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Counterparty Link Installs Cole to Head Product Management
Martin Cole has joined Counterparty Link as head of the product management team. He was previously managing director of Dun & Bradstreet, U.K. and Ireland, a role he took on in July 2003. Prior to that, he spent 16 years with Reuters, holding a variety of sales and marketing positions, including marketing director for U.K….
Xcitek Expands European Team with Digby, Fullam
Xcitek has expanded its London-based team with the addition of Paul Fullam, vice president and manager of global services, to support implementations for new European clients of its flagship XSP software solution. The corporate actions software vendor has also appointed Matt Digby as senior business analyst for XSP in Europe. His responsibilities will include business…
Atkin Quits Outsell for Staff Director Role at Enterprise Data Management Council
Well, we called it (Reference Data Review, June 2005). After just a few months with legal, scientific and B2B market research firm Outsell, Mike Atkin has moved on to become the staff director of the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council The move was hardly unexpected; Atkin’s long experience with Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of…
Reuters Sets DataScope Select as Cornerstone Of Strategy for Reference Data Delivery
The launch on January 18 of Reuters’ DataScope Select platform is the culmination of three years of planning and development, and sets in place Reuters’ strategic delivery vehicle for reference data services through 2010. The release of the new service – effectively creating a portal-based ‘shopping mall’ that clients can browse for the reference data…
CIBC Taps Cicada, CPL for Legal Entity Platform, Data
CIBC World Markets’ selection of Cicada and its CounterpartyLink (CPL) sister company to provide a comprehensive legal entity data sourcing and management platform marks the first public client win for the two Cicada Cos. siblings. The implementation is aimed at helping the Canadian bank support Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and meet other regulatory requirements. The initial…
JWG Takes MiFID Impact on Reference Data to High Granularity
The MiFID Joint Working Group has taken the bull by the horns with respect to entity identifiers and their role in the forthcoming EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, much hullabaloo about which continues to bubble in the London marketplace if nowhere else. The latest JWG white paper – described on Page 4 and available…
MiFID JWG Releases White Paper to Encourage Discussion of Reference Data
The MiFID Joint Working Group last month issued a discussion paper to look at the impact of the EU’s upcoming Markets in Financial Instruments Directive on reference data. The paper – The Implications for Reference Data under the Markets in Financial Instrument Directive – suggests that MiFID may have significant impact on several areas of…
Standard & Poor’s Unveils Compustat Xpressfeed Loader Library
Standard & Poor’s has introduced Compustat Xpressfeed Loader Library, which enhances users’ ability to query, view and manipulate Compustat’s fundamental data within the basic Xpressfeed feed. The Library is available when using the Compustat Xpressfeed Loader platform and is delivered as a set of 35 database-stored procedures, functions and views. The resources in the Library…
Standard & Poor’s Introduces Enhanced Version of RatingsDirect
Standard & Poor’s has introduced an enhanced version of RatingsDirect, its real-time online credit ratings and research solution aimed at credit/research analysts, credit risk managers and portfolio managers. Highlights include expanded credit research and ratings coverage, redesigned ratings pages, a new Quick view menu, and enhancements to the e-mail alert system. RatingsDirect enables investment professionals…
Citadel Adds EDI’s Corporate Actions Feed to Cadis Platform …
Citadel Associates has developed an interface to Exchange Data International’s Worldwide Corporate Actions (WCA) data feed that will allow its Cadis Data Management Platform to access corporate actions announce-ments from the London-based supplier.