Head of Product Management
Netik, a global provider of financial data management and reporting services and products, announced today the promotion of Brian Lott to the role of head of product management. He will sit on Netik’s executive management team reporting directly to Rob Flatley, CEO and president of Netik. Lott will assume responsibility for all strategic product direction…
Information Mosaic’s Bermingham on Swift’s 2015 Strategy, Standards and a Utility Future
Reference Data Review catches up with Gerard Bermingham, vice president of business strategy for the Americas at vendor Information Mosaic, about his views on Swift’s new 2015 strategy and how the industry network operator should figure in the standards development process and the reference data industry of the future. How well do you think the goals…
Scaling New Market Data Peaks
It’s becoming quite a frequent event – that being the press release from marketdatapeaks.com about a new record high as measured using the Exegy ticker plant appliance that powers it. Today, the release said the record had been pushed up to 3,732,957 messages per second at 9.54am. The previous peak was 3,449,856 mps, which was…
Avox’s Price Talks up Wiki-data Progress, Market Opportunities in the Ref Data Space
The development of Avox’s online look-up tool for entity data, which it dubbed Wiki-data, is one of the major developments for the vendor over the last year, according to CEO Ken Price. He first elaborated on the idea in detail at last year’s FIMA in London and indicates that the tool has come on leaps…
Broadridge Supports International Expansion with New Appointments
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced new appointments and a relocation in line with both its growing international strategy and its increased presence in the Asia Pacific region. Julie Kerr has joined Broadridge in the role of senior sales executive, responsible for sales in Hong Kong and Singapore. Shehas over 19 years’ experience in sales and…
Stefan Mäder Appointed CFO of SIX Group
The SIX Group Board of Directors has appointed Stefan Mäder as chief financial officer (CFO) and head of the Finance & Risk Division. In this function, he will also be a member of the group executive board. The board of directors is convinced that Mäder’s broad experience and sound specialist knowledge will help him to…
Information Mosaic is Planning Launch of New Asset Surveillance Solution Later This Year, Says Singh
Post-trade solution vendor Information Mosaic is planning to launch a new asset surveillance solution later this year, in addition to promoting its upgraded client front end for its flagship corporate actions solution. Manmohan Singh, head of product leadership at the vendor and country head of its Indian operations, who joined the vendor back in October…