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The Low Latency Canary
The one constant in the world of financial markets IT is that nothing stays the same for very long. The world of market data feeds and the applications that process them is no exception. As data rates increase, and as processing systems (or any component of them) are upgraded and modified, performance can be hit….
CMA Appoints Peter Vitale Vice President, Sales
CMA, the credit information specialist, has appointed Peter Vitale as vice president, sales for its credit market pricing data (CMA DataVision) and intraday services (CMA QuoteVision). Vitale, previously head of sales at GFI’s Data & Analytics North America Division, will be based in New York, charged with responsibility for sales and account management globally.
Data Explorers Expands Client Relationship Management Team
Securities lending data provider Data Explorers has expanded its London and Boston sales and client services teams. Colette Vernon joins the CRM team in London, and Stephanie Le Blanc joins the Boston team, both reporting to Lucy McIntosh, head of client services. Vernon previously spent more than five years at Clearstream Banking as a senior…
Standard & Poor’s Appoints Burleigh Head of Sales EMEA
Standard & Poor’s has hired Damian Burleigh as head of sales and client service in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Burleigh, previously vice president, sales, Europe for S&P in London, will be responsible for sales and client relationships across Standard & Poor’s range of products and services.
Markit Expands Executive Team with Cameron Hire
Markit Group has appointed Niall Cameron to its executive management team. Cameron joins Markit as an executive vice president and will take responsibility for Markit’s Index Management and Equities businesses. Most recently Cameron was global head of traded markets and member of the global markets executive committee at ABN Amro, where he worked for more…
DTCC Picks up Penson Canada For Corporate Actions Data
Penson Financial Services Canada is the first Canadian clearing firm to use DTCC’s Global Corporate Action Validation Service (GCA VS). It joins a major Canadian bank among the users of the service, and DTCC says it is in active discussions with a number of other organisations in Canada about GCA VS. Susan Spivey, head of…
Markit Hires Ex-Morgan Stanley Man Gooch to Head Valuations
An outsourced portfolio valuations service could save the industry significant amounts of money by eliminating duplication of effort by investment banks, custodians and trustees. So believes Jeff Gooch, recently appointed to head Markit Group’s portfolio valuations and trade processing businesses. Gooch joins the Markit executive management team following an 11-year stint at Morgan Stanley, where…
Asset Control Upgrades Clients To New Version of TAPMaster
Asset Control has unveiled the third full feature release of TAPMaster, introducing fundamental new functions and offering increased performance, scalability and the security capabilities of the latest Microsoft technology. TAPMaster, which recently came into the fold of Asset Control’s offerings following its acquisition of TAP Solutions (Reference Data Review, April 2007), is an end-to-end Microsoft…
Eagle Lands Legacy Replacement Deal at Boutique Firm Trilogy
US-based Trilogy Global Advisors, a boutique emerging markets equities fund manager, is implementing technology from Eagle Investment Systems to help manage its portfolio. The Eagle suite of products will enable Trilogy to retire its legacy accounting system. According to John Lehner, president of Eagle Investment Systems, there are a couple of reasons for Trilogy’s decision…
Avox Includes Fitch Credit Opinions in Counterparty Data
Avox and global ratings agency Fitch Ratings have signed a co-operation agreement to enable linkages to Fitch company identifiers and credit opinions within Avox’s counterparty data offering. Avox supplements its clients’ data records with information from Fitch Ratings as part of its counterparty data validation, cleansing and maintenance service. Ken Price, CEO of Avox, says:…