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As the “credit crunch” blame game plays itself out, some hefty criticism is being meted out to various quarters of the industry, not least the regulators and the ratings agencies for their alleged failure to act sooner to stem the tide of fall-out from the sub-prime crisis in the US. A lot of people are…
Swift Promises Controlled Migration To ISO 20022 CA Messages
ISO 20022 versions of the Swift messages that have been the foundation for much of the industry’s progress in automating corporate actions are to be made available by the end of Q4 2009 at the latest, under plans recently formulated by the co-operative. There will be a period of co-existence of ISO 20022 and the…
Bank of New York Mellon Reviews Legacy Reference Data Assets
The Bank of New York Mellon is currently analysing the reference data assets inherited from both the Bank of New York and Mellon pre-merger, as part of its efforts to create a “best of breed” platform to support its clients going forward. A decision is expected by the end of this year on what the…
Benchmarking the Benchmarks
In the world of low latency, it seems that benchmarks are headline news. Having readily available figures showing xxx microseconds and yyy hundreds of thousands of updates per second is a pretty sure way to get some press coverage for one’s product. Indeed, I find myself asking of vendors who are pushing their new datafeed…
A Low Latency History Lesson
I’m in the green and pleasant land, aka England, trying to partake in some R&R. But I can’t escape work, even when I am in historic Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace and later home of William Shakespeare. It seems the Bard knew a thing or two about low latency, or at least about leveraging it. Indeed, “Make use…
Paladyne Names Simmonds to Head Europe
Paladyne Systems has named David Simmonds, formerly of Misys to head its new London Office.
PolarLake Apponts Brazel as Chairman
PolarLake has appointed Patrick Brazel, an industry veteran of 25 years, as chairman. Brazel is also chairman of GoldTier.
Williams Departs as U.K. MD of Citadel Associates
Jean Williams, U.K. managing director of buy side data management solutions vendor Citadel Associates, is no longer with the company. At press time, her whereabouts could not be ascertained.
Buzzelli to Depart Mellon to Join Reuters
Brian Buzzelli, who has led Mellon Financial’s foray into provision and management of reference data as part of its securities administration services offerings, is leaving the custody bank to join Reuters’ enterprise data group as part of the DataScope team. Further details weren’t available at press time.
Koch Quits Telekurs Just Weeks after Assuming New Marketing Policy Role
Telekurs Financial veteran Beat Koch has decided to leave the company. Koch most recently was head of the Swiss vendor’s global marketing policies & project function, a role he assumed under a major reorganization this spring. Before that, he was head of Telekurs Financial’s U.K. operating subsidiary and had led other subsidiaries in the past….