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Following her move from Barings Asset Management (BAM) to Northern Trust at the start of this year, Terri Van Praagh has taken on a new role as senior vice president and head of investment operations outsourcing for the EMEA region. Prior to this role and since January, Van Praagh has been senior vice president and head of market operations for the global custodian.


















As part of its outsourcing deal with the Germany-based asset manager, Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS) migrated Credit Suisse Asset Management’s data in just six months, according to the asset servicing firm. The implementation involved moving data regarding 66 funds and around 7,000 individual positions to investment management system SimCorp Dimension.
It is no secret that Swift’s 2015 plan includes a great deal more about reference data than previous strategies devised by the industry network operator (see recent commentary on which
The data management and risk functions of financial institutions have become subject to a “shotgun wedding of sorts”, as firms aim to tackle their underlying data quality issues in the post-crisis environment, according to panellists at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations (DMRAV) conference in NYC (see details of the London sister event coming up on 17 October
By Stephen Engdahl, senior vice president of product strategy for GoldenSource
Dow Jones has added an Apple iPad app to the Dow Jones Investment Banker (DJIB) suite and says it will create apps for more tablet devices as they emerge. The app is free to download from the iPad app store, but users must be registered for DJIB.


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