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Cicada Expands KYC Solution Business Development Team
Shaun Hassett has joined Cicada’s business development team as vice president of business development. He will be responsible for developing and expanding the company’s Cicada Profiler software business. Prior to Cicada, Hassett was national account manager at Accuity, a provider of data, software and services to help organizations maximize efficiency and meet their regulatory compliance…
Liverpool Victoria Asset Management (LVAM) Selects Cadis Software
Liverpool Victoria Asset Management (LVAM) has signed a deal to implement Cadis Software’s EDM Suite. Due to go live in less than three months, Cadis will serve as the backbone of LVAM’s new technology infrastructure and play an instrumental role in the company’s growth strategy, according to the vendor. This client win is the latest…
Eagle and Thomson Reuters Connect Data Management Systems
Eagle Investment Systems and Thomson Reuters have created a standard interface between Eagle’s data management solution and Thomson Reuters DataScope Select. The new standard interface allows clients to import DataScope Select security data into Eagle’s data management platform; both equity and fixed income securities are supported. “Eagle remains focused on delivering standardized interfaces to many…
Markit Announces Changes to Equities Team
The Markit Equities team is now led by Philippe Rivet, director and head of equity products in charge of sales, business development and client services and Paul Hodge, director and head of equity production, who takes responsibility for operations including dividend research, index management and reference data. John Price, managing director and founder of Markit…
SuperDerivatives Adds Liquidation ‘Exit’ Pricing Revaluation Services
Following developments over the past year, SuperDerivatives has released its new liquidation ‘Exit’ pricing to address the financial risk in OTC options in current market conditions. The firm made the move following growing client demand identified in discussions with customers, who are seeking more realistic pricing in light of current market conditions. Starting with initial…
Fitch Launches Pricing Service for Asset-Backed Credit Default Swaps
Fitch Solutions last month launched a new pricing service for asset-backed credit default swaps (ABCDSs). The new services is aimed at meeting what Fitch sees as growing demand for independent pricing that covers the ABS product spectrum. As such, the company is pitching the new service as complementary to its existing single-name credit-default swap and…
NYSE Euronext’s Liffe to Expand Use of Markit Dividend Forecasts in Pricing, Clearing Services
NYSE Euronext’s Liffe derivatives exchange is to broaden the range of consensus dividend forecasts from Markit it uses in its indicative options pricing model and in Bclear, its trade confirmation, administration and clearing service for wholesale equity derivatives. Liffe will expand the population of Markit dividend forecasts to cover predicted dividend amounts and due dates…
Brewin Dolphin Opts for Zoomix Accelerator for Instrument, Client Data Management
UK private client investment manager Brewin Dolphin has implemented Zoomix’s Accelerator enterprise data management platform to automate the matching, standardization and classification of hundreds of thousands of customer and financial data records. Accelerator is a so-called ‘self-learning’ data management platform that analyzes the relationships and meanings relevant to any data domain by observing decisions made…
Counterparty data just got more interesting…
Although financial institutions have had teams of people managing and cleansing entity data for decades, when CounterpartyLink was founded in 2005 the practice of turning to external sources for cleansed entity data and verification of one’s own data was a relatively new concept. Identified by backers Investors Guaranty and data platform provider Cicada as a…
F&C Becomes Latest To Join In Live Implementation of Cadis EDM Suite
Cadis Software’s flurry of client announcements continued this month with the news that F&C Investments had completed its implementation of the Cadis EDM Suite in support of its Charles River Development trading platform. The F&C news follows hot on the heels of last month’s announcement that Principal Global Investors had installed Cadis EDM to create…