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State Street Appoints Finbarr Downing as New Head of Compliance for State Street International Ireland
State Street Corporation, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, today announced the appointment of Finbarr Downing to head of compliance for State Street International Ireland. Finbarr joins State Street from Northern Trust where he served as head of fund and regulatory compliance. As head of compliance for State Street’s...
Robert Pickel Appointed Chief Executive Officer of International Swaps and Derivatives Association – Conrad Voldstad to Serve as Special Advisor to the Board
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, (ISDA) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Robert Pickel as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2012. Mr Pickel, who is one of the derivatives markets’ most experienced and accomplished executives, returns to the post after serving as the Association’s Executive Vice Chairman for the past...
Basis Technologies and UC4 to Provide Customers with Integrated Solutions for Large Scale Automated Data Processing
Basis Technologies International (BTI), a leader in add-on solutions that optimise SAP, has announced a strategic partnership with UC4, the world’s largest, independent IT automation software company. The partnership will deliver innovative solutions for SAP customers, including the integration of BTI’s Mass Data Runtime—a solution which delivers dramatic data processing improvements and is certified as...
Loomis Sayles Selects Cadis as its Central Data Hub
Loomis Sayles & Company, US-based investment management firm with over $156 billion AUM, has selected the Cadis EDM platform to centralize its data management processes. Cadis, the global EDM specialist, will provide a significant enhancement to the company’s infrastructure, delivering cleansed and validated data while allowing for increased transparency and data governance throughout the organization....
Sun Life Global Investments Selects Broadridge Canada’s Smart Fund Facts Solution
Broadridge Financial Solutions, today announced that Sun Life Global Investments (Canada) has started an initiative to use Broadridge Canada’s Smart Document Creation solution for the automated creation of regulatory Point-of-Sale (POS) Fund Facts documents. The Smart Document Creation solution will create Fund Facts documents for mutual funds through an automated document creation process. In addition...
Monoline Exposures Resulted in $54 Billion in Charges for Banks, According to New ISDA Study
The counterparty credit risk exposure of 12 US bank holding companies and international banking companies to monoline insurers has led to some $54 billion in write-downs by the banks since 2007, according to a new analysis by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA). ISDA conducted the study as part of its examination into...
PIMCO Boosts Portfolio Management Analytics Team with Three New Hires
PIMCO, a leading global investment management firm, has expanded its portfolio management analytics team with the appointment of three new investment professionals in its New York and London offices. The new personnel are: Vasant Naik, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Empirical Research, based in the London office; Stefano Risa, Executive Vice President and...
PolarLake Announce Solution Suite for Financial and Reference Data
Today PolarLake announce the availability of the PolarLake Solution Suite. The PolarLake Solution Suite, which is the result of numerous successful client implementations and joint developments, offers four out of the box solutions built on top of the PolarLake Data Management Platform. The PolarLake Solution Suite includes: Ø PolarLake Price Processing Solution: Including an out...
FIA Replay: Event Driven Trading – Should You Consider It?
A few weeks ago, I was in Chicago for the FIA Expo, and the nice people at CFN Services asked me to moderate a panel on “Event Driven Trading – Should You Consider It?” Of course, I said yes. For those wondering, event driven trading means trading on news, as opposed to market prices that...
Interactive Data Nabs Doe for Trading Solutions
While it’s not exactly shouting about it, Interactive Data Corp.’s 3rd quarter financial results announcement noted that Emmanuel Doe has joined the company to run its Trading Solutions business. Until recently, Doe was a global business manager at Thomson Reuters, focusing on high frequency trading. At Interactive Data – which he joined at the end...