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SmartCo Launches New, Faster Version of Smart Financial DataHub
Following on from its upgrade in October last year, EDM vendor SmartCo has released yet another new version of its Smart Financial DataHub (SFDH) solution, which it claims provides its clients with faster and more comprehensive market data management capabilities, additional security features and enhancements to key financial modules. Patrick Archer, SmartCo’s UK and US…
Poll Results: Operational Risk and Cost Top List of Concerns for RDR Readers
Operational risk and the desire for greater cost savings are the key issues driving financial institutions to invest in their data management infrastructure, according to the latest results of our reader poll. This result is unsurprising really, given the focus on doing ‘more for less’ in the current financial climate. What is perhaps more surprising…
SuperDerivatives Promotes Sela to FX and Cross Asset Product Manager
SuperDerivatives has promoted current pre-sales director, Udi Sela, to the position of FX and cross asset product manager. Sela, who has been with the vendor since 2005, will now lead the company’s FX and cross asset product functions and will report directly to Ravit Mandell, vice president for products. Prior to SuperDerivatives, Sela worked in…
Asset Control Poaches Misys’ McGranaghan for Product Management Role in NYC
Ex- head of development for Misys’ Treasury and Capital Markets division, Donal McGranaghan has joined Asset Control as senior vice president of product and development. Based in New York, he will lead product management and software development of the EDM vendor’s financial data management solutions. McGranaghan has also previously worked at Kindle Banking Systems, BIS…
Actuate and ClusterSeven Partner for Marketing of Spreadsheet Solutions
Actuate Corporation and ClusterSeven have signed a joint marketing agreement, under which the vendors will work together to tout their spreadsheet management solutions to the market as compliance and risk management enablers. The vendors have therefore combined their respective offerings, Actuate’s eSpreadsheet and ClusterSeven’s Enterprise Spreadsheet Manager, to gain extra clout in the tough economic…
Fitch Appoints Ex-Fidelity MD Hale as Head of Asia Pacific in Hong Kong
Credit ratings specialist Fitch has appointed ex-Fidelity executive Evan Hale as its new head of Fitch Asia Pacific in Hong Kong. He replaces Andrea Mueller, who left the firm in May 2008, and will report to Bernard De Lattre, group managing director at Fitch Ratings, who is based in Paris. Prior to this appointment, Hale…
Marshall & Ilsley Trust Company Sticks with XSP for Corporate Actions
Marshall & Ilsley Trust Company, a subsidiary of Wisconsin-based bank Marshall & Ilsley Corporation, has signed a multi-year renewal agreement for XSP’s v5 corporate actions solution. According to Wayne Klomstad, senior vice president of Marshall & Ilsley Trust Company, it decided to extend its agreement with the vendor to cover the eTRAN module because of…
S&P’s Capital IQ Integrates JunctionRDS UK Share Register Data onto Platform
Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ business has integrated UK share register data from London-based independent shareholder analysis house JunctionRDS into its platform. The data set allows users to view detailed ownership information on listed UK companies with breakout analysis of nominee shareholdings at both the investment manager and beneficial owner level, says the vendor. Ian…
Markit Rolls Out XSP Platform in London, New York and Singapore
Following the extended implementation of its solution at index provider FTSE Group in December, XSP has completed the rollout of its v5 corporate actions platform at Markit in London, New York and Singapore. Markit will use the solution to assist in the automation of some of the complex processes within its bespoke index calculation and…
New York Federal Reserve Poaches Citi’s Bottega as Chief Data Officer for its Markets Division
John Bottega’s no show at last year’s FIMA London event was noted by many and there was much speculation at the event that he was soon to leave his post as chief data officer for Citi’s Institutional Client Group. Reference Data Review can now indeed confirm that Bottega has moved onto pastures new: he has…