Emerging Technologies
Smith Signs On to Lead Data Explorers Expansion
Donal Smith, former senior executive at Thomson Financial and newly appointed chief executive of London-based securities lending data provider Data Explorers, plans to expand the vendor's business in response to increased demand for securities lending…
Berry Bows Out from Barclays Capital
Prominent market data industry professional David Berry has left his position as head of market data business management at Barclays Capital after only 18 months in the role, and as a result has suspended his participation in French market data consumer…
Data Vendors Ally Against Xinhua News
Major international financial information vendors might not renew contracts with China's state-run Xinhua News Agency to allow them to operate in China, following a complaint filed last week by European and US authorities demanding that China loosens…
China Brokers Step Up FX Price Blackout
Distribution of market data on foreign exchange forwards and swaps in the Chinese interbank market has all but ceased as a result of broker anxiety over an opaque FX regulatory environment.
Reuters Unveils Credit Alerts, Bundled Valuations
Reuters last week unveiled two new data products-a system for generating alerts on credit-related events, and a new bundled valuation service-while at the same time launching an initiative to elicit feedback from industry participants on the best…
A Life WithBasel II
Citigroup's customer data veteran Julia Sutton talks to Carla Mangado about the complexities of Basel II and why regulation is essential if the industry is to move forward
Tom Sanzone, Ian Werner, Yasuo Kitagawa
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Sanzone Out, Landert In at Credit Suisse
ZURICH-At press time, officials from Credit Suisse announced that Karl Landert, most recently head of IT for the firm's private banking business, has been named CIO, filling the position left by Tom Sanzone.
NYSE Euronext Buys IVRS for Valuations
NYSE Euronext last week unveiled a portfolio valuations service, dubbed Prime Source, following its acquisition last week of the Independent Valuation and Risk Services (IVRS) business from UK-based software vendor Lombard Risk Management for £700,000.