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Cadis Nabs Collier to Support Sell-Side Growth
Cadis, the global EDM specialist has appointed George Collier as Director of Sales, Investment Banking and Capital Markets. Collier joins from Asset Control where he served as New Business Sales Executive for EMEA, focusing on large tier-one financial institutions. He previously held positions as VP of Sales for Siperian EMEA, now part of Informatica. He…
Asset Owners Change Approach to Risk Management
MSCI, a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, published today the results of its 2011 Global Asset Owners Survey: Back to the Future of Risk Management. With 85 participants from 26 countries, representing roughly USD 5.5 trillion in assets under management, this is one of the most in-depth surveys to look at risk…
SIX Telekurs Launches New On-Demand Services for the Rapid Delivery of High Quality Data
SIX Telekurs has released new delivery services for the most up-to-date financial information from its comprehensive securities database, Valordata Feed. These innovations meet growing market needs for on-demand prices, reference data and corporate actions. VDF Pulse delivers push-delta updates of reference data and time-critical corporate actions every 15 minutes. These intervals reduce manual entry work…
Bloomberg Tradebook Boosts Independent Research Offering
Bloomberg Tradebook, a leading global agency broker, announced today that six new independent research providers have been selected to join its research services offering. Bloomberg Tradebook clients now have access to premium market research from 15 independent research firms that provide an informed perspective on the markets they cover. The Analyst, H&M Consulting Group (HMCG),…
The Investment Fund Industry Should be Preparing for FATCA Already
Multifonds, a leader in flexible, multi-jurisdictional, single-platform fund administration software, says that while in some cases FATCA’s implications remain unclear, on other points asset managers, administrators and vendors can make progress now. The US’s Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), which will come into effect on January 1 2013, has far-reaching implications for the investment…
Oracle’s Kumar Talks up a Consolidated Approach to Finance and Risk Data, Exadata’s Capabilities
Oracle has long been championing the capabilities of its Exadata Database Machine, which forms the foundation of a number of its other offerings such as the Financial Services Data Warehouse that was launched in January this year. Senthil Kumar, group vice president and head of global business development for financial services at Oracle, speaks to Reference…
Asset Control’s New AC Plus Module is Aimed at Efficiency Gains and Increased Interactivity, Says Lynch
Last week EDM solution vendor Asset Control launched a new module for its AC Plus data management platform that is aimed at automating the securities set up process). Phil Lynch, president and CEO of the vendor, explains that by providing an automated process right from the outset to collect the required instrument data, firms can…
Financial Institutions Should Focus on Unstructured Financial Data in the Rush for Effective Risk Management, Warns ClusterSeven
Financial institutions will continue to report high profile instances of data mismanagement and fraud unless they take 100% control of the vulnerable financial data files that move and manipulate information between their business systems. These include files known as CSVs* (comma separated variable), plus spreadsheets and Microsoft Access Databases. Systemic failings in the way these…
EDI and SFB Release a New Options Data Service for North America
Exchange Data International (EDI), a well established provider of Securities Corporate Actions and Reference Data, today announced the launch of its option series data service in partnership with SFB Market Systems, Inc. (SFB) a trusted leader in securities reference data, analytics and related solutions. EDI and SFB combine their expertise to provide the derivative industry…
SuperDerivatives Appoints Head of Corporate Solutions
SuperDerivatives (SD), the benchmark for derivatives and leader in multi asset front office technology and valuation, has appointed Oren Cohanoff as Product Manager to lead the growth of the company’s corporate treasury system, CorporeX. Cohanoff joins SD from Teva, the world’s largest generic pharmaceutical corporation, where he was Deputy Treasurer and Global Head of Financial…