XcitekConsultingServices has hired Michael O’Neill as vice president, responsible for the recruitment and placement of securities operations professionals within financial institutions on a consulting basis. Prior to XCS O’Neill spent 15 years at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) where he was involved in areas such as settlement, income collection, underwriting, reorganization/redemption, reconciliation and institutional delivery.
The regulation clock is ticking. Financial firms, especially those subject to Phase I of implementation, are well aware of the impending April 2020 deadline for the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation. The question is, are they ready? Tactical, i.e painful, approaches to compliance won’t be good enough. A strategic plan of attack is necessary to combat...
Juniper Square has, from a virtual standing start, become one of the fastest-growing providers of data and investor services to private-market participants. Earlier in the summer it received a US$130 million series D capital injection that underscored its prospects and valued the company within unicorn territory. That’s unsurprising for a company whose platform has, since...
Now in its 9th year, the RegTech Summit in London will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the European capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change.
Entity data management is this year’s hot topic as financial firms focus on entity data to gain a better understanding of customers, improve risk management and meet regulatory compliance requirements. Data management programmes that enrich the Legal Entity Identifier with hierarchy data and links to other datasets can also add real value, including new business...