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GoldenSource Expands Data Access
GoldenSource has introduced a series of connections to suppliers of high risk/high value data in areas such as derivatives, risk, pricing, corporate actions and counterparty data. The new connections to Markit RED, RIMES Fixed Income Benchmarks’ data platform, Bloomberg Extended BackOffice, Interactive Data FTS and IDC ISO 15022 are already in production at a number…
Symphony Asset Management Picks Paladyne for Central Data Repository
Paladyne Systems, solutions provider for the hedge fund industry, has licensed its Paladyne product suite to Symphony Asset Management, an investment advisor to a number of institutional accounts. Symphony has licensed the Paladyne product suite to use as its centralised reference and market data repository and firm-wide data warehouse and custom reporting solution. Symphony has…
EDI Adds Unit Trust Dividends to UK Dividend Service
Exchange Data International (EDI), provider of reference and corporate actions data, has integrated Unit Trust dividend information into its UK Dividend feed. Available as an additional set of the UK Dividend feed or on its own, the Unit Trust Dividend feed gives access to information like Group 1 and Group 2 distributions and equalisation rates…
Xtrakter Appoints Jinks Director of Commercial Operations
Xtrakter, part of the ICMA group of companies, has appointed Richard Jinks to the position of director of commercial operations. Jinks, who joins Xtrakter on March 3, will report directly to the chief executive and be a member of Xtrakter’s Executive Committee. Jinks previously held senior positions at Misys, Omgeo, Checkfree (formerly Heliograph) and most…
XSP Hires Rabon as Program Director, Maclean as Senior Business Analyst
Brian Rabon has joined XSP, provider of corporate actions software, as program director. Rabon joins XSP from Infinity Property and Casualty Corporation, where he was programming team leader, responsible for managing and developing a team of Java/.Net developers. In this newly-created role, Rabon will be responsible for all program management initiatives impacting XSP’s global IT…
A Night At The OPRA Maybe Ain’t So Bad
Please excuse the headline … I wanted to be cute and grab some attention. When it comes to market data rates, OPRA – the Options Price Reporting Authority – makes the headlines that low latency vendors (and industry analysts) love to cite – because the numbers are so frighteningly big. The reality, though, is a…
Datanomic Unveils New Version of Data Quality, Integration Platform
Data quality specialist Datanomic has released dn:Director 6.2, the latest version of its data quality and data integration platform. dn:Director 6.2 delivers automated web service generation for deployment of real-time transactional data quality services in a service-oriented architecture, the vendor claims. dn:Director offers an interactive learning environment for organisations to profile, audit, cleanse, parse, match…
CRIS Consortium to Provide Platform for Independent Valuation, Risk Management of Credit Derivatives
A consortium comprising Zeliade Systems, OTC-Conseil, JPLC, Dexia CL, Evry University and Microsoft France and dubbed CRIS (Credit Risk Services) plans to develop a platform for independent valuation and risk management of credit derivatives. The consortium will have its first test client in the second part of the year and there will be ongoing developments…
XSP Names BNY Mellon’s Anthony Scanga Business Analyst, Operations Group
XSP, provider of corporate actions software, has appointed Anthony Scanga as a business analyst within the operations group. Scanga, previously a corporate actions manager at The Bank of New York Mellon, will be responsible for client operations support, professional services engagements and global implementations, while working with the pre-sales and sales teams to support the…
LakeFront Adds Ian Mathers as Associate Partner
LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV) says Ian Mathers has joined the LDV Data Management Partner Program as a LakeFront associate partner. He will be concentrating his efforts on project management and implementation and process engineering and improvement. Mathers was most recently with Royal Bank of Canada and prior to that, he led the Project Management Improvement…