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 part of Thomson Financial – and Britannia Software.
Best execution under MiFID II and other current regulations presents practitioners with a daunting challenge: How does my firm provide evidence that it acted in the best interests of the client? The response necessarily requires storage of vast quantities of data from multiple sources and communications channels, for long periods of time – in the...
The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) raises significant data management challenges, but it is only one of a number of tax avoidance schemes that are emerging, making a strategic rather than tactical approach the best way to achieve compliance. The challenges of FATCA were discussed during a recent A-Team Group webinar entitled ‘How...
Now in its 15th year the TradingTech Summit London brings together the European trading technology capital markets industry and examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
This year has truly been a year of change for the data management community. Regulators and industry participants alike have been keenly focused on the importance of data with regards to compliance and risk management considerations. The UK Financial Services Authority’s fining of Barclays for transaction reporting failures as a result of inconsistent underlying reference...