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.
Migration of financial apps and data to the cloud is well underway as financial institutions take the opportunity to cut the cost of running systems on premise, scale as and when required, and spin up test environments quickly and inexpensively. Moving the trading technology stack to the cloud is a different and more difficult proposition....
CounterpartyLink has upgraded its compliance data product to address the requirements of MiFID and the Third EU Money Laundering Directive, both of which come into effect in November this year. Although each of the new directives has its own specific requirements, there are some common themes around the need to adopt a risk-based approach to...
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.
The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act – aka FATCA – raised eyebrows when its final regulations requiring foreign financial institutions (FFIs) to report US accounts to US tax authorities were published last year. But with the exception of a few modifications, the legislation remains in place and starts to comes into force in earnest...