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Ness Technologies Promotes FDE Platform At New York’s FIMA Data Management Event
Ness Technologies took the opportunity of this month’s Financial Information Management (FIMA) conference to promote its Financial Data Enterprise (FDE) reference data management platform. The platform was developed by Ness Innovative Business Services (Ness IBS), previously known as Innova Solutions, a provider of integration services for investment managers, broker/dealers and third-party administrators. FDE provides a…
GoldenSource Scores Another Client Win With Securities, Positions Deal at OpHedge
Reference data platform provider GoldenSource Corp. has picked up another client, following a string of implementations and new contracts over the past several months. The new addition is fund operations and administration service provider OpHedge Investment Services, which has licensed the GoldenSource Securities & Products and GoldenSource Positions modules. OpHedge hopes the GoldenSource platform will…
Richards Steps Down as Enterprise Data Leader at SunGard
Dale Richards, former president of Fame Information Services and leader of the global enterprise data initiative at SunGard, is to leave the company, following the integration of Fame and the launch of the enterprise initiative. He describes his departure as amicable and planned.
Mellon Names Eagle’s Feibel to Lead MAS Business; Kikta Takes On Client Service
Two Mellon veterans have been appointed to manage the Mellon Analytical Solutions (MAS) performance measurement business. Bruce Feibel, previously head of the Eagle Pace and Eagle Performance businesses of Mellon unit Eagle Investment Systems, has been named global director of MAS and Eagle Performance products, and will be responsible for MAS product management and software…
A-Team Group Adds Key Team Member
Andrew and Angela are delighted to announce the arrival of Nathan, 6lb 6oz, on March 11. Mum and baby are doing fine. After missing his first deadline by almost two weeks, Nate should be ready for active reporting duty in about 20 years. As Reference Data Review went to press, Nate was making great use…
Temenos Appoints Popple, Christodoulou for European Operations
Steve Popple, previously sales director at reference data management platform supplier GoldenSource (formerly Financial Technologies International), has joined Swiss core banking systems vendor Temenos as director of business development, Central and Eastern Europe. Popple, an industry veteran of 23 years, will report to Noah Krahenmann, and will be based in the U.K. Another new arrival…
Capco Expands its Managed Services Capability in Europe
Capco, has announced two senior appointments in its managed services business. Neil Innes, who most recently spent seven years at Deutsche Bank, joins as a product manager within Capco Reference Data Services, based in London. Eric Bohner, meanwhile, a founding partner of Capco, has been named head of managed services sales for Europe.
CSFB’s Bottega Jumps Ship to Assume Mantle of Chief Data Officer at Citigroup’s CIB Unit
CSFB’s John Bottega has left the firm for pastures new. Bottega has jumped ship and landed at Citigroup’s Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) unit, as chief data officer, the first time we’ve encountered this title in our industry. In this role, he’ll be responsible for planning and managing CIB’s data strategies, policies and line functions,…
CIBC to Implement GoldenSource as Third Leg Of Counterparty Data Management Facility
CIBC World Markets has secured the final leg of its data management platform for handling entity data. The firm – the capital markets arm of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce – is implementing GoldenSource’s Customers and Counterparties solution at its New York offices as the central data maintenance and storage application in support of the…
DTCC ‘Golden Copy’ Repository is Good News for Credit Markets
News that the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. plans to build a central repository for holding so-called golden copies of trade details for the OTC derivatives marketplace – and in particular for credit derivatives – will be welcomed by industry participants. Certainly, the credit derivatives marketplace has been crying out for help in getting its…