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SmartStream Takes Two for Northern Europe Sales
SmartStream Technologies has expanded its Northern European pre-sales team with the appointment of two new business consultants. Adam Phillips and Max Illis will both report to Pasquale Gizzi, head of pre-sales for Northern Europe, and will focus on business development for SmartStream’s Transaction Lifecycle Management solution across Northern Europe. Phillips has over 15 years experience…
Schroders Plans Global Reference Platform Using Eagle’s Product Suite
Schroders has deployed the Reference Manager software from Eagle Investment Systems across its London, New York and Tokyo operations as part of a global reference data management solution.The asset management firm is using the data management and workflow capabilities of the Eagle software to centralise all of its security reference data in one location and…
Lending Data Mapped by iMonitor
Atlanta-based iLumen Inc. has released further details of its iMonitor automation system for customer lending data gathering and analysis. Currently in evaluation at several U.S. institutions, iMonitor will provide regular, up-to-date snapshots of lending operations and uses a proprietary data-mapping engine to standardize and map data input, conduct analysis and perform benchmarking. Full-scale rollout of…
Xenomorph Claims First with .Net Data Management Suite
Xenomorph has launched TimeScape, a new data management and analysis suite based on the XML Web Services technology of the Microsoft .Net framework. TimeScape unites data management, connectivity and pricing analysis of derivative and fixed income portfolios, delivering a single view through time of all asset classes. Xenomorph claims its use of the XML Web…
The Interview: Telekurs’ Beat Koch
On the growing recognition of the Swiss vendor’s role as a global reference data provider Mention Telekurs to people of a certain age in the London financial technology business and you’ll quite often find that they have a picture of a second division player in the real-time market data industry. Either that, or the words…
Basel Concerns Boost Risk Budgets
One-third of U.S. risk management professionals surveyed by industry association PRMIA have seen their IT budgets increased and plan to install new software to support the forthcoming Basel II capital requirements. Over 2,000 U.S. PRMIA members were asked for their thoughts on various standards in the risk management profession. The results showed a pre-occupation with…
Calling All Data Feeds…
Dutch data management specialist Asset Control has ambitious plans to integrate the complete set of reference datafeeds into a single industry utility, chief executive Ger Rosenkamp explains. When Asset Control announced at the end of last month that it had mapped and normalised Telekurs Financial’s Valordata Feed (VDF) to its AC Plus system and ACDEX…
Asset Control Analyses Data With Analytics Suite
Netherlands-based data management specialist Asset Control has released AC Contour, an analytics tool, as part of its AC Business Suite of tools and applications. AC Contour is a tool for analysing data to create and visualize curves and surfaces including volatilities, correlation and variance covariance matrices, zero curves and bond curves. It was designed in…
Industry Groups RDUG, Redac Talk Of Merger
The two reference data industry groups – the US-based Reference Data Coalition (Redac) and the European Reference Data Users Group (RDUG) – are close to finalising details of how to merge their activities”. With the focus of both groups in the same area, it would seem a logical step to merge the efforts, providing the…
Gershon Leaves Misys For City Networks In Asia
London-based financial software and services provider City Networks has hired Andy Gershon as sales manager for Asia in the company’s Hong Kong office. Gershon joins a team of 30 staff based in Hong Kong. He moves from Misys’ trading and risk management software division MKI, where he was regional sales manager for the Greater China…