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GoldenSource Hires Broggi to Expand Sales Strategies for Southern Europe and Middle East
EDM vendor GoldenSource Corporation has hired Massimo Broggi as sales manager for Southern Europe and the Middle East. Based in Milan, he will be responsible for developing and expanding business strategies for the vendor in the region, with particular emphasis on helping local clients implement data management strategies to manage risk related to derivatives operations,…
XSP Achieves SwiftReady Corporate Actions Label Accreditation
XSP’s v5 platform has achieved the SwiftReady Corporate Actions Label accreditation for 2008 in conjunction with Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for Swift, the SwiftReady Financial Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) product. This is the fourth consecutive year that XSP has received this accreditation.
LSE Migrates Sedol Masterfile onto UnaVista, Adds Broker Matching Utility
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has revealed plans to migrate its centralised reference and financial data management solution, Sedol Masterfile, onto UnaVista, its global matching, reconciliation, data integration and validation service. The exchange operator has also launched a new service for the central matching of post-trade data across prime brokers, executing brokers and hedge funds…
HSBC Selects Petra Financial for Payments Reference Data
HSBC has selected Petra Financial as a partner to provide a new tool that will allow the bank’s clients to validate BIC and IBAN details before the submission of a payment or, if required, to derive these details from a bank name, address and Basic Bank Account Number (BBAN), subject to counterparty verification. The tool,…
Valuations Have Hit the Mainstream, Says New Report from A-Team Group
Valuations are no longer merely a concern for the back office; recent events have meant that they have finally hit the mainstream, according to research by A-Team Group, publisher of this news service. High profile failures and frauds relating to the mis-pricing of assets have made valuations headline news, says Ian Blance, author of the…
Korea’s Shinhan Aitas Picks SmartStream Technologies’ TLM for Corporate Actions
Korean fund administrator Shinhan Aitas, part of the Shinhan Financial Group, has selected SmartStream Technologies’ TLM Corporate Actions to feed corporate events into its client reports. Kees Middendorp, senior consultant, corporate actions, for SmartStream Asia Pacific, explains that the administrator, which provides outsourcing services to fund managers in the region, selected the solution as part…
CheckFree eVent Receives SwiftReady Accreditation
Fiserv’s corporate actions processing solution, CheckFree eVent, has received SwiftReady accreditation for the fifth time. The accreditation reflects the solution’s ability to provide comprehensive support of Swift standards and market practice and it was tested by Swift’s Simulation Testing and Qualification Service (STaQs), to ensure the validation of messaging outputs, such as ISO 15022 MT…
SuperDerivatives Appoints Ex-IBM Hod to Lead Strategic Sales
SuperDerivatives has appointed ex-IBM derivatives and trade processing head Zohar Hod as vice president of strategic sales. Hod specialises in front office to back office derivatives trading, processing, risk management and algorithmic trading, and will be in charge of the vendor’s key accounts. He will be based in the New York office and will be…
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Appoints Wywoda Head of Global Product Management
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has appointed Dan Wywoda, senior vice president, as head of global product management to replace Gunjan Kedia who has decided to leave the company. Wywoda will continue to be based in Boston and will report to Tim Keaney, co-CEO of BNY Mellon Asset Servicing. In this new role, Wywoda will assume…
Markit Updates RED Following Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Rescue
Following the government rescue of US mortgage providers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Markit has issued new versions of its CDX indices and the affected Markit RED codes, which include references to either of the providers. The rescue is classified as a bankruptcy credit event under the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) credit derivative…