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UBS Hires John Dyment as Global Head of Hedge Fund Distribution
UBS today announced the appointment of John Dyment as Global Head of Hedge Fund Distribution, based in New York. Dyment will be responsible for the management and development of UBS’s strategically important hedge fund franchise, with global functional responsibility for sales, capital introduction and business consultancy services to the hedge fund community within Global Prime...
Allan Boardman, of London, Appointed Director of ISACA
Allan Boardman, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC, CA (SA), CISSP, information risk manager at JP Morgan (UK), was appointed director of ISACA—a global association serving 95,000 IT governance, assurance and security professionals in 160 countries—at its World Congress: INSIGHTS 2011 conference in Washington DC, USA, today. Founded in 1969, ISACA develops international standards for information systems...
BNP Paribas Improves Customer Service with Open Source Data Integration
BNP Paribas Real Estate UK, a leading provider of real estate services, has today announced that it has selected the Talend Integration Suite (TIS) to effectively manage its client data. The move is a significant part of the company’s development strategy and aims to improve customer service, by enabling the migration of confidential client data...
State Street to Provide Multi-Domicile Investment Manager Operations Outsourcing for the F&C Group
State Street Corporation, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, announced today that it has been appointed by F&C Asset Management (F&C) to provide investment manager operations outsourcing for some £106 billion in assets. State Street will provide F&C, and its subsidiary Thames River Capital with services for their global...
J.P. Morgan Completes Industry’s First Two ‘Second Generation’ Outsourcing Transactions for Asset Managers
J.P. Morgan’s Worldwide Securities Services business (J.P. Morgan WSS) today announced it has successfully completed the industry’s first two migrations of assets from an existing middle and back office services provider to its own strategic platform, on behalf of fund managers Artemis Investment Management (Artemis) and J.P. Morgan Asset Management. The range of services WSS...
Thomson Reuters Launches Cost Effective Workflow Solution for Hedge Funds
Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of a fully integrated workflow solution bringing together the best in class capabilities including Thomson Reuters Eikon and Elektron to provide the content, portfolio tools and connectivity hedge fund managers need to systematize their operations and drive returns. In an increasingly competitive marketplace hedge funds have been under greater...
CFTC Announces the 22 Members of Kirilenko’s Data Standardisation Subcommittee, Google Bags a Slot
Following the announcement last month that it would be establishing a data standardisation focused subcommittee, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced the selection of the 22 members of the team (out of the 52 that applied), which includes (interestingly) Google engineering research director Marc Donner. The other members, who will be led in...
Talend Simplifies Integration with New Talend ESB Studio and Talend ESB Enterprise Edition for Data Services
Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced the availability of Talend ESB Studio Standard Edition (SE) and Talend ESB Enterprise Edition (EE) for Data Services to accelerate the development, deployment and management of enterprise-class production environments with easy-to-use tools for development and operations teams. Talend continues to democratise the integration market by making...
Rob Ferguson Named Head of Global Securities Lending, Phil Zywot Named Head of Trading; Robert Chiuch Moves into Leadership Role at Parent Company BNY Mellon
Rob Ferguson has been named head of global securities lending at CIBC Mellon, taking on sole responsibility for leading CIBC Mellon’s capital markets team. Robert Chiuch, formerly co-head of global securities lending at CIBC Mellon, has been named managing director, US equity and corporate securities finance at CIBC Mellon’s parent company BNY Mellon. Also moving...
Virginie’s Blog – Data Gems from the Retail Banking World
Earlier this month I was in diamond capital of the world Antwerp for SAS’s annual European user conference and it was interesting to compare the stories from the vendor’s retail banking clients with those (fewer) speakers from the capital markets. It appears that when it comes to making use of banks’ primary asset, data, the...