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Xcitek Hires Sheppard as COO
Xcitek has appointed Neil Sheppard as chief operating officer with responsibility for managing the company’s corporate actions software XSP in Europe, in support of the European growth strategy. Prior to joining Xcitek, Sheppard has held a variety of project management, product and business development roles in corporate actions at Magenta One, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Dresdner…
Markit Hires Meldrum for Acquisitions & Strategic Direction
Markit Group has hired Will Meldrum as director of acquisitions and strategic development, pointing to further acquisitive activity by the credit markets pricing vendor. Meldrum previously worked at Deutsche Bank for four years as director and head of global markets strategic investments. In this role, he was involved in the original sale of the collaborating…
Standard & Poor’s Releases Crosswalk Web; Ratings IQuery
Standard & Poor’s is making its Crosswalk product – a joint venture with Dun & Bradstreet and Telekurs Financial – available via the web. Crosswalk, backed by sizeable players in the business entity identifier space, identifies the link between securities, issuers and their corporate entity hierarchy. Meanwhile, the company has also launched Ratings IQuery for…
JPMorgan Automates CAs for Clients to Access Via the Web
In order to better meet regulatory requirements, JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services is automating its corporate actions information for its institutional investor clients by offering web-based access to the data and eliminating the distribution of thousands of paper documents annually. It will provide web access to shareholder communications related to corporate events for U.S. and Canadian…
Hansard Signs Up for ValueLink
Hansard Administrative Services has signed up for ValueLink’s Pricing, Corporate Action, and Dividend services. Hansard will be leveraging ValueLink’s collection of 1,300 daily closing prices from hedge funds manually collected from websites and calls to fund managers.
Reuters Grows Third-Party Alliance Program with New Deals
Reuters has secured another four partnerships with software providers in its drive to “set up as many strategic alliances as possible”. And with 25% of their revenues – and growing – for the DataScope reference data service coming from the program, it’s little wonder that it is becoming an increasingly important strategy for the company….
Osney Event: Buy-Side Discuss Reference Data Resource, ROI
The resources of the buy-side often can’t compare with those of the sell-side when it comes to reference data management and measuring the cost impact of bad data in order to justify data management projects. This was one of the messages from a recent Technology Solutions for Asset Management (TSAM) conference organized by Osney Media….
IBEI and the Ten-Year Rush Towards Implementation By Gary Wright MSI, CityCompass Research
The planned International Business Entity Identifier (IBEI) – a unique identification system for investing and trading parties in the securities market – has been a long-standing objective since Swift allowed non-banking entities onto their network and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) lost control of central market trading. It’s not that long ago that to execute…
McLean Joins Reuters Enterprise Information from S&P
Miranda McLean has joined Reuters Enterprise Information division to head marketing efforts within Europe. McLean will continue to be based in London and will report to Kelly Lavelle, global head of marketing for division. She joins from Standard & Poor’s where she spent two years as director of business development and marketing. Prior to that,…
FISD Taps Alvarez for Securities Model Chairman Role
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) has appointed Marc Alvarez as chairman of the Securities Model Working Group. Alvarez is executive vice president of products and marketing at data management firm Tap Solutions. As chairman, he will provide strategic direction for the group as it evaluates the administrative, technological, and taxonomy issues relating to market…