Markit Group has hired Will Meldrum as director of acquisitions and strategic development, pointing to further acquisitive activity by the credit markets pricing vendor. Meldrum previously worked at Deutsche Bank for four years as director and head of global markets strategic investments. In this role, he was involved in the original sale of the collaborating banks (including Deutsche Bank) sale of their Reference Entity Database (RED) to Markit.
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