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DClear Services Expansion Continues with Appointment of Industry Veteran Hugh Stewart
SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist, today announced the appointment of Hugh Stewart as sales director for its DClear Services business. Stewart joins DClear with more than 30 years of sales and management experience in the global financial services and technology industries, most recently as SVP of sales, EMEA and Asia at enterprise data…
More Practitioner Feedback on the BBGID: Great Potential But More Definition Needed
Bloomberg’s new global identifier, dubbed the BBGID, is causing something of a stir within the data manager community and Reference Data Review has received more feedback on the subject this week, following on from the comments from two practitioners last week. A securities reference data practice manager at a large US investment bank explains his…
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Unveils Top 10 Corporate Actions of 2010
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services has released its annual Top 10 Corporate Actions, a list of the most challenging corporate actions from the past year. The tax and legal experts at Capital Changes, a part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services that provides corporate action reporting, tax information and analysis, compile the annual listing to alert taxpayers…
thewealthworks Chooses SIX Telekurs’ Ddata for their Troika Software
thewealthworks have chosen SIX Telekurs as a data source to compliment their Troika system, a wealth management software solution for family offices, financial institutions and private client service providers. SIX Telekurs is supplying pricing and corporate actions data via its leading market data services IPS (Intraday Pricing Service) and VDF (Valordata Feed). Troika is a…
SWIFT Strengthens Global Securities Business with New Senior Appointments
SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,500 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, announced today that Fabian Vandenreydt has been named head of Securities and Treasury Markets. He will report to Gottfried Leibbrandt, head of marketing. In his new role, Fabian will work closely with Chris Church, global head of Securities at…
Euroclear Bank to Offer Post-trade Services for Brazilian Securities
Euroclear Bank announces today the launch on 31 January of settlement, custody and related post-trade services for all Brazilian equities and domestic fixed-income securities. Transactions in these securities will be sent to Euroclear Bank’s local agent for processing in one of the three Brazilian central securities depositories (CSDs). The three CSDs are Câmara de Custódia…
Hunton & Williams Names Bridget Treacy London Office Managing Partner
Hunton & Williams is pleased to announce the appointment of Bridget Treacy as London office managing partner. Treacy, who also leads the firm’s UK privacy and information management practice, will be responsible for providing leadership and coordinating with firm leaders to oversee strategic planning and client service initiatives for the London office. She succeeds Martin…
UCITS IV Compliance Requirements are Driving Interest in SunGard’s FastVal Solution, Says Compton
Regulatory change has been kind to the valuations solution vendor community of late, with requirements for increased transparency and independence providing these firms with a perfect ‘in’ to financial institutions’ back offices. Accordingly, SunGard’s FastVal solution has witnessed this uptick in interest as a result of the increased investment in derivatives by the more traditional…
Isbank Reduces Credit Risk by Adopting Fitch Solutions’ Risk & Performance Platform
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, is pleased to announce that Isbank, Turkey’s national bank, has reinforced its credit risk reduction processes by subscribing to Fitch Solutions’ Risk & Performance Platform (RPP), thus expanding its ability to access credit risk measures, CDS pricing and ratings data. Isbank reinforced its extensive credit risk reduction…
NFA in the Frame to Take Over Derivatives Registration from the CFTC, But What of Regulatory Follow up?
Last week, Reference Data Review noted that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is contemplating ceding control over data registration requirements to another body, namely industry group the National Futures Association (NFA). The result of such an action, which itself is being driven by the regulator’s funding woes, could mean that power and influence is back in…