Steven Harcourt has joined Standard & Poor’s European Structured Finance team, as senior structured finance evaluator, after spending seven years at FT Interactive Data and four years at Merrill Lynch. Harcourt will continue to develop the team’s new European ABS/MBS Evaluation model, reporting to Peter Jones, director of securities evaluations at Standard & Poor’s in London, himself previously with FT Interactive Data.
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Investment managers must take a fresh approach to data management, stressing trusted partnerships with outside expertise over traditional outsourcing models, as they seek to adapt to a rapidly changing economic landscape, a report has urged. The binary build-versus-buy strategy that has been the basis of innovation adoption for decades has been upended by advances in...
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Increasing volumes and the complexity of reference data in the post-crisis environment have left the middle office struggling to meet the requirements of the current market order. Middle office functions must therefore be robust enough to be able to deal with the spectre of globalisation, an increase in the use of esoteric security types and...