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SGX, DTCC Veteran Terry Gibson Joins Fiserv
Fiserv announced today that it has hired Singapore Exchange (SGX) post-trade executive, Terry Gibson, as global head of strategy for Investment Services. In this role, Gibson will lead the international business strategy and product development of the Fiserv institutional and managed account technology portfolio. As senior vice president and head of Product Management at SGX,…
DTCC and Swift Release First Drafts of Corporate Actions Announcement Messages
After a year of collaboration with Swift and XBRL US, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has finally unveiled the first set of drafts of ISO 20022-based corporate action announcement messages, which are part of its corporate actions re-engineering initiative for the US market. According to the vendor, the move away from proprietary message…
PaceMetrics’ Giblin and Boon Talk up the Benefits of a Lean EDM Model
It may have been a quiet start for PaceMetrics in the enterprise data management (EDM) space when it bagged its first EDM client back in 2004, but the vendor is hoping to raise its profile in the space over the course of this year, according to CEO Gerry Giblin and director of global sales and…
Pricing Partners Selected by Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking to Provide Independent Valuation of its Derivatives
Pricing Partners announced today that its platform Price-it Online has been selected by Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking to provide independent valuations on their equity, fixed income and credit derivative products. The topic of double valuations on financial derivatives has been of increasing importance in recent times. Eric Benhamou, CEO of Pricing Partners comments:…
FISD Launches Financial Information Associate Certification
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announces the launch of its new “Financial Information Associate” certification – the very first offering of its kind in this industry sector and the first to come out of the FISD Professional Certification program. As of May 2010, early adopters from…
BNP Paribas Fund Services Australasia Signs Multi-Year Proxy Services Agreement with Broadridge
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced that BNP Paribas Fund Services Australasia Pty has signed a multi-year agreement to use Broadridge’s Global Proxy processing services for its clients in the Australasia region. BNP Paribas, already a user of Broadridge’s proxy processing services through its France-headquartered global securities services business, has now agreed to use the Broadridge…
Interactive Data Provides Probate Valuation Service To Title Research
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data Business is providing its Probate Valuations service to Title Research, an estate administration and specialist probate research company. Launched in 2006, the service can help clients to value UK and international securities for probate…
Another One Jumps Ship at Fiserv: Hopcroft Joins XSP as Senior Sales Exec
Following the exit of ex-Investment Services head Geoff Harries and ex-marketing head Irene Mulkeen earlier this year, Fiserv has lost yet another corporate actions focused executive in the form of former sales exec Ben Hopcroft, who has joined eVent rival XSP. Hopcroft is now senior sales executive and account relationship manager for the EMEA region…
LSE’s Husler Explains Decision Behind the Move of its Transaction Reporting Service onto UnaVista
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has offered a transaction reporting service, dubbed the Exchange Reporting Service (ERS), since 2002, but has recently moved the service onto its web-hosted platform UnaVista. According to Mark Husler, head of information services business development at the LSE, the exchange operator decided to move the service onto the platform in…
Fitch Solutions Provides CDS Pricing for Korean Won
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, has extended its CDS Pricing Service to offer derived CDS pricing for Korean Won (KRW) CDS contracts, bringing transparency to this highly illiquid market to improve users’ investment and risk management decisions. Covering the Korean corporate and financial sectors, the new service is based on a proprietary…