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Vanderbilt Professor Craig Lewis Named SEC Chief Economist and Director of RiskFin Division
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Craig M. Lewis has been named SEC Chief Economist and Director of the Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation (RiskFin). Dr. Lewis, the Madison S. Wigginton Professor of Finance at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management, is currently a visiting scholar at the SEC and...
Thomson Reuters Finally Fills S&T Top Slot
Filling a longstanding void at the top of its Sales & Trading business unit, Thomson Reuters has named former IBM general manager for banking and financial markets Shanker Ramamurthy as president, Sales & Trading, effective June 20. The top slot at Thomson Reuters’ largest operating unit, with revenues of $3.5 billion and 2,700 staff, had...
With New Switches, Cisco Weaves a Low-Latency Trading Fabric
Moving up the value chain from networking provider to low-latency solutions partner, Cisco Systems will tomorrow announce its “High-Performance Trading Fabric” initiative, which provides reference architectures for “each step of an automated trade” for financial markets participants. Cisco’s architectures combine networking, compute and storage, and are based on the company’s recently introduced Nexus 3064 and...
Andrew’s Blog – Thomson Reuters Finally Fills S&T Top Slot
Filling a longstanding void at the top of its Sales & Trading business unit, Thomson Reuters has named former IBM general manager for banking and financial markets Shanker Ramamurthy as president, Sales & Trading, effective June 20. The top slot at Thomson Reuters’ largest operating unit, with revenues of $3.5 billion and 2,700 staff, had...
Swift Sanctions Screening Service Falls Below Big Bank Grade
Swift’s sanctions screening service, which is due to go live in December this year, failed to win interest from large financial services organisations when first mooted and has instead been geared towards small and medium sized banks. Brigitte De Wilde, head of anti-money laundering and sanctions for Swift, explains to Reference Data Review that a study of...
DST Global Solutions Selects Northfield to Strengthen its Anova Platform
DST Global Solutions, a leading provider of investment management systems and services, today announced a strategic relationship with analytical and operating efficiency tool provider Northfield to provide DST Global Solutions clients with specialised fixed income attribution capabilities. Northfield’s “Everything Everywhere” global equity and fixed income model has been integrated into DST Global Solutions’ award-winning middle...
Latest JWG Risk Research Finds Industry Unlikely to be Ready for 2012 Regulatory Environment
JWG, the independent financial regulatory think-tank, today released their latest research entitled ‘Clearing the risk MI bar?’ The report is based on a survey of 20 risk, data and finance professionals in 16 global financial institutions which was released in March 2011 as well as discussions with international trade associations, regulators and technology vendors. The...
OTC Fin’s Data Warehouse to Help Buy Side Firms and Institutional Investors Achieve a Comprehensive View of Market, Credit, Liquidity and Portfolio Risk
OTC Fin, a provider of front and middle office financial technology to investment managers, hedge funds, hedge fund of funds and institutional investors, today announced the release of PAT DW (Portfolio Analysis Tool Data Warehouse), Version 3, which merges Funds of Funds and multi-asset security level data whereby providing increased transparency of portfolio holdings via...
Full Backing for European Commission Consultation on Cloud Computing
The Cloud Industry Forum has warmly welcomed the news that the European Commission has launched a public consultation on the benefits that cloud computing can deliver. Launched by Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice President for the Digital Agenda, the consultation is seeking views from citizens, businesses, public administrations and other interested parties on how to...
J.P. Morgan WSS Announces Senior Appointments to EMEA Markets Management Group
J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services (WSS) today announced that it has hired Brian Coughlin as its new Asset Managers and Insurance Companies (AMIC) Market Manager. Ann Doherty has been appointed Market Manager for WSS’ EMEA Based Complex Global Accounts. The new hire sees Mr. Coughlin join J.P. Morgan from HFX Capital, a boutique investment company...