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Factbook Appoints New Chief Operating Officer
Factbook, a specialist provider of fund reporting, marketing and data management solutions to the investment community today announces the appointment of Andrew Cheeseman to the newly created position of chief operating officer. He will be responsible for helping Factbook scale its operations, expand market presence and focus on ensuring that Factbook continues to effectively and…
FISD Confers Lifetime Achievement Award on Stuart Clark
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) today announced that Stuart Clark, former president and CEO of Interactive Data Corporation, is the recipient of FISD’s third Market Data Lifetime Achievement Award. The honor recognizes a long and distinguished career dedicated to the advancement of the financial information industry….
Fincad Partners with Cerebra to Help Buy Side Clients Integrate Derivatives Analytics with Front Office Systems
Fincad, a provider of derivatives analytics, and Cerebra, a London-based front office technology consultancy, today announced that Cerebra has joined the Fincad Alliance Programme. The new partnership enables Cerebra to leverage its expertise with Fincad’s analytics library in implementation projects with large buy side clients to meet their derivatives valuations needs. Cerebra’s experienced consultants operate…
Fidelity ActionsXchange Looking Beyond Corporate Actions Cleansing, Say Pollard and Culhane
Just over a year after her appointment to the helm of Fidelity ActionsXchange, Laura Pollard indicates that the traditionally corporate actions focused vendor is set to expand its reference data reach under her leadership. The vendor is considering expanding its data cleansing solutions to areas such as entity data and moving further down the corporate…
Icap and Fincad Add More Front End Functions to Derivatives Valuations Solution
Following the launch of their combined effort in the derivatives valuations space in July, interdealer broker Icap and financial analytics vendor Fincad have added new functionality to their Fair Value Insight solution. The web-based derivatives valuation solution, which is built on Fincad’s analytics and Icap’s market data, now features the ability for users to directly…
Interactive Data Promotes Duggan for the Second Time This Year, Adds TALF Offering to Evaluations Portfolio
Following the recent departure of Shant Harootunian, Liz Duggan has received her second promotion in the space of a year, as she steps into Harootunian’s shoes as managing director of Interactive Data’s Evaluations business. The vendor has also recently signed an exclusive agreement with Prism Valuation to offer the vendor’s valuations for loans made available…
Fitch Releases Global Money Market Fund Rating Criteria
Fitch today released updated rating criteria for money market funds, with particular emphasis on funds that invest in short term debt instruments issued by financial institutions, non-financial corporations and asset backed commercial paper programmes (often referred to as ‘prime’ funds). Prime money market funds were central to the financial crisis last year following the failure…
Sterci Expands its Activities in Central Europe and Appoints Sauberer as Area Manager
Sterci, a financial messaging, reconciliation and data management vendor, is expanding its footprint in Central Europe with the appointment of Georg Sauberer as area manager. Based in Vienna Austria, he will be in charge of developing the business for Sterci and strengthening its footprint in new geographical areas. “With his unique network and knowledge in…
CESR Releases Consultation Paper on Trade Repositories in the Derivatives Market: Data Standards on the Regulatory Agenda Again
Echoing the discussions going on over the pond on the subject, the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has just released a new consultation paper examining the need for a trade repository for OTC derivatives data. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Mary Schapiro has been talking about the need for a greater…
Data Migration Problems Haven’t Changed in 10 Years, Say Datanomic and Iergo
The same problems that were occurring in the market 10 years ago around data migration are still with us today, according to compliance and data management solution vendor Datanomic and data migration focused vendor Iergo. The vendors discussed the importance of data quality tools in the migration process at an event in London yesterday. Businesses…