diliger enhances Market Data Procurement Service with the addition of three senior specialists

LONDON - July 16, 2014 - PRLog -- diliger, the rapidly growing procurement support platform for investment and capital markets professionals, today announced that it has hired Judith Humby and Wendy Cartledge as product managers and Sheena Clark as business development executive. The new team joins diliger as it continues to disrupt the traditional way people research and evaluate solutions such as market data.  With online search, RFI download and comparison reports available on the fly, the new team will use the collective expertise to expand the depth of research, increase functionality and promote community growth.

Judith Humby has over 20 years’ experience in market data, research, analysis and consultancy across various remits within financial institutions. Having carried out research, cost-savings reviews and market data management for a number of institutions, she has a deep awareness of the needs of consumers and the aims of data and technology vendors. She has worked in client facing roles at market data vendors, within consultancies and in market data procurement roles within tier 1 financial institutions.

Wendy Cartledge has over 20 years' experience in multiple roles from user to technologist to research, with specialties in derivatives and wealth management, including 6 years as CAO at Lehman Brothers and at a Private Client firm. With a deep understanding in trading platforms and market data requirements, she also understands the procurement process, cost and vendor management, and regulatory requirements.

Sheena Clark brings to diliger more than 25 years of market data industry experience, including senior positions at Inter Dealer Brokers producing OTC data products, data acquisition experience and data contribution/benchmark fixing expertise to global regulators and the investment community. She has been involved with all key real time global regulations since the EU Transparency Directive began.

“The timing could not be better for Judith, Wendy and Sheena to join our executive team. diliger’s recognition as a procurement support tool is going viral and our need for inhouse expertise is insatiable. We’ve set a very aggressive agenda for data and data tool sourcing and are now focused on securing the full representation of data vendors for our investment banking and asset management clients.  Judith, Wendy and Sheena bring a well-established track record of success in helping organisations achieve their technology goals and regulatory obligations.” said Christian Bower, CEO, diliger.

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About diliger, the marketplace for the financial community

diliger is the leading research and procurement support platform for the capital markets and investment professionals sourcing systems, market data, infrastructure and securities services.  Underpinned by pre-completed RFIs diliger is developed by industry experts to support market research and evaluation of solutions and services against a broad set of requirements criteria.  For buyers, this means greater accuracy of results, procurement efficiency and faster time to market. For suppliers, there has never been a more simple, yet targeted way of communicating information about a full suite of products and services at the exact time buyers are conducting due diligence. This includes being able to view statistics on the number of times services have been searched for.

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