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Mellon’s Harkins Offers Guide To Successful Team Building
People – specifically, finding the right ones, training them appropriately and hanging onto them – were key themes at this month’s ‘Reference Data Management: Challenges and Solutions’ symposium hosted by Telekurs in New York. The symposium, also featuring Dun & Bradstreet’s Keith Webster, Telekurs’ Barry Raskin and Reference Data Review’s own Andrew Delaney, offered insight…
A-Team Analysis: Will the Securities Data Model Fly?
At the Sibos Standards Forum in Sydney earlier this month, securities data came under the spotlight during a panel session designed to fill delegates in on the progress of ISO TC68/SC4/WG11, the ISO working group charged with the development of ISO 19312. For the uninitiated, ISO 19312 is the planned standard for financial instrument data….
Bank Deploys Aleri Stream-Processing Platform for Ref Data
Stream-processing technology is big news in the market data world, where the demands of algorithmic trading are driving investment in solutions to support high-volume, low-latency, fast-moving environments. To date, it has not been widely suggested that low latency was so important in the context of reference data, but an early sign that streaming technology could…
CounterpartyLink Inks Deal With Nomura International
Nomura International has signed a three-year agreement to take legal entity data from CounterpartyLink. According to the vendor the international arm of the big Japanese bank is using its legal entity data product to validate and enhance its entity reference database. Nomura’s entity data files are compared to the corresponding entity records held by CounterpartyLink,…
Siperian Brings Client Data Management System to Europe
Providers of counterparty and client data management solutions in Europe face new competition from California based Siperian, which in partnership with Deutsche Boerse-owned counterparty data specialist Avox has secured a soon-to-be-announced deal with what it describes as a major European bank. On the back of this, Siperian is beefing up its presence in Europe, opening…
Asset Control Bags E*Trade, Calyon, Sets Sights on Asia-Pacific
As its deal with E*Trade increases its tally of U.S. customers, Netherlands-based data management platform vendor Asset Control is setting its sights on the Asia-Pacific region, as well as planning to leverage its data management platform to create vertical solutions. Asset Control has announced two sales this month. The E*Trade Securities subsidiary of E*Trade Financial…
President Role Propels Ex-SunGard Man Richards to BPS
Dale Richards, the ex-SunGard executive vice-president who launched its enterprise data management strategy, has been named president of BPS (Business Propulsion Systems), provider of enterprise governance, risk and compliance solutions. Since leaving SunGard, the former FAME CEO had been running LakeFront Data Ventures, a company seeking to build a network of small EDM providers. Richards’…
Reuters Trumpets Early Signings For Asian Evaluations Service
Reuters reports strong levels of interest in its recently launched Asian fixed-income evaluated pricing service, and says it has already signed up users. The service covers six currencies – the Australian dollar, the Hong Kong dollar, the Japanese yen, the new Taiwan dollar, the New Zealand dollar and the Singapore dollar – and some 20,000…
Xcitek Makes Three New Hires for its Sales Team
Xcitek has brought three newcomers into its sales force. Patricia Reilly, previously director of data services and a relationship manager at DTCC, has joined the company in the newly created role of sales executive. In another newly created position Lynne Wilson, formerly account director of financial services at CAPITA Advisory Services, joins the company as…
Bryan Makes Way for Brown at Helm of Omgeo
Omgeo, provider of the Alert SSI database and other post-trade, pre-settlement trade management services, will have a new president and CEO from November 1. Marianne Brown replaces Adam Bryan, Omgeo’s CEO for its first five years, in the role at the company jointly owned by Thomson Financial and DTCC. Brown has previously been CEO of…