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EC’s Barnier Indicates Will Not Go Ahead with Proposed Mark to Market Changes Before IASB Rules are Finalised
The European Commission’s EU Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier has publicly stated this week that Europe will not go ahead with the adoption of the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) proposed mark to market changes before the related accounting rules are finalised. The accounting standards body has been working on a redefinition of fair value...
Carne Director Appointed to Board of Oddo Alternative Investment Fund
John Donohoe, CEO of Carne Financial Services Group, has been named as an independent director to the board of the brand new Oddo Asset Management fund, called Orsay Merger Arbitrage. The fund will follow an M&A arbitrage strategy, and will be managed by fund manager Christian Fleury, who headed the merger arbitrage team at Banque...
Deutsche Bank’s Scott and Northern Trust’s Chapman Highlight the Regulatory Deluge Facing Ops Teams in 2012
There are so many regulations facing the corporate actions and securities operations sector that back office teams may be hard pushed to get on with their day job, said Justin Chapman, global head of industry management, operations and technology at Northern Trust, at this month’s CorpActions 2011 conference in London. Nick Scott, managing director and...
New Chairman of the ABFA
The Asset Based Finance Association has announced the appointment of its new chairman, John Bevan, head of Trade and Working Capital UK & Ireland at Barclays Corporate. John has worked in the invoice finance industry for the past 16 years and been at Barclays Corporate since 2007 where he is responsible for growing the trade...
Issuers Won’t Adopt Standards Without a Solid Business Case and Market-wide Agreement, Says Computershare’s Sarkar
The issuer community is wary of adopting new standards without a solid business case and before the rest of the industry has agreed on which standard is best, said Naz Sarkar, CEO of issuer agent firm Computershare Investor Services, at this month’s CorpActions 2011 conference. Sarkar defended the position of issuers, who are frequently criticised...
S&P Hires Ex-Thomson Reuters Data Consultant Nash for Enterprise Role
Standard & Poor’s has hired ex-Thomson Reuters EMEA and global head for its data consultancy business Penny Nash into its Enterprise Solutions team. Nash had been with Thomson Reuters since 2005 and has been involved in its data team and its corporate actions focused business lines over the course of her career at the data...
Nationwide Financial Selects DST Global Solutions’ Anova Performance Solution
DST Global Solutions, a leading global provider of software technology and services to the investment management industry, today announced that Nationwide Financial has chosen DST’s Anova middle office investment analytics solution to strengthen its managed account performance measurement and reporting capabilities. The solution is designed to enable clients such as Nationwide to report managed account...
Kinetic Partners Hire Pierre Bourlatchka
Pierre Bourlatchka has been appointed a Director at Kinetic Partners and will join the risk management consulting and monitoring team in London. This new appointment will further enhance Kinetic Partners’ comprehensive service offering across the risk spectrum. Pierre joins Kinetic Partners from F&C Asset Management, where he worked for the Alternative Investment Market Risk team,...
Bats Europe Goes West to Equinix’s Community
So, Bats Europe has officially signed on to relocate its matching engines to Equinix’s LD4 facility in Slough, west of London. If all goes well, it will be up and running at its new location in October, as a new member of the ‘community’ there. Of course, if all goes very well, by then the...
Mr. René Anger Leaves Pricing Partners
Pricing Partners, the world leader in OTC derivatives pricing analytics, mathematical models and independent valuations, announced today that after five years of collaboration between Pricing Partners and René Anger, its previously CTO, have agreed to part the company. Mr Eric Benhamou stated: “We thank René for his contribution to Pricing Partners. We wish him success...