A-Team Insight Blogs The latest content from across the platform
Reuters Grows Third-Party Alliance Program with New Deals
Reuters has secured another four partnerships with software providers in its drive to “set up as many strategic alliances as possible”. And with 25% of their revenues – and growing – for the DataScope reference data service coming from the program, it’s little wonder that it is becoming an increasingly important strategy for the company….
Osney Event: Buy-Side Discuss Reference Data Resource, ROI
The resources of the buy-side often can’t compare with those of the sell-side when it comes to reference data management and measuring the cost impact of bad data in order to justify data management projects. This was one of the messages from a recent Technology Solutions for Asset Management (TSAM) conference organized by Osney Media….
IBEI and the Ten-Year Rush Towards Implementation By Gary Wright MSI, CityCompass Research
The planned International Business Entity Identifier (IBEI) – a unique identification system for investing and trading parties in the securities market – has been a long-standing objective since Swift allowed non-banking entities onto their network and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) lost control of central market trading. It’s not that long ago that to execute…
McLean Joins Reuters Enterprise Information from S&P
Miranda McLean has joined Reuters Enterprise Information division to head marketing efforts within Europe. McLean will continue to be based in London and will report to Kelly Lavelle, global head of marketing for division. She joins from Standard & Poor’s where she spent two years as director of business development and marketing. Prior to that,…
FISD Taps Alvarez for Securities Model Chairman Role
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) has appointed Marc Alvarez as chairman of the Securities Model Working Group. Alvarez is executive vice president of products and marketing at data management firm Tap Solutions. As chairman, he will provide strategic direction for the group as it evaluates the administrative, technological, and taxonomy issues relating to market…
Dolan Joins GoldenSource Team in Sales & Marketing
Pat Dolan has joined GoldenSource as vice president EMEA sales and marketing. Here he will report directly to chief executive officer Mike Meriton. Dolan was previously global head of sales at Strategic Communications Software, and has previously worked at Cognotec, Dow Jones and Standard & Poor’s.
Yaron Takes Over from Esler at Bear Stearns
Bear Stearns’ managing director and principle Paul Yaron has become the new head of reference data services following the departure of Peter Esler earlier this year (RDR, May 2005).
Crammond to Spearhead Markit’s Asia Pac Development
Markit continues to expand its Asian practice, with a new office opening in Singapore to be run by David Crammond. Crammond joins from ABN Amro, where he was head of structured asset sales for the Asian region. Before then, he was based in ABN’s New York office, running structured credit sales. At Markit, he will…
S&P Further Boosts Securities Evaluations Group with Dooley Hire
Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations group has added Michael Dooley to its Interest Rate Swaps pricing team. Dooley has previously worked at firms including Prudential Securities, Sumitomo Bank Securities, and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. He joins a growing team following more hires last month (RDR, May 2005). Prior to bringing Dooley on board, Standard…
Should the Registrars Become a Data Vendor? By Gary Wright MSI, CityCompass Research
The problem with data in the securities industry today is there is too much of it coming from too many different sources and in too many different forms. The cost therefore of gaining the data you want and need, has never been greater and this is in the 21st Century with the world of the…