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Russell Investments Makes Key Appointment for Index Business

Russell Investments has appointed Shelton (Shellie) Unger as director of plan sponsor sales for Russell Indexes. Unger, who has more than thirty years of financial services experience, will lead a focused initiative to introduce the full depth and breadth of Russell Indexes’ product and service offering to the plan sponsor community in the U.S., including…

“Hockey Stick” Moment for CVA Due to Regulatory and Accounting Rule Changes

Accounting standards changes, Basel III and the development of industry best practices for risk management and valuations have caused a “hockey stick moment” for the development of credit valuation adjustment (CVA). Dan Travers, product manager for Adaptiv and CVA solutions at SunGard, explains that CVA is a fast evolving area and the last five years…

Intel Snaps Up Fulcrum Microsystems

Intel is acquiring Fulcrum Microsystems, a developer of interconnect chips leveraged by ethernet switches, such as those from Arista Networks, IBM System Networking (Blade Network Technologies, as was) and Mellanox. While Intel’s big play is all about data centre fabrics and cloud computing, the impact on low-latency networking for the financial markets is clear, given…

Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Data Quality Imperative Underlying Recent Risk Management and Regulatory Requirements

There seems to be a recurring refrain within a whole host of recent regulatory papers, including the MiFID Review, UCITS IV, Basel III, Solvency II or any number of UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) papers: references to accuracy, consistency, timeliness, reliability and completeness of data are present in all of them. Reference Data Review speaks…

Broadridge Expands Global Proxy Services Business with Three Appointments

Broadridge Financial Solutions, today announced three senior appointments for its growing international Investor Communication Solutions business. The appointments include Naren Patel as Director and Regional Head Relationship Management, Keir Tutt as Senior Director of Customer Services, International and Jonathan Ford as Director of Sales in London. Naren Patel has recently been added to the management…

AlixPartners Appoint Rob Hornby as Managing Director

AlixPartners, the global business advisory firm, has appointed Rob Hornby as Managing Director. Hornby was formerly CIO of Old Mutual Wealth Management Group. Stefano Aversa, co-President and head of AlixPartners in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said, “Companies who are undergoing major, fast-paced changes look at ways technology can help solving their business problems,…

Teradata’s Krishna Champions Data and IT Focused Amendments to OFR’s Structure, Talks up Big Data

Data warehousing solution vendor Teradata has thrown its hat into the ring to act as a key technology partner to the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) and Dilip Krishna, vice president of financial services at the vendor, testified during last week’s government organised roundtable on systemic risk about the benefits of a big data…

Credit Suisse Strengthens Asia Pacific Global Markets Solutions Group Management And China Investment Banking Coverage

Credit Suisse today announced the appointments of Carl Bautista, Mervyn Chow and George Pavey as Co-heads of its Global Markets Solutions Group (GMSG) for Asia Pacific and the appointment of Zeth Hung as Vice Chairman of the Investment Banking Department and GMSG for Greater China. The appointments, announced today by Vikram Malhotra and Helman Sitohang,…

Misra Exits Algo Technologies

According to an email he circulated earlier today, Hirander Misra has resigned as CEO of Algo Technologies, a vendor of low-latency data management and connectivity, and matching engines. Misra gave no reason for the resignation, but said he would remain a board director and shareholder in the company. As for his immediate future, Misra said…

Black Swan Author Taleb Highlights the Potential Negative Side Effects of the OFR and Centralised Risk Management

By taking a naïve view of how to measure risk in an unpredictable market environment, the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) could potentially carry on the negative side effects of the financial crisis, according to epistemologist Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is most famous for his book on unpredictability The Black Swan. Speaking as a…