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Axioma Names Ian Webster Managing Director, Europe
Axioma, a leading provider of decision support, risk analysis and portfolio rebalancing and performance attribution tools, today announced that Ian Webster has been appointed Managing Director, Europe. Webster will lead the company’s efforts to accelerate the pace of Axioma’s market share in Europe and will oversee Axioma’s rapidly growing global indexing initiatives. “Europe is an…
GMI & Si2 Partner, Offering ESG Proxy Research Resource
GMI and Si2 announced today a strategic partnership to provide seamless subscription access, account management and special pricing to the firms’ ESG Board Briefing Research, Shareholder Proposal Analysis, and Executive Pay Scorecards to their institutional and corporate clients. The combination of GMI’s market-leading compensation analysis with Si2’s expert insights into key environmental and social issues…
Omgeo’s Freeman on the Changing Dynamics of the SSI Space
Reference Data Review speaks with Omgeo’s executive director of industry relations Tony Freeman about the vendor’s recent research into the settlement and account instruction (SSI) space, which highlights the high number of trade fails caused by problems with SSI data. Freeman also elaborates on the changing dynamics in the SSI space caused by increased competition…
Netik Recruits Team for Delta One Division to Focus on Delta One Market
Netik, the global leading provider of financial data creation, management and distribution services and solutions today announced a major investment push in the Delta One space with the recruitment of a new team to its Delta One index and ETF data division. The Delta One team spans technology, product management and sales across Netik’s three…
Societe Generale Securities Services Commits to Providing Clients with Proposals for Managing Issue-Linked Events in Just 3 Hours
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has consolidated and developed its System for Management of Issue-Linked Events (SMILE) in order to provide enhanced middle office services to investment banks and issuers worldwide. This totally automated system allows SGSS’ dedicated teams, based in Luxembourg, to provide an issue-linked proposal within a record-breaking 3 hours of a request…
Euroclear and Capital Precision Transform Equity Shareholder Identification
Capital Precision, part of global stakeholder relations firm King Worldwide, and Euroclear have today signed a co-operation agreement to centralise the provision of worldwide shareholder identification data to equity issuers in key markets. Capital Precision’s experience in obtaining comprehensive information on shareholder positions, through the application of its industry leading identification methodology, is complemented with…
Interactive Data Launches New Version of Market-Q
World Financial Information Conference, Booth #13 — Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of a suite of market data solutions for wealth management professionals and their clients, today announced the launch of Market-Q 3.5. This latest version of Interactive Data’s browser-based wealth management solution offers enhancements designed to extend wealth managers’ ability to provide timely,…
Fiserv’s Hanselman Discusses its Basel III Education Programme
Risk management solution vendor Fiserv has been engaging in an educational outreach programme with the financial services community regarding incoming regulatory developments such as Basel III. Reference Data Review speaks to Orlando Hanselman, education programmes director for risk and compliance solutions at Fiserv, about some of this work with board level execs “There is a great degree…
BT’s Pickles Raises 10 Questions About the LEI Project
Last week’s legal entity identification (LEI) focused workshops in Basel, which were organised by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), allowed a number of financial industry participants and regulators to get together and discuss their views on the creation of a global utility and a new LEI standard. However, the event also raised a number of…
Virginie’s Blog – A Step up for the FSB?
Given the discussions I had with a number of people at Sibos a couple of weeks ago, the data management industry practitioners engaged in working on establishing a new legal entity identification (LEI) standard have high hopes that the Financial Stability Board (FSB) will be able to bridge the gap between national regulators in setting…