RVS Grows London Presence with Sykes Hire

Singapore-based benchmark data provider Rate Validation Services (RVS) has hired Alistair Sykes as senior manager for client solutions for the UK and Europe, as part of an ongoing 12-month expansion plan for its London office.

Sykes spent almost 10 years as director of over-the-counter interest rates valuations at UK-based data vendor Markit (and formerly at Totem, a supplier of consensus valuations and month-end data, which was acquired by Markit in 2004), prior to which he was a risk analyst