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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…
Brett Hodge Leaves Avox for Fenergo Asia Pac
Brett Hodge has left his position as manager Asia at DTCC’s Avox to head up sales for Fenergo in its newly opened Asia Pacific operation. Brett will be based on sunny Sydney, Australia. This follows earlier expansion by the Irish company into Boston and New York at the start of the year. Fenergo’s CEO Marc…
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…
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…
Interactive Data’s Stephan Wolf is Named as CEO of the Global LEI Foundation
Stephan Wolf, chief technology officer and member of the executive board at Interactive Data Managed Solutions AG has been named as the CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) that was established in June 2014 and will oversee the development and operation of the Central Operating Unit of the Global LEI System. The…
Opinion: Piecing Together the Data Scientist Puzzle
By Dev Bhudia, Vice President, Product Management, GoldenSource Depending on whom you speak to, the definition of a data scientist seems to mean different things to different people. Some see it as a glorified number crunching role, while others believe the position requires someone more inquisitive to spot and respond to key trends. The role…
Markit Integrates Datasets to Deliver Enhanced iNAV for ETPs
Markit has integrated its fixed income evaluated pricing and fair value data services with exchange traded fund data to deliver an enhanced intraday net asset value (iNAV) service for exchange traded products (ETPs). The service is available immediately and is designed to improve transparency around ETP pricing. The company has offered an iNAV service for…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: It’s All About the People
Social media is a wonderful thing. It’s how I know that an industry friend is gallivanting around Australia. Or making an intriguing connection with another industry friend. Or has got a new job. This week, LinkedIn yielded a couple of interesting snippets. As you’ll have seen, Kate Toumazi has moved to the new role of…
Kate Toumazi Switches Role to Become Head of Risk and Data Services at Thomson Reuters
Kate Toumazi has moved from the role of global head of front office in the Enterprise Content leadership team at Thomson Reuters to take up the new role of global head of risk and data services in the Pricing and Reference Services leadership team within the company’s risk division. The new role has been designed…
GoldenSource Names New CEO as it Moves into EDM as a Service
In a move to position itself for the next generation of enterprise data management (EDM) as a service, GoldenSource has named former Pivot chief John H Eley as CEO. Eley replaces Mike Meriton, who has led GoldenSource since January 2002 and remains at the firm as vice chairman with a remit to capitalise on growth…