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Updated: Brendan Beith Leaving Role as European Ref Data MD at Interactive Data
Brendan Beith is leaving Interactive Data, where he has been managing director, pricing and reference data for Europe, Middle East and Africa for the past four years. Update: His role is being filled by Claudio Salinardi of Thomson Reuters. Claudio has spent the past 10 years at Thomson Reuters, most recently as managing director, fixed…
Tom Dalglish Joins SmartStream
Tom Dalglish has moved on from iGate Global Solutions to join SmartStream Technologies, where he takes the title of head of transformation services. In this role, Dalglish will use his reference data management expertise to manage transformation projects for post-trade processing and data management services for global clients. His initial responsibility will be to manage…
Are These the Best Providers of Enterprise Data Management Platforms?
Do you think Goldensource is the best sell-side enterprise data management platform? Or Fidelity ActionsXchange is the best corporate actions processing platform? How about Wolters Kluwer as the best regulatory solutions provider? Or DTCC’s Avox as the best LEI data solution? These are some of the winners of last year’s Data Management Summit Awards. If…
Interactive Data Offers Compliance Solution for AIFMD
Interactive Data has introduced a compliance solution for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) that came into force this week, but compliance may not be plain sailing with the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) warning that implementation of the regulation is incomplete. Interactive Data has pulled together existing data and created new data required…
Mark Hepsworth Returns to London as President of Interactive Data EMEA
Interactive Data has confirmed that Mark Hepsworth has returned to London to lead the company’s EMEA business as president. His responsibilities include the company’ pricing and reference data, trading solutions, managed solutions and desktops businesses in the region. Hepsworth remains a member of the company’s global executive committee. Hepsworth moved to London early this year…
A-Team Group Webinar Offers Insight into Improving Data Contributions
Data contributions to financial benchmarks have been a cause for concern since the Libor scandal emerged in 2012, yet despite heavy fines imposed on banks that manipulated the rate, only now are efforts to improve the situation being made in earnest. Addressing the issues of data contributions to the market, an A-Team Group webinar entitled…
European Fund Administration Benefits from AIM Portfolio Pricing Solution
European Fund Administration (EFA) has deployed AIM Software’s GAIN Portfolio Pricing business application to manage increasing regulatory requirements around portfolio pricing and meet growing client demand for more frequent net asset value (NAV) calculations. The AIM portfolio pricing application, which is based on the company’s GAIN enterprise data management platform, is the central component of…
Oversight Committee of the Global LEI System Moves Common Data File Forward
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the Global Legal Entity Identifier System (GLEIS) has published the second part of a common data file format for pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs). This follows the introduction in February 2014 of a first common data file format for pre-LOUs to use in publishing LEI data or communicating with other…
Vulpes Cuts Costs with Markit’s Expanded Portfolio Valuations Service
Vulpes Investment Management has increased data accuracy and decreased vendor and technology costs by deploying valuations, risk and straight-through-processing (STP) provided by Markit. The Singapore-based investment manager was using different vendor systems to support portfolio management, execution, evaluation and risk across asset classes including exchange traded derivatives, private equity and illiquid debt holdings, but wanted…
IFRS & AIFMD – Managing the Pricing and Transparency Paradigm
The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) present the market with a broad and complex range of obligations. In many cases these are the first set of common obligations that will impact Fund Managers, Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, Fund Administrators & Custodians all at the same time! Going…