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TowerGroup’s Hegarty Joins DTCC as Managing Director to Focus on Front Office
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed ex-TowerGroup executive Robert Hegarty to the newly created position of managing director of market structure. In his new role, Hegarty will be spearheading the vendor’s efforts to identify new market and growth opportunities focused on the front office and trading communities. Hegarty joins DTCC from TowerGroup,…
Swift’s Church Joins XBRL US Board of Directors
In keeping with its current work on mapping XBRL to ISO standards for corporate actions, Swift’s Americas CEO and global head of securities, Chris Church, has joined the board of directors for XBRL US. Church says his participation on the board of the non-profit consortium for XML business reporting standards reaffirms Swift’s commitment to the…
Smith Rejoins Fiserv’s Investment Services Division
Following a nine year stint at Thomson Financial, Charles Smith has rejoined Fiserv as vice president of client services for its Investment Services division. Smith previously worked at CheckFree Investment Services for seven years (now under the Fiserv banner) as vice president of product development. In his new role, Smith will act as a client…
Asset Control Poaches Misys’ McGranaghan for Product Management Role in NYC
Ex- head of development for Misys’ Treasury and Capital Markets division, Donal McGranaghan has joined Asset Control as senior vice president of product and development. Based in New York, he will lead product management and software development of the EDM vendor’s financial data management solutions. McGranaghan has also previously worked at Kindle Banking Systems, BIS…
Fitch Appoints Ex-Fidelity MD Hale as Head of Asia Pacific in Hong Kong
Credit ratings specialist Fitch has appointed ex-Fidelity executive Evan Hale as its new head of Fitch Asia Pacific in Hong Kong. He replaces Andrea Mueller, who left the firm in May 2008, and will report to Bernard De Lattre, group managing director at Fitch Ratings, who is based in Paris. Prior to this appointment, Hale…
New York Federal Reserve Poaches Citi’s Bottega as Chief Data Officer for its Markets Division
John Bottega’s no show at last year’s FIMA London event was noted by many and there was much speculation at the event that he was soon to leave his post as chief data officer for Citi’s Institutional Client Group. Reference Data Review can now indeed confirm that Bottega has moved onto pastures new: he has…
D’Arcy Finally Takes Over from Clark at Helm of Interactive Data
Following the announcement of his selection as Stuart Clark’s successor in November, Raymond D’Arcy has finally stepped into the role of president and CEO of Interactive Data. After 13 years at the helm of the vendor, Clark is retiring but will stay on as advisor for the next few months to help D’Arcy adjust to…
Swift Appoints Ex-BNY Mellon Exec Curtin as Head of Securities Initiatives for the Americas
Following the appointment of ex-BT Radianz MD Chris Church as global head of Securities last year, Swift has beefed up his new team with the addition of ex-Bank of New York Mellon executive Patrick Curtin. Curtin joins as head of securities initiatives for the Americas and will report to Church in his capacity as chief…
DSTi Appoints Laliberte as Managing Director for North America
DST International (DSTi) has appointed strategic consultant Walt Laliberte as managing director for North America. Prior to his appointment, Laliberte ran his own consultancy, Laliberte Associates, which provides a strategic consultancy service to the consulting and software industries. Laliberte has also previously worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture. His new appointment will require him to focus…
Dealogic Selects CounterpartyLink to Provide Legal Entity Data for Next 3 Years
Workflow and analytics solution provider Dealogic has selected CounterpartyLink to provide it with legal entity data in order to ensure that the vendor and its clients have access to a single and unique view of each legal entity that is being processed between the parties. The vendor opted to sign the three year agreement with…