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Fascet Partners with Hosting Vendor Rackspace to Support SaaS Offering

US-based enterprise data management (EDM) solution vendor Fascet has signed a partnership agreement with hosting specialist Rackspace to support its new software as a solution (SaaS) offering. Accordingly, the vendor has been enabled to offer its Fascet Trade Communicator, a post-trade notification solution that processes any asset type including complex OTC derivatives, in a SaaS…

Goebel Joins Fiserv as New CIO

Maryann Goebel has joined Fiserv as executive vice president and chief information officer, reporting to the CEO. “Maryann’s proven success leading a variety of complex technology environments is a great addition to the aggregate strength of the Fiserv management team,” says Jeffery Yabuki, president and CEO of Fiserv. “Her vast experience as the technology architect…

Westpac’s Putnam Joins QuIC to Head Biz Dev and Support in Asia

QuIC Financial Technologies, a global solutions provider of risk management, pricing and financial analytics, has appointed Mark Putnam to manage business development and support in the Asia Pacific region. Based in Sydney, Australia and reporting to the sales director North America and Asia, Putnam will focus on driving sales and forging strategic business relationships for…

This Year’s Sifma One of the Best

I realise that might be a contrarian view. Speaking to many at last week’s show – The Sifma Technology Management conference & Exhibit is its full name – the main topic of conversation was how small it was, how empty it was. One veteran reckoned it reminded him of when it was hosted at the…

Broadridge Financial Solutions Steps up to the Plate for Reference Data

It has undoubtedly been a busy start to the year for Broadridge Financial Solutions, with the signing of a number of partnership agreements in March and the launch of whole host of new solutions over recent months. One such endeavour is its venture into the corporate actions space, in concert with its wider push into…

CFTC and SEC Divvy up Derivatives Pie, CME’s Donohue Expresses Concern About Illiquid Derivatives

Following a brief hiatus, the turf war is back on between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Just how the two regulators will divide up the oversight of the derivatives market is currently being debated across the industry and could have wide ramifications for those involved in the…

Fincad Launches Software Development Kit for Pricing Analytics Integration

Fincad has launched a new software development kit that provides software vendors, banks and hedge funds with the ability to integrate Fincad analytics into new and existing systems. F3 SDK enables comprehensive measurement of the risk for all market data inputs at the trade or portfolio level. Built on a new object oriented architecture, F3…

South Africa’s Prescient Selects Eagle Investment Systems’ Access ASP

Eagle Investment Systems, a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon, has been selected by Prescient to deliver its integrated investment management suite via its application service provider (ASP), Eagle Access. Prescient, with R60 billion under management in South Africa, selected the Eagle suite to streamline its growing local and global operations. Eagle will…

EuroMTS Adds More Data and Functionality to Reference Data Platform

European fixed income securities marketplace, EuroMTS, has added more data and functionality to its online reference data platform, which it launched in collaboration with Exchange Data International (EDI) in October last year. The offering, aimed at providing descriptive, non-real-time information relating to all bonds listed on the MTS Markets, now features MTS Time Series data,…

Euroclear Nederland Plans Launch of Shareholder Identification Service

Euroclear Nederland, the central securities depository (CSD) for all Dutch securities, is proposing to offer a service to help equity issuers identify the ultimate holders of their shares. As a result, investors would be able to more easily exercise their rights and duties as shareholders, and issuers would be in a better position to communicate…