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Reuters Datascope’s Ken Barnes Appointed VP, Business and Planning, at Wombat
Ken Barnes, formerly of Reuters’ DataScope reference data product group, has joined Wombat Financial Software, a low-latency data delivery provider. Reporting to Danny Moore, COO, he assumes responsibility for global marketing and communications, competitor and market analysis, sales process management and channel development and management. He will also manage several Tier 1 accounts in the…
Wang Departs Capco for Citigroup
Samuel Wang, managing principal and head of global marketing at Capco, has left the company to join Citigroup in an undisclosed role.
Northern Trust Names Krishnamurthy CTO
Northern Trust has named Nirup Krishnamurthy executive vice president and chief technology officer. Krishnamurthy was previously vice president and chief information officer of UAL Corp. Based in Chicago, he will report to Timothy Theriault, president, worldwide operations and technology, at Northern Trust.
Custodian Mellon Dives Into Outsourcing Of Reference Data Management Services
Large custodian Mellon Financial Corp. has previously dipped its toe in the water of reference data manage-ment through its acquisition of Eagle Investment Systems in 2001. Now it is getting ready to dive in with a packaged reference data management outsourcing solution targeted at investment management firms. Brian Buzzelli, IMS product management, reference data, says,…
A-Team Group/Reuters Survey: Bond Evaluations Gaining Value?
Placing a value on portfolios of fixed-income securities has always been a tricky business. Because of the securities’ complexity and, often, illiquidity, managers have a hard time sourcing reliable pricing. The U.S. has relied on evaluated pricing services for the past 20 years or so. Finally, it seems, Europe is beginning to follow suit. A-Team…
Latest MiFID Postponement Merely Delays the Inevitable
‘News’ that the widely feared, little-understood EU Directive on Markets in Financial Instruments – affectionately known as MiFID – may be delayed again to November 2007, hasn’t been greeted with too much in the way of protest. The original delay pushed implementation of the directive back to April 2007 from a year earlier. The latest…
SunGard AddVantage Adds Interface to FTID Security Master
SunGard’s AddVantage, an asset management, trust and accounting and securities processing solution, has added an interface to XML Market Information Query Response System from FT Interactive Data (FTID). The interface is designed to help mutual customers facilitate the set up of equity and fixed income security master information provided by FTID from within the AddVantage…
Bank of America to Expand Use Of Teradata Data Warehouse
Bank of America is expanding its use of Teradata data warehouse in order to address new business initiatives requiring analysis of enterprise information. Teradata, a division of NCR Corp., provides enterprise data warehousing, analytic applications and data warehousing services.
Capco Launches Global Equities Dividend Forecasting Service
Capco Reference Data Services has launched Global Dividend Forecasting (Global DivCast), a managed data solution that provides a consolidated source of dividend projection data for equities. Features include a forecast of cash flows for a specific security, cash flows calculated using historical and current dividends over a period of two to four years, up to…
StatPro to Resell Capco Reference Data Service’s Global Index Monitor
StatPro, a portfolio analystics solutions provider, is now a reseller of Capco Reference Data Service’s Global Index Monitor (GIM), a source of cleansed global index composition data provided in a single standardized file. GIM, acquired by Capco through its purchase of Iverson Financial, will be provided as part of StatPro’s Performance & Attribution (SPA) product,…