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EDM Council Marks Third Anniversary During Sifma
The EDM Council marked its third anniversary during the Sifma Technology Management Conference in New York this month. Since its formation in 2005, the not-for-profit organisation has grown in size from a dozen founding members to more than 50 financial institutions, data vendors, software companies and integration providers. “Today, most firms are actively engaged in…
The heat is on
Tough times lie ahead for the market, but technology and better management of data will continue to be valuable differentiators, delegates to this year’s Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma) Technology Management Conference were told. Although the securities industry has recently experienced billion dollar write-downs, serious reductions in headcount and widespread cost cutting, firms’…
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…