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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…
Growth Spurs Senior Management Shuffle at Xenomorph
Xenomorph, a provider of enterprise-wide data management platforms, has reorganized senior management. The company cites strong growth in credit data analytics, tick data storage and derivatives data management. Under the reshuffle, Brian Sentance becomes CEO and Greg Johnson becomes COO. Chris Budgen, Matthew Skinner and Mark Woodgate, all founder directors, are now chief technical architect,…
Trust Company of Illinois To Track Class Actions
Trust Company of Illinois has selected Xcitek’s Class Actions (XCA) service to address the growing burden of tracking and potentially collecting from securities class actions. Doug Eyles, head of investments at Trust Company of Illinois, said, “After a brief trial period, we decided that XCA could help us to better track developments that might impact…
Reuters Datascope Deal with Odyssey
Reuters has secured another partner software provider in Odyssey Asset Management Systems for its Datascope reference data service. The data will be made available as an optional packaged adaptor via Odyssey’s Triple’A portfolio management system, its Advisor relationship management system and Nexus, its centralised repository for financial data.
AIM Gets Into Corporate Actions
AIM Software has introduced a new module to manage corporate actions data within its GAIN data management platform. The Gain Corporate Actions Dairy System (CADS) will manage corporate actions data delivered in ISO 15022 or other formats. The data will be sourced from a variety of providers including Swift, Telekurs Financial, Reuters, FT Interactive Data,…
Citadel Becomes Charter Client For Accenture Outsourced MRDS
After much speculation, Accenture has revealed its first client for its Managed Reference Data Service (MRDS) outsourcing solution in hedge fund Citadel Investment Group. Additional clients are expected to follow in the coming months. Citadel, with $12 billion under management, has signed a 10-year agreement to outsource “key aspects” of its data management processes. This…
Reuters Targets Bond Evaluations, Enhancing Frequency, Coverage
Although long trailing its rival Bloomberg in the fixed income arena, Reuters is aiming to utilise its acquisitions – namely EJV and Telerate – to bolster its content offerings. Backed by significant investment, Reuters has been developing enhancements to its fixed income evaluations service resulting in the introduction of higher frequency in evaluated pricing updates,…
Reference Data Review in Action At WFIC Conference Sessions
See Reference Data Review and the editors at this year’s World Financial Information Conference (WFIC) organized by the FISD in Rome. A-Team’s very own editor Angela Wilbraham will be moderating two panels on Wednesday 12 October, so mark your calendars. The first – The EDM Council: Senior level executives join the reference data fray, at…
Mahoney Changes to Consulting Role for Cicada; Tse, Trostinsky Join
More changes at Cicada. Carole Mahoney, former vice president of European sales at Cicada, has left and taken on an external sales consulting role, working with both Cicada and CounterpartyLink. In this new position, Carole will focus on market intelligence and lead generation activities. Michael Tse has joined Cicada as sales liaison executive, providing pre-sales…
IDC Shuffles Senior Management
Interactive Data Corp., parent company of FT Interactive Data, has implemented a new corporate structure. John L. King has been elevated from chief operating officer of FT Interactive to occupy the same role across all IDC’s businesses, reporting to Stuart Clark, IDC’s president and chief executive officer. FT Interactive Data’s data delivery products president Raymond…