Misys Names Executive To Bolster Basel II Capabilities
Misys Risk Management Systems has named Savita Verma to lead its product management, financial engineering and research operations. Verma was previously vice president of Scotiabank. The company has also appointed David Welton Basel II specialist, reporting to Verma. Meanwhile, chief operating officer Michel Van Leeuwen has added Frank Weyns to his team. Weyns was previously...
Telekurs Adds Three to U.K. Sales Operation
Telekurs (UK) is continuing with its spate of hires in the sales area, adding three to its sales team based in London. Reto Baumann, a seven-year Telekurs veteran, has relocated from Tokyo to become sales manager, responsible for new business sales and key accounts. Faye Cooper has joined as key account manager from Reuters, where...
Eagle’s Riley to Retire at End of Year
Eagle Investment Systems’ chief executive, Jack Riley, will retire at the end of the year, 13 years after co-founding the company. David Palten, another co-founder and currently president of Eagle, will assume the additional role of CEO, reporting to Jim Palermo, vice chairman of Mellon Financial Corp. and president of Mellon Global Securities Services. Riley...
Former Thomson Sales Head Lait Emerges at Standard & Poor’s
Standard & Poor’s has hired Sue Lait, former European sales director at Thomson Financial in London, to lead sales and support for S&P’s investment services business. Lait spent nine years at Thomson Financial, which she left earlier this year having being only recently promoted to sales head. Prior to that she ran the strategic accounts...
New COO for Wilco North America
ADP Wilco, a subsidiary of Automatic Data Processing, has promoted Ivar Eilertsen to the post of chief operating officer for North America. In his new role at ADP Wilco, Eilertsen has responsibility for ADP Wilco’s North American operations including business development and customer relationships, delivery of software services and all aspects of day-to-day business operations....
Xcitek Takes Stokes from Telekurs
Gary Stokes has joined the London office of XcitekSolutionsPlus, a developer of corporate actions automation solutions, as sales executive. He will focus on expanding the U.S.-based company’s European customer base. The London office was opened in May. Stokes was previously sales executive at data provider Telekurs Financial, where he was responsible for new business sales....
Evans to Head Risk at eFunds
Robert Evans has joined eFunds as managing director of risk management solutions. He was previously director of product management, development and marketing at remittance processing and content management vendor Regulus Group, and held positions at Orion Management and First Union Corp., now part of Wachovia.
SmartStream Technologies Continues Hiring Bonanza
SmartStream Technologies has recruited Steve Lewis from Capco and Tim Collins from Mercator following its acquisition of messaging and business processes management specialist Connextive. Collins will head SmartStream’s professional services division for the newly acquired products. He has worked for Mercator for the past 10 years, where he was principal of its professional services division....
IFDS Names Carpenter to Lead U.K. Sales
International Financial Data Services (IFDS) has hired Daniel Carpenter as head of U.K. sales, reporting to managing director Paul Roberts. IFDS is a transfer agency joint venture between DST Systems and State Street. Carpenter was previously sales and marketing director at Cor Financial Solutions, and has held positions at Kinetic Information Systems, Primark – now...
Ex-Reuters STP Executive Smith Emerges at TradeWeb
TradeWeb, the institutional transaction portal for fixed income securities, has named Chris Smith to lead its European straight-through-processing initiative. In the face of continuing competition in the electronic bond trading arena, TradeWeb has been emphasizing its STP capabilities as an edge over potential rivals. Smith will oversee the launch of TradeWeb’s TradeXpress STP product in...