SuperDerivatives has appointed Stephen Baker as head of sales for the UK, Ireland, Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining SuperDerivatives, Baker served as head of the Hedge Fund Consulting Practice at Accenture, which he established in the UK. His experience also includes senior sales management positions at Bloomberg in London and New York. Baker is based in the company’s European headquarters in London.
The January 2018 compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is approaching fast, so how ready are financial institutions to meet the directive’s requirements, what data management processes should they be prioritising to ensure compliance, and what outstanding challenges do they face? Also, what do regulators expect firms to have in...
Institutional capital in private markets is not just slowing, it is narrowing. A new dataset drawn from fund administrator reporting flows suggests that the share of assets held by the largest managers has reached its highest level on record, that all but one alternative asset class saw net outflows in the final quarter of 2025,...
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 European corporate actions market could be the stage of some pretty heavy duty discussions regarding standards going forward, particularly with regards to the adoption of both XBRL tagging and ISO 20022 messaging. The region’s issuer community, for one, is not going to be easy to convince of the benefits of XBRL tags, given the...
