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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…
Fame Information Services Joins Migration to Linux
Fame Information Services has become the latest vendor to announce that it has ported its systems to run on the ‘open source’ Linux operating system. Industry analyst Meta Group predicted, in a December 2002 study, that by 2006 or 2007, Linux will run on 45% of new servers. Back in May, Asset Control announced that…
Corporate Actions Survey Shows Increasing Move to Automation
The move towards corporate action automation is gaining momentum as firms come to accept that this is a key area and substantial gains can be made, according to a survey conducted in April and May by CityIQ on behalf of Swift and Smartstream. Over 50% of firms interviewed place greatest reliance on custodians, sub-custodians and…
EDI and Goal Team for Trade Cycle Tax Solution
Reference data provider Exchange Data International has entered into a strategic alliance with Goal Group, which develops systems handling the taxation elements of the securities processing cycle. Goal’s offering, GTRS, automates the process of reclaiming cross-border withholding tax on securities investment income, such as dividends, supported by EDI’s international securities administration data. Custodian banks reclaim…
DTCC Throws Its Weight Behind Corporate Actions Processing
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) launch of its Global Corporate Action (GCA) validation service at the beginning of the month will “reinvent the way corporate action announcements are managed” through the elimination of redundant operations and technology. The development of the service could, if widely adopted, spell bad news for some of the…
ISIPS Reflects Increased Industry Focus on Reference Data, A-Team Consulting Partners With Matrix Services.
We at Reference Data Review enjoyed our trip to this year’s ISIPS – the International Securities Industry Practitioners Symposium – event organised by STP Information Services in London. Reflecting the increased industry focus on reference data, the entire first day of the two-day event was given over to this very subject. Judging by the turnout,…