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Soliton Provides 24/7 Support In Outsourced Master File Deal
Soliton Inc. has signed the first round-the-clock client for its managed reference data services offering. The implementation, now live after a three-month evaluation period and three months of training, involves a dedicated Soliton staff handling data cleansing and normalization processes for the investment management division of an as-yet unidentified fund manager in the U.S. According…
Reuters Datascope’s Ken Barnes Appointed VP, Business and Planning, at Wombat
Ken Barnes, formerly of Reuters’ DataScope reference data product group, has joined Wombat Financial Software, a low-latency data delivery provider. Reporting to Danny Moore, COO, he assumes responsibility for global marketing and communications, competitor and market analysis, sales process management and channel development and management. He will also manage several Tier 1 accounts in the…
Wang Departs Capco for Citigroup
Samuel Wang, managing principal and head of global marketing at Capco, has left the company to join Citigroup in an undisclosed role.
Northern Trust Names Krishnamurthy CTO
Northern Trust has named Nirup Krishnamurthy executive vice president and chief technology officer. Krishnamurthy was previously vice president and chief information officer of UAL Corp. Based in Chicago, he will report to Timothy Theriault, president, worldwide operations and technology, at Northern Trust.
Markit RED Reaches 100 Customers Amid Flurry of Activity
Markit, a provider of pricing and valuations, has signed the 100th customer to its Reference Entity Database (RED), which provides reference entity and reference obligation identifiers for the credit default swaps market. The service, launched two years ago, has been actively adding clients and forming alliances with others vendors. Most recently Xenomorph (Reference Data Review,…
Transformer 2.3 Adds Support for FpML and ICMA TRAX 2005 Libraries
Trace Financial Ltd. has released version 2.3 of its Transformer data integration and message mediation platform. New to this version is support for FpML and ICMA TRAX 2005 message libraries. The new release also offers automatic web service deployment from within the Transformer development environment and a dynamic testing facility, either from files or databases,…
Xcitek Goes Live with First Cost Basis Client
Xcitek’s Cost Basis is now live at its first client site, an undisclosed online brokerage headquartered in San Francisco (erm, Charles Schwab, maybe?). The service, accessed through a secured session on the broker’s website, allows clients to calculate the cost basis of equity positions back to the original trade date. First introduced in 2004, Cost…
Algorithmics Partners with Banks For Credit Risk Data Initiative
Algorithmics has entered an agreement with the Pan-European Credit Data Consortium (PECDC), a credit risk data pooling initiative by European banks, to provide products and services to help satisfy pending Basel II IRB requirements for the staging, structuring and validation of historical default, loss and recovery data. Under the agreement, each PECDC member bank will…
Progress Real Time’s DataXtend Provides Data Integrity Capability
Progress Real Time, best known for its software for handling real-time complex event processing particularly in the electronic trading environment, has positioned a new product offering to exploit opportunities in the reference data environment. Progress Real Time this month launched its DataXtend line of infrastructure technologies, comprising a Replication Engine (RE) module and a Caching…
Standard & Poor’s Appoints James Price to Senior European Role
James Price has been appointed director of business development and marketing for Standard & Poor’s European Securities Services. Based in London, he reports to Krishna Biltoo, managing director of European data and information and oversees a team of five. Price’s main focus will be to raise Standard & Poor’s profile in the credit markets. He…