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UK FSA Sends Out “Dear CEO” Letter Illustrating its New Interim Structure
The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has this week sent out a letter to CEOs detailing its new regulatory structure, as required under the recent government reforms to tackle oversight issues within the UK financial markets. The new structure includes the eventual transfer of the power of oversight of the banking and insurance industries to…
DTCC Appoints Ex-E*Trade and Citigroup Exec Druskin as its New Chairman
In the latest of its recent bout of hiring, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has hired ex-E*Trade Financial Corporation chairman and ex-Citigroup ops and technology head Robert Druskin as its new chairman of the board. Druskin’s appointment is likely part of the firm’s bid to position itself as a neutral body in the…
Ex-Autodesk Exec Bado Joins MarkLogic as CEO
MarkLogic Corporation today announced that Ken Bado, a veteran technology executive who most recently was the executive vice president of sales and services at Autodesk, has been named CEO and a member of the board of directors. Bado, 56, was at Autodesk for eight years and led sales and services under former Autodesk CEO Carol…
Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund Now Live on Omgeo CTM and Omgeo ALERT
Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, today announced that Birla Sun Life Asset Management Company Ltd, one of India’s flagship mutual fund managers, is the first domestic fund manager in India to go live on Omgeo Central Trade Manager (Omgeo CTM) and Omgeo ALERT, for cross border post-trade processing and standing settlement and account…
GlobeOp Hedge Fund Index Offers First Independent, Timely Window on Liquidity and Investor Sentiment
GlobeOp Financial Services will offer an independent monthly window into hedge fund capital flows with the launch next week of the first in a planned series of GlobeOp Hedge Fund Indices. “There is a real lack of independently confirmed industry data against which hedge fund managers and investors can benchmark their allocations and performance,” said…
Netik Signs as Elite Index Data Partner with NASDAQ OMX
Netik, a global provider of financial data management and reporting services and products, today announces that it has been signed as an Elite Index Data Partner with NASDAQ OMX, the world’s largest exchange company and global leader in creating and licensing benchmark indexes. Netik offers the full suite of data for all NASDAQ OMX indexes…
PaceMetrics’ Giblin Discusses Op Efficiency Focused Partnership with BPM Provider Nimbus
EDM solution vendor PaceMetrics has this month signed a non-exclusive partnership agreement with business process management (BPM) solution vendor Nimbus to tie the former’s PaceMaker solution to the latter’s Nimbus Control solution. Gerry Giblin, CEO of PaceMetrics, explains that the two vendors have been working together over the last six months to develop the partnership,…
Fiera Sceptre Selects B-One Solution for Performance, Risk Attribution and GIPS Compliancy
BI-SAM today announced that Fiera Sceptre has selected its B-One platform for performance, risk measurement and attribution, thereby becoming the group’s first Canadian client. Fiera Sceptre was formed by the merger of Sceptre Investment Counsel Limited and Fiera Capital Inc in August 2010. Fiera Capital had been approached by BI-SAM in early 2010, before its…
RBC Dexia Appoints New Managing Director for the United Kingdom
RBC Dexia Investor Services has appointed Simon Shapland as Managing Director for the UK, subject to regulatory approval. Mr. Shapland will chair the UK Management Committee and have overall responsibility locally for both the business strategy and for employee relations. He will also be in charge of client satisfaction and of developing local regulatory relationships….
ISITC Europe Meeting Highlights Data Standardisation Challenges Underlying Electronic Trade Confirmation
Last week’s ISITC Europe meeting indicated that before any action can be taken to move to higher levels of electronic trade confirmation across the industry, a number of data standardisation challenges must be tackled first. Swift’s Fabian Vandenreydt, who was promoted to the position of head of Securities and Treasury Markets earlier this year and…