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EFAMA Elects Mr Claude Kremer as its New President
EFAMA, the European Fund and Asset Management Association, has announced today that Mr Claude Kremer was elected President of EFAMA for a two-year term. The election of the new EFAMA head took place in Lucerne during the Annual General Meeting. The representatives of the European investment management industry also appointed two Vice-Presidents, Mr Christian Dargnat...
A Low-Latency Lap of SIFMA
Well, I’ve actually completed a few laps of the exhibits over the past couple of days. There’s no doubt the show was once again smaller than before, but the world of low latency was still pretty well represented. Here are some notes from what I’ve seen … * Content providers were few and far between....
Jan Stuart and Andy Shaw to Join Credit Suisse’s Commodities Research Group within Fixed Income Research
Credit Suisse today announced that Jan Stuart and Andy Shaw will join Credit Suisse’s Fixed Income Research Department as Head of Energy Research, and Head of Base Metals Research, respectively. Effective September 1, Mr. Stuart will be based in New York, while Mr. Shaw will be based in Singapore and join in late July. Both...
Paul Hawkins Joins Credit Suisse As Global Head Of Commodities
Credit Suisse announced today that Paul Hawkins will join the bank as a Managing Director and Global Head of Commodities in August, 2011. Mr Hawkins will be responsible for further developing the bank’s commodities business globally. He will be based in London and report to Gael de Boissard and Tony Ehinger, Co-Heads of Global Securities....
Dell Touts Performance of its TIBCO FTL Stack
The low-latency arms race continues … Dell used SIFMA to promote the performance of its servers running TIBCO’s latest FTL (Faster Than Light) messaging middleware. The bottom line: 2.5 million messages/second processed with a mean latency of 13 microseconds. At the show, Dell execs pointed to a just-released STAC-M2 benchmark report, only the second to...
GoldenSource Helps Buy and Sell Side Institutions Achieve a Consolidated View of Risk with EDM 8.3.1
For financial firms looking to keep up with recent regulatory reform, GoldenSource Corporation, a leading enterprise data management solutions provider, has today announced the generally available release of EDM Suite version 8.3.1 (EDM 8.3.1). Already successfully implemented with a client through its Powered By program, EDM 8.3.1 consolidates disparate data feeds and provides increased functionality...
GBST Global Broker Services Launches Syn~2
GBST, the global financial services technology provider, announces the launch of Syn~2, the new suite of products which provide multi-asset, multi-market settlement solutions to capital markets. The Syn~2 offering provides enhanced usability to make it easier for management to control the trading process and monitor progress on an ongoing basis across markets. The product range,...
National Bank of Abu Dhabi Gains Real-Time Analytics with SAS, Teradata
The number one bank in the United Arab Emirates, the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), will leverage market-leading technologies from Teradata, the world’s largest company focused on data warehousing, and SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, to gain a single enterprise view across the organization. This will help the bank maintain...
Latest SAS Risk Management Offerings for Banking, Insurance Help Address Regulations, Risk
To address evolving risk management practices and regulatory requirements, such as Basel III and Solvency II, SAS has ramped up risk management solutions for both banking and insurance with enhancements to SAS Risk Management for Banking and SAS Risk Management for Insurance. Leading organizations relying on enterprise risk solutions from SAS, the leader in business...
Survey: Risk Management Under Pressure as Firms Refocus on Profits, Growth
Has the financial services industry reached a comfort zone, placing it in jeopardy of another crisis? Are today’s risk management practices and reporting in tune with existing risk culture and organizational expectations? Despite lessons learned, reform remains threatened by an imbalance of risk management demands and actual programs and practices in place, according to a...