Daniel Villardi, Sr. has joined Xcitek as account relationship manager for its flagship corporate actions software solution, XSP. He was previously responsible for corporate actions processing at the Bank of New York. Villardi will report to Frank Piraino, senior vice president, XSP client relationship management and sales operations, and will be responsible for post-implementation relations with North American XSP clients.
The deadline for compliance with Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is looming, requiring firms within the scope of the regulation to ensure they have Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) in place for all the clients, counterparties and issuers they deal with. As the industry mantra goes, No LEI, No Trade. This webinar will...
Just over a year into his tenure as chief executive of financial data automation provider SmartStream, Akber Jaffer finds himself surveying a data industry that’s changed enormously over his short time at the UK-based company. Chat GPT was a year old when he took on his new role and the artificial intelligence (AI) technology’s revolutionary...
Our TradingTech Briefing in New York is aimed at senior-level decision makers in trading technology, electronic execution, trading architecture and offers a day packed with insight from practitioners and from innovative suppliers happy to share their experiences in dealing with the enterprise challenges facing our marketplace.
Rather than detracting attention away from corporate actions automation projects, the financial crisis appears to have accentuated the importance of the vital nature of this data. Financial institutions are more aware than ever before of the impact that inaccurate corporate actions data has on their bottom lines as a result of the increased focus on...