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DTCC Develops XML Format For Corporate Actions Data
DTCC is working to create a new XML based format for delivery of corporate actions announcement information via its Global Corporate Action Validation Service (GCA VS), scheduled for roll-out in early 2008. DTCC currently provides data in its own proprietary format and in ISO 15022. The inadequacy of the 15022 format for its purposes is…
Capco Re-Engineers Outsourcing Platform as SOA Draws on Opensource, Grid and Web Services
Capco has begun a project to re-engineer the technology infrastructure supporting its provision of managed reference data services, and plans to draw on opensource and grid technologies as well as Web Services, to improve integration with its clients’ operations. The provider’s aim is to improve automation and build in greater scalability to the platform, in…
S&P Becomes EDM Council’s First Data Vendor Sponsor
Standard & Poor’s has become the first data vendor to join the EDM Council as sponsor, where it will work alongside the likes of other new vendor sponsors ADP Brokerage Services Group and Deutsche Boerse-owned Avox (Reference Data Review, December 2006), to help develop effective solutions to manage data across the enterprise. Through its involvement…
CIG Supports AIM Software in US, Targets Mid Office Needs
New York based consultancy Computer Intelligence Group (CIG) has partnered with Austria based AIM Software to market, implement and support its reference data management platform GAIN in the US, with an initial focus on large banks, brokers and mutual funds in New York and Boston. The two companies – which are also working closely with…
Reuters Appoints IDC’s Oldham to Manage Asia Pacific Pricing Service
Malcolm Oldham, previously responsible for Interactive Data’s evaluated fixed income pricing throughout the Asia Pacific region, has joined Reuters to manage its Pricing Service, launched in Asia Pacific in March 2006. Oldham is based in Melbourne, and reports to Pricing Service management in New York.
Jordan & Jordan Hires Neil Edelstein as Director and Reference Data Specialist
Jordan & Jordan’s Management Consulting Practice has appointed Neil Edelstein as director and reference data specialist. Edelstein joins Jordan & Jordan from Accenture where he was a senior manager of data management services.
Lehman’s Paula Hardy Appointed FISD Programme Director
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association has appointed Paula Hardy as program director. Joining FISD after 13 years at Lehman Brothers, where she was most recently vice president for contracts and vendor management, Hardy started at FISD on January 8 and is based in Washington, DC.
Savitsky and Geraghty Join Markit as ABS specialists
Markit Group has appointed James Savitsky and Thomas Geraghty as directors within its global asset backed securities (ABS) sales and product development teams. Savitsky, who joins from Trepp, will coordinate Markit’s ABS sales effort globally, distributing the firm’s data and analytics services for the structured finance markets. Geraghty, formerly man-aging director at Wall Street Analytics,…
Richard Bemindt Named as Chief Technology Officer of Capco’s Managed Services
Capco has appointed Richard Bemindt as chief technology officer for the Managed Services business of Capco. Bemindt, previously from Applimation, will be based in New York, where he will work to enhance CRDS’s ability to service its client base.
Looking into the EDM Crystal Ball By Michael Atkin, managing director, EDM Council Inc
It seems like only yesterday we were talking simply about reference data with lots of debate over definitions, an underlying focus on operational efficiency and a business case cut straight from the technology ROI rulebook. My, my how quickly things have changed. Reference data has evolved into EDM. Risk mitigation has replaced operational efficiency. And…