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Accenture Loses Data Outsourcing Leader Bill Cline to Acai Solutions
Bill Cline has left Accenture, where he was managing director, global capital markets industry for North America and Asia-Pacific, and had spearheaded Accenture’s managed reference data service proposition in conjunction with Asset Control. He is now global managing partner at New York City-based management consulting company Acai Solutions. Cline’s departure from Accenture follows the retirement…
New Head of ICMA Ltd Milne Predicts Data Aggregation Role
As a collector of data, the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) will play an important role in helping the industry deal with the increased reporting requirements, need for greater transparency and greater requirement for accurate data in a post-MiFID/Basel II European marketplace, believes the new managing director of ICMA Ltd, Kevin Milne. The changes to…
Financial Tradeware Appoints CIG Business Partner for North America
Financial Tradeware has partnered with New York-based Computer Intelligence Group (CIG) to bring its solutions to the North American and Caribbean regions. Under the terms of the agreement CIG, an IT consulting and services company that also recently partnered with reference data specialist AIM Software (Reference Data Review, January 2007), will market, install and support…
DSTi Names Tom Abraham as its New Chief Executive Officer
DST International (DSTi), provider of solutions for investment managers including a data warehouse offering that competes with products from Netik and Eagle, has hired Tom Abraham as its new chief executive officer, replacing Mike Winn, who will retire after 15 years with the organisation in spring 2007. Abraham most recently directed the strategic solutions –…
GoldenSource Hires Greg Stockett as Chief Financial Officer
GoldenSource has appointed Greg Stockett, most recently the CFO of GlobeOp Financial Services, as its chief financial officer, replacing its outgoing CFO Harpreet Grewal.
CB.Net Appoints Tim Boyce Chairman
Payments reference data specialist CB.Net has appointed Tim Boyce, formerly a non-executive director, chairman, to support its international growth. CB.Net’s former chairman Phillip Horsnall remains on the board as a non-executive director.
Reuters Appoints IDC’s Oldham to Manage Asia Pacific Pricing Service
Malcolm Oldham, previously responsible for Interactive Data’s evaluated fixed income pricing throughout the Asia Pacific region, has joined Reuters to manage its Pricing Service, launched in Asia Pacific in March 2006. Oldham is based in Melbourne, and reports to Pricing Service management in New York.
Jordan & Jordan Hires Neil Edelstein as Director and Reference Data Specialist
Jordan & Jordan’s Management Consulting Practice has appointed Neil Edelstein as director and reference data specialist. Edelstein joins Jordan & Jordan from Accenture where he was a senior manager of data management services.
Lehman’s Paula Hardy Appointed FISD Programme Director
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association has appointed Paula Hardy as program director. Joining FISD after 13 years at Lehman Brothers, where she was most recently vice president for contracts and vendor management, Hardy started at FISD on January 8 and is based in Washington, DC.
Savitsky and Geraghty Join Markit as ABS specialists
Markit Group has appointed James Savitsky and Thomas Geraghty as directors within its global asset backed securities (ABS) sales and product development teams. Savitsky, who joins from Trepp, will coordinate Markit’s ABS sales effort globally, distributing the firm’s data and analytics services for the structured finance markets. Geraghty, formerly man-aging director at Wall Street Analytics,…