Steven Harcourt has joined Standard & Poor’s European Structured Finance team, as senior structured finance evaluator, after spending seven years at FT Interactive Data and four years at Merrill Lynch. Harcourt will continue to develop the team’s new European ABS/MBS Evaluation model, reporting to Peter Jones, director of securities evaluations at Standard & Poor’s in London, himself previously with FT Interactive Data.
As interest in trading digital assets continues to increase among institutional investors, so too does the need to focus on market structure, regulation and trading solutions. For financial institutions that get it right the rewards will be significant, but it is not necessarily easy and the challenges are many. This webinar will consider how digital...
Early indications from this week’s Financial Stability Board (FSB) meeting of the Legal Entity Identifier Private Sector Preparatory Group (LEI PSPG) suggest great progress has been made since PSPG working groups were set up in July to consider the governance, operations and data issues of an LEI system. But concern remains around a lack of...
Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology London examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
he US may seem to be ahead of the rest of the world in terms of championing the data management cause with the inclusion of reference data focused items in the Dodd-Frank Act, but Europe is not too far behind. Senior European level officials such as European Central Bank (ECB) president Jean-Claude Trichet have taken...
