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FactSet Opts for Telekurs VDF To Support Securities Master File
As it continues to expand its own information services offerings, Norwalk, Conn.-based FactSet Research Systems Inc. has opted to use Telekurs Financial’s Valordata Feed to augment the securities master file it uses to underpin management of the numerous internal and external data sources it uses. As well as augmenting its security master file, FactSet will…
DSTi Adds to U.K., French teams
Buy side solutions firm DST International (DSTi) has added two people to its sales teams. Vincent Stefanovic joins DSTi in Paris as business development manager for France, focusing on expanding DSTi’s presence in France and French-speaking markets. Alan Williamson, meanwhile, joins as sales executive, where he will focus on DSTi’s risk performance solutions in the…
Ex-Reuters Senior Exec Ken Byrne Joins Calypso
Ken Byrne has been appointed executive vice president of worldwide field operations for Calypso Technology, a provider of front-to-back-office trading solutions. Based in New York, Byrne will be responsible for global sales and professional services worldwide. His experience includes running his own consulting practice in addition to holding senior roles at Reuters during 13 years…
iSpheres Hires Burgos from SunGard STP Area
Tick data management provider iSpheres has hired John Burgos as senior sales engineer. Burgos, with experience in networks, STP and payments systems, was previously with SunGard. He will support New York area clients.
S&P Teams with Markit to Offer Entity-Issue Link for Credit Swaps
Following a custom implementation at Rabobank International, Standard & Poor’s has launched Reference Entity Link, aimed at the credit default swaps marketplace. The service, which draws upon Markit’s Reference Entity Database (RED) provides full issuer and issue coverage behind each CLIP code. CLIP codes – named for Cusip-Linked Entity Markit Code (Reference Data Review, March…
J.P. Morgan Adopts Central Reference Data Hub To Support Global Credit Trading Operation
J.P. Morgan Chase is building a business-aligned reference data hub in support of the major reengineering of its credit trading operation onto a single platform. The hub – essentially a central global hub for credit reference data – will commingle corporate data, vendor data and business-specific data into a single, unified service available to all…
Azdex Offers Not-for-Profit Access To Utility for Entity Identification
Counterparty data utility Azdex, backed by its 51% owner Deutsche Boerse, has put itself forward as a potential not-for-profit facilitator to help financial institutions meet the requirements for handling entity identifiers ahead of the deadline for MiFID, the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. According to Azdex CEO Ken Price, the company is not seeking…
FIMA Delivers Reference Data Messages
As promised, the Financial Information Management (FIMA) conference in London earlier this month offered a very useful forum for the reference data community to trade ideas and network. We spent both days there and found catching up with old friends, making new ones, and listening and learning about real-life implementa-tions a valuable use of our…
DSTi to Embed Xenomorph’s Time-Series Data Management Platform
DST International has signed an exclusive global agreement with Xenomorph to embed Xenomorph’s time-series data management functionality into its Investment Data Solutions platform, aimed at buy-side users. By offering this support for storage, manipulation and retrieval of largescale time-series data and providing analytic applications and plug-ins to make analytics available in other applications such as…
Wachovia Taps Teradata For Basel II Preparation
As part of a new risk management programme, U.S. bank Wachovia is implementing data warehousing technology from NCR subsidiary Teradata. It will use the technology to consolidate its existing disparate risk databases into a centralized warehousing environment. The vendor says the new risk data platform will also enable the bank to meet the data management…