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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…

Dolan Joins GoldenSource Team in Sales & Marketing

Pat Dolan has joined GoldenSource as vice president EMEA sales and marketing. Here he will report directly to chief executive officer Mike Meriton. Dolan was previously global head of sales at Strategic Communications Software, and has previously worked at Cognotec, Dow Jones and Standard & Poor’s.

Yaron Takes Over from Esler at Bear Stearns

Bear Stearns’ managing director and principle Paul Yaron has become the new head of reference data services following the departure of Peter Esler earlier this year (RDR, May 2005).

Crammond to Spearhead Markit’s Asia Pac Development

Markit continues to expand its Asian practice, with a new office opening in Singapore to be run by David Crammond. Crammond joins from ABN Amro, where he was head of structured asset sales for the Asian region. Before then, he was based in ABN’s New York office, running structured credit sales. At Markit, he will…

S&P Further Boosts Securities Evaluations Group with Dooley Hire

Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations group has added Michael Dooley to its Interest Rate Swaps pricing team. Dooley has previously worked at firms including Prudential Securities, Sumitomo Bank Securities, and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. He joins a growing team following more hires last month (RDR, May 2005). Prior to bringing Dooley on board, Standard…

Standard & Poor’s Bolsters European Securities Evaluations Team

Standard & Poor’s has bolstered its European Securities Evaluations group with the addition of two senior managers to the team. Annabel Saunders is named associate director, and Ciro Incarico is named director of fixed income evaluations sales in the group. Saunders has previously worked at Reuters and FT Interactive Data, where she had been responsible…

Capco Names Parthasarathy as Country Manager, India

Capco has named Padma Parthasarathy as country manager in India, based in Bangalore, and reporting to partner and executive vice president, business process outsourcing and sourcing development Gopi Chelliah who joined a few months ago (Reference Data Review, March 2005). Parthasarathy will be responsible for developing Capco’s relationships with India’s banking sector as well as…

Xcitek Hires Jones for Product Management Group; Gyngell in Europe

Larry W. Jones has joined corporate actions firm Xcitek as senior vice president of its product management group, responsible for managing the product roadmap. Although not from a corporate actions background, Jones spent 18 years at HP/Compaq Computer Corp. within its global services division, as well as Integrated Medical Systems International and Adea Solutions. He…

Should the Registrars Become a Data Vendor? By Gary Wright MSI, CityCompass Research

The problem with data in the securities industry today is there is too much of it coming from too many different sources and in too many different forms. The cost therefore of gaining the data you want and need, has never been greater and this is in the 21st Century with the world of the…