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Buzzelli to Depart Mellon to Join Reuters
Brian Buzzelli, who has led Mellon Financial’s foray into provision and management of reference data as part of its securities administration services offerings, is leaving the custody bank to join Reuters’ enterprise data group as part of the DataScope team. Further details weren’t available at press time.
Koch Quits Telekurs Just Weeks after Assuming New Marketing Policy Role
Telekurs Financial veteran Beat Koch has decided to leave the company. Koch most recently was head of the Swiss vendor’s global marketing policies & project function, a role he assumed under a major reorganization this spring. Before that, he was head of Telekurs Financial’s U.K. operating subsidiary and had led other subsidiaries in the past….
PolarLake Unveils OTC Derivatives Solution Based on Reference Data Distribution System
Dublin-based PolarLake has tailored its reference data distribution capabilities to create a trade lifecycle solution for the OTC derivatives marketplace. The new platform provides integration of FpML (Financial Products Markup Language)-based trade messages, reconciliation and trade matching, and business process management for OTC derivatives. According to CEO John Randles, the new platform emerged from the…
Asset Control Appoints Misys’ Bennfors CFO; IBM’s Katsoff Head of Services
Asset Control has appointed two new executives to its senior management team. Peter Bennfors joins the company from his role as operations director with the treasury and capital markets group at Misys as chief financial officer, and Rich Katsoff joins from IBM, where he was associate partner within the business consulting/financial markets group, in a…
Siperian Expands Team with Four Key Hires
Siperian, developer of a master data management (MDM) platform, has appointed four people to its executive team in response to the company’s growth and expansion into new markets. Joining Siperian are Dr Jeff Sidell in the newly created position of chief scientist; Sean Ward as vice president, worldwide sales; Tony Spensieri as vice president, financial…
GoldenSource Hires Gallagher for Sales, Edelstein for Product Role
GoldenSource has bolstered its ranks with the hire of two new senior executives. Ed Gallagher joins as senior vice president, head of sales and client operations for the Americas, and Neil Edelstein is the vendor’s new senior director of product solutions. Gallagher was most recently president and CEO of independent research provider Rapid Ratings, and…
Tim Lind Leaves GoldenSource for Strategy Role at Omgeo, Sees Opportunities to Partner Swift on SSIs
Tim Lind has parted ways with enterprise data management specialist GoldenSource for pastures new at Thomson Financial/DTCC-owned post-trade, pre-settlement solutions provider Omgeo. As Omgeo’s new managing director, strategic planning, Lind reports directly to president and CEO Marianne Brown, and is also a member of Omgeo’s executive team. Lind’s move must be viewed as something of…
Markit Hires Ex-Morgan Stanley Man Gooch to Head Valuations
An outsourced portfolio valuations service could save the industry significant amounts of money by eliminating duplication of effort by investment banks, custodians and trustees. So believes Jeff Gooch, recently appointed to head Markit Group’s portfolio valuations and trade processing businesses. Gooch joins the Markit executive management team following an 11-year stint at Morgan Stanley, where…
CMA Appoints Peter Vitale Vice President, Sales
CMA, the credit information specialist, has appointed Peter Vitale as vice president, sales for its credit market pricing data (CMA DataVision) and intraday services (CMA QuoteVision). Vitale, previously head of sales at GFI’s Data & Analytics North America Division, will be based in New York, charged with responsibility for sales and account management globally.
Data Explorers Expands Client Relationship Management Team
Securities lending data provider Data Explorers has expanded its London and Boston sales and client services teams. Colette Vernon joins the CRM team in London, and Stephanie Le Blanc joins the Boston team, both reporting to Lucy McIntosh, head of client services. Vernon previously spent more than five years at Clearstream Banking as a senior…