FTSE Taps White for Content Services Unit

Index provider FTSE is setting up a new internal business unit, dubbed Content Services, to manage internally all the data produced and sourced by the vendor, and package it for commercial use where appropriate, and has hired market and reference data expert John White from State Street Global Advisors to run the new group.

As managing director of Content Services, reporting to FTSE’s chief marketing officer, White is currently creating a business plan for the unit, which has the broad remit of