TheMarkets.com Forms Contributor Relations and Operations Division
07 Julio 2008 - 4:32PM
PR Newswire (US)
Starts accepting research and estimates from brokers and
independent research firms in addition to owners NEW YORK, July 7
/PRNewswire/ -- TheMarkets.com, a leading provider of research,
estimates and workflow solutions to the buy-side, announced today
the formation of its global Contributor Relations and Operations
Division. This division has been created to develop and manage
relationships with brokers and independent research providers, and
to deliver their research and estimates content directly to the
Company's thousands of buy-side clients. TheMarkets.com has been a
distributor of real-time research from the world's leading
investment banks since 2001, and has grown since its founding to
serve over 2000 institutions in 46 countries. In 2003,
TheMarkets.com began redistributing research and other content from
hundreds of additional contributors through data feeds provided by
third parties. At the request of many of these contributors, the
Company is now accepting data feeds directly from contributors and
offering them additional services from TheMarkets.com, including
user-level entitlements control, of which the Company was an
industry pioneer. "Broadening our broker and independent research
provider relationships, and distributing research and estimates
content directly from these contributors to our subscribers is an
important and exciting development for TheMarkets.com. We look
forward to the continued growth of these relationships, as well as
the teams that will be supporting them," said Amy Kadomatsu, Chief
Product Officer. The Company also announced the appointment of
Peter Epstein to the position of Head of Contributor Relations,
North America. Epstein is charged with building and managing the
Company's relationships with North America-based brokers and
independent research providers, and will be further expanding the
Contributor Relations team headquartered in New York. The Company
is also forming a team to be based out of its London office.
Epstein has spent the past nine years working closely with brokers
and other research providers in a sales capacity, both at Multex,
where he formed and led the contributor relations efforts, and,
since its acquisition of Multex in 2003, at Reuters America, where
he was most recently Vice President, Head of Broker Relations. "We
are very pleased to welcome Peter to TheMarkets.com and our
Contributor Relations and Operations group," said Kadomatsu. "We
are confident that his outstanding knowledge of and reputation with
brokers and other research providers, combined with our company's
record of being a broker-friendly distribution platform, will allow
us to aggressively grow the number of research and estimates
providers we support and serve." About TheMarkets.com
TheMarkets.com is a leading provider of research, estimates, and
workflow solutions to over 2000 institutional investment management
firms worldwide. TheMarkets.com is owned by: Banc of America
Securities, LLC (NYSE:BAC), Citi (NYSE:C), Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS),
Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB), Dresdner Kleinwort, part of Dresdner Bank
AG and a member of the Allianz Group (NYSE:AZ), The Goldman Sachs
Group (NYSE:GS), JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), Lehman Brothers
(NYSE:LEH), Merrill Lynch (NYSE:MER), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), UBS
Investment Bank (NYSE:UBS), and Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI; TSX:
TRI; LSE: TRIL: Nasdaq: TRIN). CONTACT: Jasmine Swann
TheMarkets.com +1 212-812-4631 DATASOURCE: TheMarkets.com CONTACT:
Jasmine Swann of TheMarkets.com, +1-212-812-4631, Web site:
http://www.themarkets.com/
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