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Asset Control Enlarges On Standard Chartered Project
Asset Control has released details of its implementation of the AC PriceMaster platform at Standard Bank last year. The Hong Kong- and London-based bank announced last spring that it was live at four main offices with AC PriceMaster for management of market rates in support of its risk analysis activities (Reference Data Review, May 2005)….
ValueLink and Reuters Extend Relationship
ValueLink Information Services and Reuters have extended their relationship by increasing the amount of Reuters data carried by ValueLink as well as increasing Reuters’ status to a key provider. ValueLink provides financial data collection, consolidation and cleansing, and offers tailored solutions, which can be delivered in the format the customer desires. Reuters first forged its…
Interactive Data Picks Ivaliotis to Lead Marketing Strategy
Interactive Data Corp. has named Mary Ivaliotis vice president and chief marketing officer, with responsibility for developing the overall brand and marketing strategy for Interactive Data, and its FT Interactive Data, Comstock, CMS BondEdge and eSignal businesses. Ivaliotis was most recently executive vice president of global markets at Telerate, and previously held positions at prior…
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…