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Telekurs Financial Appoints New Ireland Sales Manager McManus
Meanwhile, Telekurs Financial has appointed a new sales manager for its Ireland branch. John McManus will be responsible for all new and existing clients in the Irish marketplace. He joins from Dublin-based Zarion where he was a business consultant focused on compliance and anti-money laundering solutions within the financial sector.
Butler Leaving Telekurs to Join Fox at FT Interactive Data
Louise Butler is leaving Telekurs Financial to join FT Interactive Data in October. In her new job, based in London, she will be senior marketing executive reporting to Anneliese Garvey.
Hodgson to Leave London Stock Exchange After 14 Years
After 14 years, Mike Hodgson will be leaving the London Stock Exchange in November. Hodgson has been involved in the Exchange’s market data and reference data product initiatives, most recently in product development for the Sedol project.
Focus on: Basel II and Data Management
Basel II and its requirements for measuring operational and credit risk is one of the key drivers behind the need to accurate and timely reference data. The following is an edited extract of an article written by Dr Urs Bischof, head of VDF engineering at Telekurs Financial and featured in Telekurs’ realtime customer magazine The…
SVC Contracts with Telekurs for International Pricing Data
Securities Valuation Corp. (SVC) has gone live with securities pricing information sourced from Telekurs (USA), which it will offer alongside its own pricing data to direct clients and to customers of parent Financial Models Corp. (FMC). The deal is a useful win for Telekurs (USA) and follows recent moves to gain better leverage from the…
Azimuth Financial’s Azdex Offers Counterparty Benchmarking Data
Azimuth Financial has lifted the lid on its Azimuth Data Exchange (Azdex) initiative to offer financial institutions analysis of the quality of their counterparty data, based on comparisons with that of their peers. Azdex recently signed up Dresdner Bank and Standard Bank of South Africa to participate in the benchmarking project. According to Ken Price,…
Corporate Actions Systems Benchmarked by CityCompass
Think your corporate actions service is good enough? Try putting it through the paces of the CityCompass benchmarking process. Those systems and information service providers brave enough to do so and that passed the tough criteria were rewarded for their efforts with the new B.I.S.S. Gold Label accreditation. The benchmarking process, now in its second…
Distribution Spat Between FTSE, Barra Remains Unsolved
While risk data and technology firm Barra has instructed clients that it will discontinue distribution of data from index firm FTSE Group from the end of next month, FTSE says that no such decision had been communicated to them. It appears that discussions have been ongoing between the two parties, but FTSE insists that no…
Vermeg Secures SEI Investments For Corporate Actions System
Corporate actions processing firm Vermeg has secured a new client in the form of wealth services provider SEI Investments. SEI is in the process of implementing Vermeg’s Megacor system to provide the corporate actions module within its own Global Wealth Management Platform aimed at private clients. While being touted as the first U.S. deal for…
Thomson Hints At Reference Data Activities with Portia News
Thomson Financial, while owner of many valuable data properties, has not to date jumped into marketing its services in the reference data space. News from its Portia portfolio management and accounting system’s division, however, made mention of new modules and enhancements in the works that hint at increased activity in this space. Modules being planned…