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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…
Checkfree Appoints Hoffman, Thomas, Belluche to Senior Roles
Checkfree has appointed three new senior-level executives. Preston Hoffman, a long-time employee, heads up the global team as senior vice president and managing director for the securities channel, reporting to Checkfree software executive vice president and general manager Randy McCoy. Paul Thomas, from Surecomp and previously ADP Wilco, joins Checkfree as vice president and sales…
The Impact of MiFID
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) has been described as pure cost pain for little liquidity gain by some. What might the impacts be for the financial services firms in terms of conduct of business, data management and best execution and order-handling processes? asks Dr Anthony W Kirby, Fellow of European Think Tank Promethee and…
Baumann Parts Company with Telekurs Financial; Busk Returns, Sandher Joins
Reto Baumann, long standing sales manager at Telekurs Financial is leaving the company to “explore new opportunities abroad”. Meanwhile, Edward Busk has returned to Telekurs Financial as part of the London sales team focused primarily on third-party relationships. He previously worked with Telekurs in sales between 1993 and 1999, before leaving to join Reuters as…
Arney Joins Xcitek in Recruitment
Joseph Arney has joined Xcitek as vice president responsible for supporting sales efforts in the recruitment of securities professionals within financial institutions on a consulting basis. He previously spent 14 years with the DTCC.
Raeves Surfaces at Goldensource
Goldensource has hired Gert Raeves as vice president of business solutions, based in London. Raeves was previously with CheckFree Heliograph in a product marketing role, as well as with Swift and JP Morgan in various roles. At GoldenSource, Raeves will report to Mark Zill, executive vice president of global software operations.