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Derivix Names Industry Veteran Pierce President
Derivix, a financial software company providing options pricing, portfolio risk visualisation and analytics solutions, today announced that Carrick Pierce has joined the company as its new president. In this newly created position, Pierce will oversee business development, product strategy and global sales to support Derivix as it continues to grow in the dynamic US options…
Asset Control Officially Launches AC Invest, with Added Fanfare from Olympic Champ Gunnell
EDM specialist vendor Asset Control officially launched its new compliance focused solution, AC Invest, this week with a little help from former British Olympic champion Sally Gunnell. Reference Data Review first covered the news of the launch at Sibos, but the vendor decided to dedicate an evening of networking, cocktails and Olympic tales to elaborate…
ECB’s Reference Data Utility Plans Not Practical Enough, Say RDR Readers
It seems that the majority of Reference Data Review readers out there remain sceptical of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) proposed reference data utility. According to the results of out October reader poll, 43% of you do not think the proposals are practical enough to warrant being considered a desirable concept for the market. The…
Pricing Partners Moves its Headquarters to Paris’s Financial Area
Pricing Partners announced today that it will move its headquarters to central Paris’s downtown area in November 2009 as a result of impressive growth and a consistent demand for products and services. The new address will be: Pricing Partners, 6 rue Rougemont, 75009 Paris. Pricing Partners is expanding at a rapid rate, adding more staff,…
StatPro Adds Grobien to European Team as Biz Dev Manager for Germany
Following the appointment of Tim Dennis as European sales director in June this year, portfolio analytics and data solution vendor StatPro has added another new recruit to its European team: Mark Grobien as business development manager for Germany. Grobien will be based in Paris but will be charged with serving the German speaking markets in…
Membership Has its Privileges: Business Entity Data
By Marc Alvarez, senior director, Reference Data Infrastructure, Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data At the heart of working with market and reference data is a well recognised fundamental principle that “organisations issue one or more securities that are quoted on one or more markets by one or more market participants”. This one statement sums…
Broadridge Enters Into an Alliance with Radar, Australia’s Leading Independent Proxy Solicitation and Investor Relations Firm
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced that it has signed Radar, Australia’s leading independent proxy solicitor and investor relations firm, as a distributor of its International Shareholder Communications (ISC) portal to the Australian market. Broadridge’s ISC service portal provides optimal vote output for participating corporate issuers or their agents for all shareholder meetings. A web-based service…
EDM Council Brings InvestTech Systems Consulting into the Fold
It has been a while since the last new member joined data industry group the EDM Council, although its faithful following remain committed to the data management cause. This week investment technology, operations and data management solution consultancy InvestTech Systems Consulting has joined the fold. For those readers that may have been out of the…
CetrelSecurities and Aim Software Acquire First Joint Customer
CetrelSecurities, a specialist in providing ASP services to financial institutions with more than 20 active clients using the service, and Aim Software, a global provider of reference data management solutions to the financial industry, today announced that they have acquired a first common customer based on Aim Software’s Gain Golden Copy. Being a regulated company…
Formicary Launches New Version of RiskSeer to Transform and Improve Risk Management Processes
Formicary, a specialist technology integration company for the financial services industry, has launched the latest version of RiskSeer – its integrated Independent Price Verification application. Designed to transform and improve risk management processes, RiskSeer centralises market and trade data to facilitate accurate and timely decision making by the risk, product control and finance units of…