Ken Byrne has been appointed executive vice president of worldwide field operations for Calypso Technology, a provider of front-to-back-office trading solutions. Based in New York, Byrne will be responsible for global sales and professional services worldwide.
His experience includes running his own consulting practice in addition to holding senior roles at Reuters during 13 years with the company, including EVP asset management and EVP, North America.
While digital transformation of front-office functions at financial institutions is well underway, the back office is lagging, calling on firms to reassess and innovate post-trade processes. The need for change is highlighted by specific issues, including the move towards T+1 settlement and increasing regulatory scrutiny of post-trade processes, as well as broader challenges of legacy...
By Andrew Delaney, President, A-Team Group. We hear it time and time again – at our conferences, on our roundtables and from our advisory boards: our beloved financial data and technology industry is suffering from an acute skills shortage. Flip to the other side of the coin, and employers and parents alike fret about the...
A-Team Group’s Digital Assets & Tokenisation Briefing assembles an exclusive group of CxOs and senior technology innovators. These leading market practitioners and infrastructure providers are collectively building the digital rails and decentralised networks that will power Wall Street 2.0.
After initial hesitancy, interest in digital assets from institutional market participants has grown over the past three to four years. Early focus inevitably centred on the market opportunities presented by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But this has evolved into a broad acceptance of a potentially meaningful role for digital assets in institutional markets. It’s now...