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Interactive Data Ties With Financial Express for UK Funds Data
Germany-headquartered Interactive Data Corporation says its Managed Solutions group has enhanced its funds data with information supplied by UK data supplier Financial Express. The offering, which comprises data for more than 15,000 funds licensed in the UK and covers all funds classes, is available via Interactive Data Managed Solutions’ Funds Suite product. Fact sheets and…
Data Management Software Provider Siperian Bags $25M in Expansion Funding
Master data management (MDM) platform provider Siperian says it has closed an oversubscribed $25 million Series E financing. Led by new investor, Investor Growth Capital (IGC), and with participation from 100 per cent of Siperian’s existing investors, the funding will be used to continue the company’s European expansion, accelerate channel development and further advance the…
Reuters Launches Bespoke Derivatives Pricing for Hard to Value Instruments
Reuters has launched a pricing service that delivers bespoke valuations for derivatives and complex securities – Reuters DataScope Derivatives Pricing Service. Using the service, customers can request a price for bespoke transactions, with completely transparent Reuters pricing and methodology behind each valuation. The service complements Reuters DataScope Select, which already provides prices for instruments that…
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… While Telekurs’ Newbury Jumps Ship to Barclays Global Investors
Richard Newbury, formerly head of product management at Telekurs UK, has started his new role in the knowledge team at Barclays Global Investors.
Telekurs Fills Long-Vacant UK MD Role as Cole Joins from CounterpartyLink…
Martin Cole has joined Telekurs UK as managing director, taking a position that has been unfilled since early last year. Cole comes from legal entity data specialist CounterpartyLink, where he was head of sales and marketing. He brings 20 plus years of experience in the industry, including a stint as managing director, UK and Ireland,…
GoldenSource’s McCormick Follows Lind to Omgeo
Omgeo, the Thomson Financial/DTCC-owned provider of post-trade, pre-settlement services including Alert for standing settlement instructions (SSIs), has hired Fritz McCormick as data business director. McCormick comes from GoldenSource, where he was vice president of business development and alliances. Prior to that he worked at analyst Celent. McCormick is responsible for the evolution of Omgeo’s data…
Existing Regulation Could Spur On Corporate Actions STP, Aite Predicts
The lack of an explicit regulatory imperative to address the efficiency of corporate actions processing is often cited as a reason for the industry’s lack of progress towards this goal. While it’s true that efforts like Giovannini do include corporate actions, there is no specific directive or legislation that demands firms meet a standard for…
Reuters Adds Hourly Corporate Actions Updates to Meet Algo Trading-Driven Need for Timely Event Data
Reuters has added an enhancement to Reuters DataScope Select which will see its corporate actions data updated hourly, rather than once a day. Users will be able to monitor portfolios more actively by choosing how often they receive updates and paying according to the quantity of data they use, Reuters says. The release of the…
Interactive Data’s Ian Blance Takes OTC Derivatives Valuations Experience to OTC Val Strategic Sales Role
Vancouver-based provider of independent valuations for derivatives and complex products OTC Valuations Limited (OTC Val) has marked a concerted push into the European marketplace and an ambition to grow worldwide with the hire of Ian Blance, recently ex of Interactive Data (Reference Data Review @ FIMA, November 5 2007), as vice president of strategic sales….