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Markit Signs Up Spanish Grupo BBVA
Markit has secured Spanish Grupo BBVA as a client for its Markit Red database of reference entity names and codes for credit default swaps. Juan Fernandez Blasco, head of trading at Grupo BBVA, says, “The need for precise reference entity data in the CDS market led us to sign a contract with Red… It will…
IDS Uses Evare for Custodian Links, Cleaner Data
To provide higher quality and cleaner data within its hosted portfolio management solution, Integrated Decision Systems (IDS) has chosen Evare to provide custodian interfaces, allowing it to “eliminate the paper and manual data entry,” says Lisa Williams, director of product management, Global Investment Manager at IDS. Evare provides links with global financial institutions for acquiring,…
Mark Your Calendars: CityCompass, RDUG Corporate Actions Briefing
CityCompass is hosting a briefing on March 3rd, supported by Reference Data Review, to debate the issues raised in RDUG’s Interim White Paper from its Corporate Actions Working Group. The white paper summarises the work carried out to date within the practitioner and vendor/supplier communities and the event aims to discuss the issues and the…
Counterparty Link Raises the Bar For Counterparty, Entity Data
The launch a few weeks ago of a new company and eponymous data product, CounterpartyLink, signifies the growing demand for counterparty and legal entity data, fuelled by increasingly stringent regulatory requirements. To date, the main source of legal entity data has been Dun & Bradstreet’s Duns numbers, and more recently the joint Crosswalk initiative it…
Volante White Paper Promotes Federated Approach to Data
Volante Technologies chief technology officer Krishna Sudarshan espouses a federated approach to reference data in a recently issued what paper, Reference Data – an Insight into This Thorny Problem. Sudarshan promotes the idea of using Volante’s Message Metadata Repository and other technologies to build and maintain central metadata rules without the need for a single…
The Need for Governance in Data Centralization Projects Selected extracts of a white paper by Steve French, Azimuth Financial
Many organizations have attempted to create centralized data groups (CDGs) responsible for sourcing, maintaining and distributing core data to all departments. There are clear reasons for doing this: efficiency, consistency, data quality, risk and regulatory compliance. However, despite all of these drivers, very few organizations have created CDGs. Of the top 20 investment banks (as…
Kirby Moves On to Growing Accenture Data Management Business
Reference data advocate Anthony Kirby has started work for Accenture, based in London. At the expanding data management services group within Accenture, Kirby has been named U.K. regional sales director and associate partner within its capital markets practice. He will report to U.K. partner Chris Broyden, and to lead partner for data management services Patricia…
Lammersdorf Joins Cicada’s CounterpartyLink
Former Deutsche Borse executive Christoph Lammersdorf has joined CounterpartyLink as managing director.
Kennedy, Leichsenring, Join GoldenSource in Newly Created Roles
Paul Kennedy, formerly head of content and news at Reuters, and Peter Leichsenring, previously director alliances and channels financial services at Tibco Software, have both joined the recently renamed GoldenSource (known before as Financial Technologies Inc. FTI). Both join in newly created roles. Kennedy has been named vice president of product management based in London….
XcitekSolutionsPlus Hires CA Specialist Thoma for Client Services
XcitekSolutionsPlus last month hired Steve Thoma as senior client administrator within the client services team in Birmingham, AL., to provide production support and implementation of XSP within North America. Thoma was previously corporate action reorganization manager at Fifth Third Bank, and corporate action specialist at Bank One Trust. Further expansion in Birmingham, New York and…