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Russell and Axioma Launch a New Suite of ‘Long-Only’ Factor-Based Indexes
Russell Investments, which owns the most widely used U.S. equity benchmarks for institutional investment products’, and Axioma, Inc., a leading provider of advanced tools for portfolio optimization and risk analysis, have collaborated to launch a series of long-only large and small cap factor indexes. These new Russell-Axioma U.S. Small and Large Cap Factor Indexes are...
Netik Appoints Evan Lorch as Chief Financial Officer
Netik, a leading global financial information management and distribution provider, announced today the appointment of Evan Lorch to the role of Chief Financial Officer. He will sit on Netik’s executive management team reporting directly to Rob Flatley, CEO of Netik. Lorch will be based out of Netik’s New York headquarters and will assume responsibility for...
Midmar Capital Strengthens Investment Team
Midmar Capital LLP, manager of the Merrion European Absolute Return Fund, has appointed Dariusz Sliwinski to its investment team. Dariusz joins from Martin Currie Investment Ltd, where he held the position of Director and Head of Global Emerging Markets. Prior to this Dariusz was a senior investment manager with Consortium Raiffeisen Atkins which managed the...
The Current State of Data Quality for Risk, Analytics and Valuations: Letter from Asia
By Stephen Engdahl, senior vice president of product strategy for GoldenSource The impact of data quality on critical business functions is a hot topic in data management circles today and one that I was looking forward to hear more on at the A-Team Group Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations conference that took place...
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...