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DTCC Names Andrew Douglas Head of Public Affairs, Europe
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today announced that Andrew Douglas, a respected industry veteran, has joined the company to lead its Public Affairs efforts in Europe. In this position, Douglas will play a key role in representing DTCC’s public policy positions to officials of the European Union and its Member States. He will…
Fund Service Provider Harmonic Selects Numerix Analytics to Power Independent Valuation
Harmonic Fund Services (Harmonic), a specialized global hedge fund administrator, today announced that they have selected Numerix, the leading provider of cross-asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management, to provide independent valuation and risk for OTC derivatives within Harmonic’s FM3 platform for alternative investment managers. Through the use of Numerix CrossAsset – Numerix’s analytic…
Thomson Reuters Targets Mutual Fund Community with Global End of Day Equity Pricing Solution
Thomson Reuters today announced two major enhancements to its pricing and reference data platform. DataScope Select will now deliver validated end of day prices within 30 minutes of market close and the introduction of a universal close price field. This is beneficial to US Mutual fund managers and administrators, as they will now be able…
Deutsche Bank’s Flatley Named to Replace Wise as CEO of Netik
In a move that underscores the convergence of electronic trading with data management, Netik has named Rob Flatley, until February global head of Autobahn Equity at Deutsche Bank, as its new chief executive officer. Flatley takes over from John Wise, founding CEO, who returned to the company in 2002 after a period pursuing other interests….
SmartCo Goes Live at National Bank Financial Group in Canada
SmartCo, Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management software solutions for the financial industry, is delighted to announce that National Bank Financial Group of Canada has gone live with its innovative data management software solution, SmartCo DataHub. Following a market and competitor review SmartCo’s data management platform has been selected by National Bank Financial…
OFI Asset Management Selects Pricing Partners for its Structured Products Revaluations
Pricing Partners, the independent valuation expert and a world leader in mathematical models for valuations of derivatives and structured products, announced today to provide independent revaluations to OFI Asset Management for its interest rates, credit and equity structured products. OFI Asset Management develops and provides tailored investment solutions to its clients. The group operates over…
Bordeaux Dispatch – Extending the Tentacles
Actually, I used Bordeaux to get your attention. I write this blog from rural Perigord – the village of Bourdeilles, to be exact – which sits close to some wine appellations that are regarded as Bordeaux, like St. Emilion and Pomerol. So, yes, it’s a stretch. But there is a theme at play here. Bourdeilles…
Markit Appoints Managing Director of Equities And Index Operations
Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, today announced the appointment of Paul Grimes as Managing Director of Equities and Index Operations. Grimes will be responsible for Markit’s equity and fixed income index operations and will also co-head Markit’s dividend forecast, index management and exchange traded fund (ETF) services, in partnership with Bernie Thurston,…
Wall Street Horizon Launches Real Time Dividends Monitor (RDM), First Service Delivering Automated, Dividend Data for Low-Latency Electronic Traders
Wall Street Horizon today announced the public launch of its Real Time Dividends Monitor (RDM) service, which uses proprietary algorithms to “read” wire-service dividend announcements and parse announcement data into structured fields usable by computerized processing systems. RDM is the first automated comprehensive source of information on dividend announcements available to the investment community. The…
NYSE Euronext Aims to Blaze Symbology Trail with Adoption of Bloomberg Bsym Codes
NYSE Euronext’s adoption of Bloomberg’s open-source security identifiers is aimed at setting the pace for industry change within the symbology segment, in the hopes of broadening client choice and reducing customer cost. The exchange operator, which provides a range of data feed services, is first adding the Bloomberg Open Symbology (Bsym) codes to its OpenBook…