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Reuters Offers Bear Stearns CDS Prices Alongside Composite
Reuters has teamed with Bear Stearns Pricing Direct (PricingDirect) to provide its customers with credit default swaps and interest rate swaps prices from PricingDirect, alongside its own composite. For Bear Stearns Pricing Direct, this is an opportunity to tap into a significant distribution network, especially outside the US. According to Bob Rose, senior managing director,…
ABN Amro Takes On Nick Skinner, Ex of GoldenSource…
ABN Amro has recruited Nick Skinner – formerly of GoldenSource and ADP Wilco – as head of market data, global reference data management, operations shared services.
Soliton’s Nazir Noormohamed Takes Role at Acquirer SunGard
Contrary to early reports, Nazir Noormohamed, formerly CEO of the Soliton TimeSquare business recently acquired by SunGard, is staying at the company as managing director, SunGard TimeSquare and Managed Services.
… While GoldenSource Names Peter Leichsenring Head of Central and Southern European Sales
Enterprise Data Management solutions provider GoldenSource Corporation has named Peter Leichsenring head of sales for Central and Southern Europe, focusing on Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain and Italy. Initially recruited to the company in December 2004 to build a channel sales programme, Leichsenring previously ran channel and alliance programmes at Tibco Software.
Peter O’Keefe to Execute Swift’s Securities Reference Data Strategy
Peter O’Keefe, formerly of Nomura, has been appointed manager of Swift’s Security Reference Data Group, with a brief to execute on the co-operative’s strategy for securities reference data.
Rick Enfield Joins Citadel Associates from Charles River Development
Citadel Associates has hired Rick Enfield as head of North American operations, responsible for professional services, support, training and administration. Enfield comes from Charles River Development, where he was director of the product management group. Prior to that he was a vice president at State Street.
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…