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Reuters Taps Nelson for DataScope Select in Asia
Reuters has relocated Barnaby Nelson to Hong Kong, from London, to head up its DataSelect initiative in Asia. Nelson, previously part of the DataScope team in London, will lead a team of five salespeople and one product specialist. His former role in Europe is being covered by Oliver Smith, who recently joined Reuters from Bloomberg,…
Harcourt Joins Standard & Poor’s from FT Interactive Data
Steven Harcourt has joined Standard & Poor’s European Structured Finance team, as senior structured finance evaluator, after spending seven years at FT Interactive Data and four years at Merrill Lynch. Harcourt will continue to develop the team’s new European ABS/MBS Evaluation model, reporting to Peter Jones, director of securities evaluations at Standard & Poor’s in…
Mondas Names King, Ryan to Radica Caps Sales Team
Tim King and Dominic Ryan have joined Mondas as sales manager and sales executive, respectively. “Both Tim and Dominic have extensive experience in sales with organisations including the London Stock Exchange, Dow Jones, Thomson Financial and Phillips Electronics, and the high level of expertise we need for them to play a leading part in our…
Thomson Financial Jumps into Bond Evaluations; Adds Standard & Poor’s Data to Intraday Snapshot
Thomson Financial is set to add Standard & Poor’s European bond valuations data to the intraday pricing feed it launched late last year. The move – which is to be announced as early as the first week in July – adds yet another player to the bond valuations marketplace, currently dominated by Interactive Data Corp.,…
And You Thought Your Structured Data Was in a Mess….
As the world of reference data moves to a phase of relative maturity, the landscape is becoming littered with the usual ‘after-dinner circuit’ of case studies, interviews and Powerpoints gloating about how the data challenge has finally been met. Instead of the chaos we uncovered three years ago – has it been that long? –…
AIM’s Gain to Carry EDI Reference, Pricing Data
Exchange Data International (EDI) has made its reference, pricing and corporate actions data available via Aim Software’s Gain reference data management platform. Gain already integrates data from such sources as Reuters DataScope, Telekurs Valoren Data Feed (VDF) and FT Interactive Data.
Cicada Upgrades Profiler Platform
Cicada has upgraded Cicada Profiler software, adding improved capabilities to meet firms’ anti-money laundering and know your customer compliance needs. Release 1.1 of Cicada Profiler introduces an ownership checklist that can trigger collection of corporate ownership data, for example, based on customer type. The new version supports different types of ownership definitions and supports one-to-many…
CheckFree Sets ISO 15022 Interface to Fidelity ActionsXchange
CheckFree Corp. has introduced an ISO 15022-compliant interface to the Fidelity ActionsXchange corporate actions data feed from its CheckFree eVent corporate actions processing platform. CheckFree eVent allows customers to receive, validate and process corporate actions, from announcement through entitlement calculation to notification and instruction processing. The ActionsXchange ActionService data feed integrates data from multiple commercial…
FT Interactive Data Adds Pricing to Temenos T24
Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data has agreed to make its pricing, evaluations, corporate actions and reference data available via banking systems provider Temenos’s T24 system. As part of the arrangement T24 clients will also be able to access FT Interactive European Union Savings Directive (EUSD) data, which is fully integrated with the Temenos EU…
TAP Launches Publisher Module for Real-Time Reference Data…
TAP Solutions has released TAPMaster Publisher, a new module for its data management platform that provides real-time detection and notification of changes to reference data. The add-on module reads incoming streams of vendor data as it arrives at the client site, detects changes from previous values, and publishes those changes to the applications and users…