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Standard & Poor’s Expands Valuations Via Exclusive Arrangement with CSV
Hot on the heels of its new evaluated pricing service for the European structured finance marketplace, Standard & Poor’s has struck an exclusive alliance with New York-based Complex Security Valuations Inc. (CSV) to provide valuations for complex, illiquid and hard-to-value securities. The deal will expand both companies’ offerings in the space, and establish a combined…
Role Swapping at Xenomorph
Greg Johnson has risen to become chief executive officer of data and decision support platform provider Xenomorph. The company’s former CEO and co-founder Brian Sentance has taken on the marketing role. The role swapping was decided by the four founders, who have majority ownership of the company and all of whom, says Sentance, “Look to…
Reuters Taps Adsatis/Credit Dimensions’ Hodgson for Client Data Role
Reuters has appointed Jonathan Hodgson as product business owner for counterparty & compliance data. He was previously business development director at Adsatis, and also acted as European business development director for Adsatis’s joint venture company, Credit Dimensions, a supplier of counterparty data management services to the banking community. He reports to Tim Shortland, global head…
Xcitek Names Villardi to XSP Client Relationship Role
Daniel Villardi, Sr. has joined Xcitek as account relationship manager for its flagship corporate actions software solution, XSP. He was previously responsible for corporate actions processing at the Bank of New York. Villardi will report to Frank Piraino, senior vice president, XSP client relationship management and sales operations, and will be responsible for post-implementation relations…
SunGard’s Fame Taps Garland for Energy Sales
SunGard has named Jim Garland sales director, Americas, for its Fame Energy managed data solutions business. Based in Houston, Garland will be responsible for generating new business and expanding the North and South American presence for its Fame Energy managed data services.
Smith Leaves Bloomberg Data License Team
Oliver Smith has left Bloomberg, where he was account manager for the company’s Data License reference data product. No word on his new residence yet.
Capco Leaps Into Managed Data Services With Acquisition of ING’s Security Master
Capco is to acquire the security master file platform of Dutch bank ING Group as part of a deal under which Capco Reference Data Services will provide ING with managed data services under a seven-year deal. In a move reminiscent of IBM’s acquisition of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein’s data management platform as part of IBM’s Project…
Standard & Poor’s Launches Evaluations for Euro ABS/MBSs
Standard & Poor’s has unveiled a new bond evaluations pricing service catering to the European structured finance marketplace. The move is aimed at filling a gap in the marketplace, which is plagued by lack of transparency particularly for illiquid asset- and mortgage-backed securities. The move marks Standard & Poor’s entrance to the European bond evaluations…
The Proof is in the Pudding
Lunch – London, so curry, of course – with a disillusioned reference data friend the other day leads us to take stock a bit of where this reference data marketplace has arrived, and from whence it came. Reference Data Review will be four years old this year. Looking back over the archive – as we…
Bloomberg Adds Access to S&P/MSCI Barra’s GICS Classifications
Bloomberg has added access to the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), jointly developed by Standard & Poor’s and MSCI Barra, to its Bloomberg Professional market data terminal service. The GICS methodology classifies more than 33,500 active companies and 37,500 securities by sector, industry group, industry and sub-industry, enabling users to conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses…