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RBC Dexia Appoints New Director in Hong Kong
RBC Dexia Investor Services has appointed Alessandro Silvestro to the role of Director of Business Development for Asia. Based in Hong Kong, Mr. Silvestro will be responsible for driving RBC Dexia’s growth strategy in the region for both onshore and offshore mandates. He will report to Brent Reuter, Managing Director of Hong Kong and Head...
ISDA Announces Commodity Derivatives Trade Repository Selection
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) announced today that the ISDA Commodities Steering Committee has chosen Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) Deriv/SERV and EFETnet to partner with the Committee on the next stage of development of the Commodity Derivatives Trade Repository. This selection is the result of a public Request for Proposals...
Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management has Boosted its Asset Allocation Team
A graduate of ESC Nantes/Audencia, 33 years, Thomas Vlieghe’s first position in 2003 was at AGF Asset Management where he worked as an assistant equity fund manager. In 2004, he joined Bryan, Garnier & Co as a broker on European stocks. He then moved to Allianz Global Investors in 2005 where he spent 6 years...
Q&A: Brennan Carley of Spread Networks on New Services for New Customers
is rolling another connectivity service between Chicago and the NYC metro area – this time one that addresses the market that does not need the lowest latency, and which is more price sensitive. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with the company’s senior vice president of product marketing Brennan Carley to discuss the new service, the different requirements...
SIFMA 2011 – Booth 1101 – What to Expect
Today is the first day of the annual SIFMA show. And each year since it’s been run at the Hilton, Booth 1101 is the very first one that punters encounter following registration. So in some respects, it sets the tone for the entire trade show, and perhaps what is hot in the financial technology marketplace....
ConvergEx’s Eze Castle Software Launches Data Management Solution
ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced the launch of Eze Data Management, a highly extensible, multi-asset class data repository that provides the tools for data enrichment, maintenance of “golden copy” reference data, as well as aggregation, tracking and reporting on performance and risk data. The new product seamlessly integrates with ConvergEx’s award-winning Eze...
Standard & Poor’s VRS and Sapient Global Markets Alliance
Sapient Global Markets and Standard and Poor’s Valuation and Risk Strategies (S&P VRS) have today announced a formal alliance to provide clients with in-depth valuation and analysis of structured finance securities including asset- and mortgage-backed securities (ABS/MBS), and covered bonds. The agreement will address the need for transparency and risk management for large volume portfolios,...
STAC Points to Everest Boost
Via a report sponsored by data feed handler specialists SR Labs, the benchmarkers at STAC have just announced data for initial tests run on Intel’s recently-introduced Everest chip. Compared to Intel’s standard Westmere chip, one data point suggests a 22% reduction in mean latency. Everest – or Intel’s Xeon X5698 – is a dual core...
B-One Solution Selected by Nomura Asset Management for Performance, Risk Attribution and Client Reporting
BI-SAM today announced that Nomura Asset Management U.K. has selected its B-One platform for performance, attribution and risk measurement, for its U.K. operations. The U.K. implementation is seen as a potential step towards future global deployment. With seven offices world-wide, Nomura Asset Management is a leading global asset manager. The company’s U.K. office provides a...
Reval’s Okochi and Trozzo Highlight Valuations and Data Impacts of US Swaps Market Reforms
It seems everyone’s talking about the data impacts of the Dodd Frank reforms at the moment. Last week, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) hosted a public roundtable on the subject of the new recordkeeping requirements and related standards efforts, and derivatives risk and valuations solution provider Reval also hosted its own webinar on the...