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London Exchange Delays Sedol Upgrade, Citing High Demand
The London Stock Exchange has delayed the launch of its upgraded Sedol Masterfile Service, citing additional testing precautions in the face of apparently greater-than-expected demand. The delay, however, is not expected to be significant, with a new launch date scheduled for announcement on January 23. The new version of the SMF Service will change the…
UII Protagonists Heed Dessug’s Concerns About Standard
Industry groups seeking to establish a unique industry identifier (UII) for multi-listed securities that are traded cross-border have agreed to addresss calls for clarification from a German user group. The move appears to answer concerns raised by Dessug, the German Swift Securities User Group, which requested that a simpler vocabulary and an updated glossary of…
Telekurs Financial Expands Management Team in the U.K.
Swiss data vendor Telekurs Financial has added executives to its U.K. management team. Dominique Tanner, head of business development, becomes deputy to Telekurs (U.K.) CEO Beat Koch. Olga Bobrova, previously with Telekurs Financial Japan, becomes head of strategic marketing. Elizabeth Coleman, previously with Telekurs Financial France, becomes head of management services, with responsibility for finance…
Kirby Quits Deutsche Borse for Smartstream
Tony Kirby, the Reference Data Coalition (Redac) secretary and former leader of Reuters’ reference data strategy, has resigned from latest employers Deutsche Borse to take a job at Smartstream Technologies. Smartstream, a provider of transaction lifecycle management and corporate actions processing systems, last week announced that Kirby will join February 2 as director of market…
FTI’s Popple Departs to Start New Venture
Financial Technologies International U.K. sales executive Steve Popple has left the company. Popple plans to embark on a new venture; details weren’t available at press time.
Xenomorph Names Johnson to Lead Sales & Marketing
London-based financial data management and analytics supplier Xenomorph has named Greg Johnson director of sales and marketing. Most recently, Johnson was sales and marketing director for GL Trade in London. Before that, he helped found Netik, a provider of STP solutions.
Bank Austria Creditanstalt Licenses Fitch Risk’s OpVantage First Database for Operational Risk
Bank Austria Creditanstalt has subscribed to Fitch Risk’s OpVantage financial institutions risk scenario (First) trend database. First contains 4,500 case studies of operational risk loss events. It is aimed to helping financial services firms to determine and manage their exposures. BCCA plans to use First in its self-assessment process for operational risk. Fitch Risk is…
Mark-It Partners Secures Nine More Partner Investors
Mark-It Partners, the cleverly named credit data supplier, has received equity commitments from nine more of its data contributors, bringing to 13 the total number of institutions contributing both data and cash to the business. The latest commitment means that all founding contributors have now exercised options to invest in the company. Mark-It intends to…
Checkfree Names Three to Sell Heliograph Product Set
Following its recent acquisition of Heliograph, Checkfree has named three new sales executives charged with expanding the new unit’s suite of financial messaging products. Aaron Overy joins as sales associate with responsibility for the TradeFlow TPM system. His background includes stints at ABN Amro, Thomson Financial, Primark and BITA Plus, now Cor Risk Solutions, part…
Iris Financial Engineering Hires Strategy, BizDev Execs Following $11 Million Infusion from Apax Partners
Fresh from last quarter’s completion of an $11 million investment from Apax Partners, Iris Financial Engineering has named three senior executives in strategy and business development. Aviv Handler joins as vice president of product strategy from KW International, where he was involved in product strategy and business analysis. Prior to KW, Handler was product manager…