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Two Client Wins, a Partnership Agreement and an Upgrade for Eagle
It has been a busy couple of months for Eagle Investment Systems. Not only has the vendor released Version 9 of its data management, investment accounting and performance measurement suite, it has also signed a deal with Sun Microsystems to allow Access to be available via Sun Solaris 10 OS. It has also completed two…
S&P and SuperDerivatives Partner to Create Largest Valuations Portal
Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations, a global provider of independent securities evaluations and derivatives specialist SuperDerivatives have established a sales and marketing alliance to target the fixed income securities and OTC and exchange-traded derivatives market. The resulting combined offering represents the largest independent valuation portal in terms of both geographic and asset class coverage. The…
Omgeo Appoints Kumar, Johnston, Burkley and Robson to Board
Omgeo, the post-execution trade management solutions provider including Alert for standing settlement instructions (SSIs), has added four new members to its board of managers. The new board members include Naresh Kumar, managing director and global head of operations of the institutional clients group at Citi, Peter Johnston, managing director of global securities and clearing operations…
Interactive Data Introduces Earlier Delivery Time for Global Reference Data
Interactive Data Corporation now delivers start of day reference data for North American equities at 1am EST for its Pricing and Reference Data business. This is seven hours earlier than previously available and is in advance of the opening of trading in Europe. Marty Williams, vice president of reference data product development at Interactive Data…
Markit Appoints Deutsche Bank’s Schüler as Sales and Marketing MD
Data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing vendor Markit has appointed ex-Deutsche Bank credit products specialist Marcus Schüler as managing director of sales and marketing. Schüler will be based in London and will be responsible for Markit’s relationships with regulators, central banks, trade associations and accounting firms, across the vendor’s complete range of products…
Deutsche Börse Appoints Sachsenweger Head of Back Office, Heer Joins WM Datenservice as MD
Following the departure of Markus Heer, Deutsche Börse has appointed Stefan Sachsenweger as head of back office. Heer, who has worked for Deutsche Börse for the last four years, will now join German financial information service provider WM Datenservice as managing director. Prior to his appointment as head of back office, Sachsenweger worked in the…
Avox Signs Partnership with Xinhua Finance to Extend Business into China
Business entity data specialist Avox has signed a partnership agreement with financial information and media service provider Xinhua Finance to extend its reach into the Chinese market. The agreement represents the first level of partnership with Xinhua Finance and involves an arrangement for the Chinese firm to distribute international business entity data to the local…
Interactive Data Makes Pricing Data Available Through ValueLink’s PriceValidation Service
Interactive Data Corporation(IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, is making data from its Pricing and Reference Data business available through ValueLink’s PriceValidation service, the company is announcing on booth # 1405. Through PriceValidation, ValueLink acts as a service facilitator taking raw data from customers’ chosen data vendors and subjecting…
Interactive Data Delivers Indicative Valuations for Exchange Traded Notes and Values for Market Indices
Interactive Data Corporation (booth # 1405) a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, today announced that it can now deliver indicative intra-day valuations for exchange traded notes (ETNs) and values for market indices. Interactive Data’s Basket Calculation ServiceSM, which also offers intra-day indicative optimized portfolio values (IOPVs) for equity and fixed income…
GoldenSource Releases Version 8 of its EDM Suite
GoldenSource, booth # 3109 has released version 8 of its EDM platform, which the vendor says offers advanced functionality for managing business risk, particularly in high risk areas such as corporate actions, pricing and data quality. Version 8 is built around a standards-based J2EE application server framework, thus making it easier to configure, integrate and…