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Asset Control Enlarges On Standard Chartered Project
Asset Control has released details of its implementation of the AC PriceMaster platform at Standard Bank last year. The Hong Kong- and London-based bank announced last spring that it was live at four main offices with AC PriceMaster for management of market rates in support of its risk analysis activities (Reference Data Review, May 2005)….
ValueLink and Reuters Extend Relationship
ValueLink Information Services and Reuters have extended their relationship by increasing the amount of Reuters data carried by ValueLink as well as increasing Reuters’ status to a key provider. ValueLink provides financial data collection, consolidation and cleansing, and offers tailored solutions, which can be delivered in the format the customer desires. Reuters first forged its…
Interactive Data Picks Ivaliotis to Lead Marketing Strategy
Interactive Data Corp. has named Mary Ivaliotis vice president and chief marketing officer, with responsibility for developing the overall brand and marketing strategy for Interactive Data, and its FT Interactive Data, Comstock, CMS BondEdge and eSignal businesses. Ivaliotis was most recently executive vice president of global markets at Telerate, and previously held positions at prior…
Counterparty Link Installs Cole to Head Product Management
Martin Cole has joined Counterparty Link as head of the product management team. He was previously managing director of Dun & Bradstreet, U.K. and Ireland, a role he took on in July 2003. Prior to that, he spent 16 years with Reuters, holding a variety of sales and marketing positions, including marketing director for U.K….
Xcitek Expands European Team with Digby, Fullam
Xcitek has expanded its London-based team with the addition of Paul Fullam, vice president and manager of global services, to support implementations for new European clients of its flagship XSP software solution. The corporate actions software vendor has also appointed Matt Digby as senior business analyst for XSP in Europe. His responsibilities will include business…
Atkin Quits Outsell for Staff Director Role at Enterprise Data Management Council
Well, we called it (Reference Data Review, June 2005). After just a few months with legal, scientific and B2B market research firm Outsell, Mike Atkin has moved on to become the staff director of the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council The move was hardly unexpected; Atkin’s long experience with Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of…
State Street, SSISearch to Offer Standard Access to SSI Data
State Street Corp.’s State Street Global Markets trading arm has teamed up with SSISearch to offer a so-called open industry standard for standard settlement instructions and other settlement information. The move brings State Street and SSISearch into the currently underserved area of standard settlement instructions, which has seen several industry initiatives take flight, but none…
Baer, Winterflood Pick ValueLink For Price Data Management
Julius Baer Investment Ltd. (JBIL), an investment management arm of the Swiss bank specializing in fixed-income securities, has selected ValueLink Information Services to provide daily pricing collection for its closing portfolio valuations. Meanwhile, Winterflood Securities has said it will use ValueLink’s Shares in Issue service, which provides data validation of third-party feeds. At JBIL, ValueLink…
Xcitek Installs Piraino as SVP Sales Operations
Frank Piraino has joined Xcitek as senior vice president with responsibility for managing client relationships and sales operations for the company’s flagship corporate actions software solution in New York. He was previously vice president of global sales operations and marketing for GoldenSource Corp.
FISD Names TAP Solutions’ Alvarez to Board
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software and Information Industry Association has named Marc Alvarez, EVP products and marketing at TAP Solutions, to its board as chairman of its Securities Model Working Group.